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AuDUBONiANA. Bj' John E. Thayer. (Plates III-VI.) ..... 115 



Some Audubon Letters. By George Bird Grinnell ...... 119 



More Light on Audubon's Folio Birds of America. By Samuel N. Rhoads . 130 

 The Call-Notes of Some Nocturnal Migrating Birds. By Winsor M. Tyler, 



M.D 1.32 



Bird Watching and Biological Science. By Julian S. Hitxley, B.A. . . 142 



Labrador Bird Notes. By Wells W. Cooke .... . . . 162 



Five Years Personal Notes and Observations on the Birds of Hatley, 



Stanstead County, Quebec — 1911-1915 (concluded). By H. Mousley . 168 



Additions to the Avifauna of Kerr Co., Texas. By Austin Paul Smith . 187 



New Petrels from Bermuda. By John Treadwell Nichols and Louis L. Mowbray 194 



General Notes. — The Type Locality of Uria troille, 19C>; The Pomarine Jaeger and the 

 Purple Galllnule In Western Missouri, 196; The Breeding Range of Leach's Petrel, 

 196; Barrow's Golden-eye at Wareham, Mass., 197; Lesser Snow Goose (Chen h. 

 hyperboreus) ill Massachusetts, 197; Blue Goose (Chen cmrulescens) in Maine, 197; 

 A Banded Canada Goose, 198; Two Trumpeter Swan Records for Colorado, 198; 

 King Rail (Rallns elegans) in Massachusetts in November, 198; Willets in Migration, 

 198; American Golden Plover (Charadrius d. dominicus) at Nantucket Island, 199; 

 Nest of the Alder Flycatcher on the Pocono Mt., Pa., 199; Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 

 (Empidoriax flnviventris) Breeding on the Pocono Mountain, Pa., 200; Swain.son's 

 Hawk in Illinois, 200; Nesting of the Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra minor) in Crook Co., 

 Oregon, 201; The Barn Owl (Aluco pratincola) in Massachusetts, 201; Cowbird 

 wintering in Massachusetts. 201; Another Hybrid Warbler from Northern New 

 Jersey, :i02; Cape May Warbler in Virginia in Winter, 203; The Occurrence of the 

 Wester" House Wren on Smith's Island, Northampton County, Virginia, 203; 

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

 Countv, Montana, 203; The Rose Beetle Poisonous to Young Birds, 205; A Fossil 

 Feather from Taubate, 206. 



Recent Literature. — Bryan's Natural 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 

 Minnesota, 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 Macareu.x du Kamtschatka,' 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 Phihppine 

 Economic Ornithology, 26; Collinge's 'Some Observations on the Rate of Digestion 

 in Different Groups of Wild Birds, 216; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomolog- 

 ical 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. 



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