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Field Notes on Some Long Island Shore Birds. By John Treadwell 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 



The Breeding of the Prairie Horned Lark at Hatley, Stanstead County, 



Quebec. By H. Mousley . . . . . . ' . . . . 281 



Notes on the Eider. By Johan Beetz. Translated from the French and Anno- 

 tated by Charles W. Townsend, M.D. (Plate XV.) 286 



Notes on the Birds of the Elk Mountain Region, Gunnison County, Colo- 

 rado. By Edward R. Warren. (Plates XVI-XVIII.) . . ... 292 



General Notes. — Recent Occurrence of Iceland Gulls near New York, 318; The 

 Arctic Tern in Central New York, 319; American Merganser wintering at Boston, 

 Mass., 319; Tlie European Widgeon in Central New York, 320; Liinicolis at Porto 

 Rico in July, 320; Krider's Hawk (Buteo horealis krideri) in Alaska. 321; The Type 

 Locality of Colaptes cafer. 322; The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in New Mexico. 324; 

 Evening Grosbeak at Williamsport, Pa., 325; Evening Grosbeak at Rochester, N. Y., 

 325; Evening Grosbeak at Lowville, N. Y., 325; The Calaveras Warbler in Colorado, 

 325; The Catbird in Winter in Massachusetts, 325; Breeding of tlie Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 326; A Record of Towusend's Solitaire 

 (Myadestes townsendi), 327; Regular Breeding of Alice's Thrush in Arctic East 

 Siberia, 327; Some Unusual Records for Massachusetts, 328; Bird Notes from the 

 Chicago Area, 328; Notes from Leon Co., Florida, 329. 



Recent Literature. — Ridgway's ' The Birds of North and Middle America,' Part VII, 

 331; Todd's 'Birds of the Isle of Pines,' 332; Wetmore's 'Birds of Porto Rico,' 333; 

 Hersey's 'List of Birds Observed in Alaska and Siberia,' 335; Brooks' Notes on 

 Birds from East Siberia and Arctic Alaska,' 335; 'The Birds of Austraha,' 336; 

 Cassinia, 1915, 336; Bangs on New American Birds, 336; Swarth on the Pacific 

 Coast Races of Bewick's Wren, 337; Murphy and Harper on New Diving Petrels, 

 337; Chapin on the Pennant- winged Niglitjar, 337; Bangs pn Birds from the Cay- 

 man Islands, 338; Cherrie on New South Anierican Birds, 338; Todd on New 

 Neotropical Birds, 339; Forbush on The Domestic Cat, 339; The Official List of 

 Generic Names, 339; Aves of the Zoological Record 1914, 340; Recent Papers by 

 Hartert, 340; White on the Birds of Interior South Austraha, 341; Life of Teget- 

 meier, 340; Recent Publications on Bird and Game Protection, 341; The Dis- 

 semination of Virginia Creeper Seeds by English Sparrows, 342; The Ornithological 

 • Journals, 342; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 347; Publications Received, 

 349. 



Correspondence. — The Significance of the Osteological Characters of the Chionides, 

 352. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Wells W. Cooke, 354; Sven Magnus Gronberger, 355; 

 J. Parker Norris, 355; American Museum Expedition to South America, 356; 

 Personal Notes: Harry S. Swarth, 356; Francis Harper, 356. 



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