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Crook Co., Oregon, 201; The Barn Owl (Aluco pratincola) in Massa- 

 chusetts, 201; Cowbird wintering in Massachusetts, 201; Another 

 Hybrid Warbler from Northern New Jersey, 202; Cape May Warbler 

 in Virginia in Winter, 203; The Occurrence of the Western House 

 Wren on Smith's Island, Northampton County, Virginia, 203; Bick- 

 nell's Thrush in Northeastern Illinois, 203; Additions to the Birds of 

 Custer County, Montana, 203 ; The Rose Beetle Poisonous to Young 

 Birds, 205; A Fossil Feather from Taubatc, 206. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Bryan's National History of Hawaii, 207; The B. O. U. Jubilee Supplement 

 to 'The Ibis,' No. 2,209; Chapin on New Birds from the Belgian Congo, 

 210; Oberholser on Races of the Crested Tern, 210; Riley on a New 

 Hazel Grouse, 211 ; McGregor on a New Prionochilus, 211 ; Chapman 

 on New Colombian Birds, 211; Coale on the Birds of Lake County, 

 111., 212; Roberts' 'Winter Bird-Life of Minne.sota,' 212; Kellogg and 

 Grinnell on the Mammals and Birds of Trinity, Siskiyou, and Shasta 

 Cos., Cal., 212; Lincoln's 'The Birds of Yuma County, Colorado,' 213; 

 Witherby's Report on the 'British Birds' Marking Scheme, 213; 

 Recent Papers by Van Oort, 213; Didier's 'Le Macareux du Kamt- 

 schatka,' 214; Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for 1915, 214; Recent Bird Biographies by Miss Stanwood, 

 214; Washburn's 'Further Observations on Minnesota Birds,' 215; 

 Recent Papers on Bird and Game Protection, 215; A Beginning of 

 Philippine Economic Ornithology, 26; CoUinge's 'Some Observations 

 on the Rate of Digestion in Different Groups of Wild Birds,' 216; 

 Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 216; 

 The Ornithological Journals, 218; Ornithological Articles in Other 

 Journals, 223; Publications Received, 214. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 Membership in the A. O. U., 227; Methods of Recording Bird Song, 228. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituaries: Daniel Giraud Elliot, 230; Henry Eeles Dresser, 232; William 

 Charlesworth Levey, 233; Leslie Waldo Lake, 233; Ornithological 

 Activities of 1816, 233; Mr. Beebe's Demarara Expedition, 234; The 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 235; Museum of Comparative 

 Oology, 235; 'Blue-Bird,' 235; The Annual Meeting of the A. O. U. 

 at Philadelphia, 235. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 



Yield Notes on Some Long Island Shore Birds. By John Tread- 

 well Nichols and Francis Harper. (Plates VII-XIII.) . . 237 



Bird-watching and Biological Science. By Julian S. Huxley, 



B.A 256 



Anatid.e op South Georgia. By Robert Cushman Murphy. 



(Plate XIV.) 270 



The Classification of the Scoters. By W. DeW. Miller . . 278 



