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 Additional Notes on the Birds of Labrador. Bv Charles W. Toivnsend, M. D., 



and A. C. Bent. (Plates I-III.) 1 



One Hundred Breeding Birds of an Illinois Ten-mile Radius. By Isaac E. 



Hess . . ■ . ." . . 19 



The Palm-l?;af Oriole. By Florence Merriam Bailey. (Plates IV and V.) . . 33 



Some Winter Birds of the Season 190S-9 in Wayne County, Michigan, By /. 



Claire Wood 36 



Audubon's Labrador Trip of 1833. By Ruthven Deane 42 



A Winter of Rare Birds at Ottawa, Ontario. , By G. Eifrig .... 53 



Two New Subspecies of North American Birds. By Louis B. Bishop, M. D. • . 59 



The Increase of Austral Birds at Ithaca. By Albert H. Wright and Arthur A. 



Allen 63 



Notes on Some Ohio Birds. By W. F. Henninger. (Plate VI.) .... 66 



Twenty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



John H. Sage . '> 69 



General Notes. ^ The Brown Pelican in Illinois, 75; A New Bird for Illinois, 76; The 

 Black Duck Summering near Philadelphia, 75; Ducks at Monroe, Michigan, 76; A 

 Small Flight of Gadwalls (Chauhlasmus streperus) near New York, 77; An Albino 

 Duck, 78; Snow Geese in Franiinfiiiam, Mass., 78; Another Swan for Maine, 78; The 

 Wood Ibis {Mycteria americana) in the Mountains of North earolina, 79; An Egret in 

 Rhode Island, 79; Capture of the Northern Phalarope near Springfield, Mass., 79; A 

 Recent Record for the Eskimo Curlew, 79; Pinnated Grouse in Southern Canada, 79; 

 Golden Eagle taken in West Florida, 80; The Osprey a Breeder on the Catawba River, 

 near Morganton, North Carolina, 80; A New Name for Psephotus multicolor, 80; Fork- 

 tailed Flycatcher in Maine, 80; The Bobolink at Philadelphia, Pa., and Vicinity in 

 Summer and Autumn, 81; Regular Summer Crossbills at Itliaca, N. Y., 83; Breeding 

 of the White-throated Sparrow in Yates County, N. Y., 83; The Grasshopper Sparrow 

 in Ontario, 84; The Cerulean Warbler {Dcndroica cerulea) Breeding in Burke County, 

 N. C, 84; Tlie Orange-crowned Warbler in New Jersey Again, 85; Warbhng Song of 

 the Hudsonian Chickadee, 86; Finding of Three Rare Nests in New JerseJ^ 87; Concern- 

 ing Three alleged "Erroneous Georgia Records," 88; Purple Gallinule, Sabjne's Gull, 

 and other Rare Birds in Quebec, 89; Colorado Notes, 89; Birds of Central Alberta, 

 89; Two Additions to the Avifauna of South CaroUna, 90; Recent Albinos from Illinois 

 and Michigan, 91; Destruction of Young Water Birds by a Storm, 92; The Tagging of 

 Nesting Birds, 92; Two additional Copper-plates of the Folio Edition of Audubon's 

 'Birds of America,' 93. 



Recent Literature. — Sharpe's Hand-List of Birds, 93; Stone's ' The Birds of New Jersey,' 

 95; G. M. Allen's List of the Birds of New England, 97; Osgood's 'Biological Investi- 

 gations in Alaska and Yukon Territory,' 97; Seton'on the Mammals and Birds of Mani- 

 toba, 98; Cory's "The Birds of the Leeward Islands,' 99; Fisher on the Economic 

 Value of Predaceous Birds and Mammals, 100; Beebe on the Breeding of Canada Geese 

 in Captivity, 100; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Arachnothera magna, 101 ; Macpherson's 

 'The Home-Life of a Golden Eagle,' 101; Whymper's 'Egyptian Birds,' 102; Job's 

 'The Sport of Bird Study,' 102; Verrill on the Birds of San Domingo, 103; G. B. 

 Grinnell on the Wild Turkey, 104; Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey, 1909, 104; Fifth Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, 106; Macoun's 'Catalogue of Canadian 'Birds,' 107; Publications Received, 

 ■ 109. 

 Notes ani) News. — The Fifth International Ornithological Congress, HI ; The Collection 

 of Birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, 111; Additions to^the 

 Collection of Birds in tlie Museum of Comparative Zoology, 111: Additions to the 

 Collection of Birds in the American Museum of Natural History, 111; The Worthen 

 Collection of Birds, 112; Offer of an Award for the Discovery of the Nest of a Passenger 

 Pigeon, 112. 



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