CONTENTS 



The Lake Crescent Region, Olympic Mountains, Washington, with Notes '*^°^ 



Regarding its Avifauna. By Samuel F. Rathbun. (Plates XIX-XXI ) 

 Migration of the Yellow-billed Loon. By Joseph Dixon 

 Notes on Some Maine Birds. By Arthur H. Norton 

 Notes on Some Spring Birds of La Plata. By Roland F. Hussey 



''''rLrcA^"^B^y^0^.^7/ariK:.\!^^°^ '^^.^^''^•. '^'^^^'^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ N— 

 The Birds of Vieques Island, Porto Rico. By Alexander Wetmore 

 The Saw-whet Owl of the Queen Charlotte Islands. By J. H. Fleming 

 A New Form of Chloephaga hybrida. By John C. Phillips 



'^''^1.?^^ ';!!..™P ^- °- ^- Check-List of North American Birds proposed 

 since the Publication of the Sixteenth Supplement 



357 

 370 

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400 

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425 



General Notes.— Concerning the Occurrence of the Western and other Gulls in South 

 eastern Alaska, 432; A Note on the Mottled Duck, 432; An Overload Specimen 



YVrk''c^tr4''3'3''T rBia1.?Ri?Prr^' '^'^''"'''"^ ^^'•^"«^ '^ Van ConlancrPa^k, New 

 lorKL^ity 4tici, 1 he Black Rail (CV('cisc«s^a7«aicensi.s) at Chicago 111 4SS- Parlv 

 Flight of Wilson's Snipe in Massachxisetts, 434; Eskimo CuS hi Massachusetts^ 

 f !rl ^A^^"" °n *^'' Nesting of the Valley Quail, 434; Incubation Period oftSorned 

 Lark 435; Crows Destroying Quail, 435; Cassins Sparrow in Colorado 435 lunoo 

 Breeding at West Quincy, Ma.ss., 436; Multiple Nest of the yXw Warbler^B 

 Warbler Notes from Rhincbeck, N. Y., 436; Mockingbird {MimuTpolu2uos voln- 

 glottos)ui Wayne County, Michigan, 437; The Caroluia Wren in the MaC Wilder 

 Siui^ity'^n Birdr4m'^'""""' '^"^ ^"'^^ "'"^ Accessor^ ^^i*n'^glii^'' Sd^ 



Recent Literature.— Chubb's 'The Birds of British Guiana,' 440- Chapman's 'The 

 Travels of Birds,' 441 ; Sawyers "Land Birds of Northern New York '44^ SiLmer 

 B rds of the Douglas Lake Region, Mich., 442; An Index to 'Bird-Lore ' 44?^ A 

 Bibliography of British Ornithology, 443 Todd on Dysithamnus mentalts 44^ 

 C erne on New Neotropical Birds, 444; Cory on New South aSc™i Birds' ^t' 

 Riley on New Ralliformes, 445; Mathews' 'Birds of Australia ' 445 Buturlhi's 

 S?y^^ °i""!.N"thatcheS;^ 445; Dabbene on Argentine Coots'and Grebes 446 

 Birds in Relation to the Dissemination of Mistletoes in the United States 446^ 

 Further Data on the Spread of the Chestnut-blight Fungus 447 Economfc'Orrd' 

 Prei??yt°on''l50^'' T.rn?^'-?^' Publications, 44I; Publilalions 6n BM and Gam^ 

 o^li^Tol^r''.^ls%%-,^l'^^^^^^^^ ^'^■' O-ithological Articles in 



Correspondence. — Present Work of Gerhard Heilmann, 457. 



Notes and News.-- Obituaries: John Alexander Harvie-Brown 458- Lindsev Louin 

 nnTk^^H^'R-^."^^ S^^'^,^ ^'?°d' 459; Col. Herbert Hastings Harr'inS 460 Lt 

 R^li^^Y"^ •^°,''*'^* Horsbrugh, 460; Treaty with Canada for Bird Preiervation'460-' 

 Ornithological Collection of the Carnegie Museum, 461; Thirty-fourth Stated 

 Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 46L imrty lourtn htatea 



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