viii Contents of Volume XXVII. 



Birds of Guiana, Vol. II, 476; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der palaark- 

 tischen Fauna.' Heft VI, 476; Ogilvie-Grant's 'A List of Brit- 

 ish Birds,' 477; Felger on the Birds of Northwestern Colorado, 

 477; Wood on Bird Migration at Point Pelee, Ontario, in the 

 Fall of 1909, 478; Jouy on the Paradise Flycatchers of Japan and 

 Korea, 478; Sclater's Revised List of the Birds of Jamaica, 479; 

 MacSwain's 'A Catalogue of the Birds of Prince Edward Island,' 

 479; Hardy's Reminiscences of Andrew Downs, 480; Beal on the 

 Relation of California Birds to the Fruit Industry, Part II, 480;" 

 McAtee's 'Plants Useful to Attract Birds and Protect Fruit,' 481; 

 Game Laws for 1910, 481; Publications Received, 481. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Possessive Form for Personal Bird Names, 483. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 484; William Earl Dodge Scott, 

 486. Continuation of 'Life Histories of North American Birds,' 

 488; Bird Conservation, 490; International Bird Protection, 490; 

 The Mary Dutcher Memorial Fund, 490; Bryant and Palmer's 

 explorations in Java, 491; Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle 

 America,' Part V, and ' Nomenclature of Colors,' 491; Trafton's 

 ' Methods of Attracting Birds,' 491; Twenty-eighth Stated Meet- 

 ing of the American Ornithologist's Union, 491. 



Index 493 



Contents of Volume .... . . . . . iii 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plates. 



Plate I. Islands at Watcheshoo Labrador, nesting sites for Great Black- 

 backed Gulls and Eiders; Piashte-bai River and Lake. 



" II. Nesting Hole of Puffin; Nest of Eider Duck. 



" III. Nests of Pigeon Hawk. 



" IV. Nest of Palm-Leaf Oriole. 



" V. Fan Palms showing Hooded Orioles' Nests. 



" VI. Nests and Eggs of King Rail. 



" VII. Porti-ait of James Cushing Merrill. 



" VIII. Portrait of Charles Aldrich. 



" IX. Portrait of R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



" X. Young White Pelicans. 



" XL Nest of Canada Goose; Nest of Mallard. 



" XII. Nest of Long-billed Curlew; Nest of Common Tern. 



" XIII-XIV. Nests of Black-throated Green Warbler. 



" XV. Royal Terns. 



" XVI. Black Skimmer and young Least Terns. 



" XVII. Florida Cormorant and Florida Gallinule. 



" XVIII. Nest of Henslow's Sparrow; nest of Grasshopper Sparrow. 



" XIX and XX. Rare Wild Ducks wintering at Boston, Mass. 



Text-cuts. 



Map of Colorado 143 



Map showing dispersal of young Black-crowned Night Herons from 



colony at Barnstable, Mass 162 



Map showing dispersal of young Black-crowned Night Herons from 



colony near Washington, D. C 163 



