Contents of Volume XXVII. vli 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Alexander O'DriscoU Taylor, 363. Date of 1910 Meet- 

 ing of the American Ornithologists' Union, 364; The New A. O. 

 U. Check -List, 364; An Endowment for Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 364; Mr. William Dutcher, an A. O. U. Delegate to the Fifth 

 International Ornithological Congress, 365; The Roosevelt Smith- 

 sonian Expedition to British East Africa, 365; New Publications, 

 366; Passage of the New York State Plumage Bill, 367; Mrs. 

 Russell Sage'.s Gift for Bird Protection, 368. 



NUMBER IV. 



Page 

 The Canvas-back in Massachusetts. By S. Prescott Fay . . 369 

 Notes on the Birds of the Sunken Lands of Southeastern Mis- 

 souri. By Arthur H. Howell ....... 381 



A Series of Nests of the Magnolia Warbler. By Cordelia J. 



Stanwood .......... 384 



Some Rare Wild Ducks Wintering at Boston, Massachusetts, 



1909-1910. By Horace W. Wright. (Plates XIX and XX.) . 390 

 A Hermit Thrush Study. By Norman McClintock . . . 409 

 Wild Life of an Alkaline Lake. By Florence Merriam Bailey 418 

 Some Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon. By Albert 



Hazen Wright 428 



The Brewster's Warbler in Massachusetts. By Julia Win- 

 gate Sherman .......... 443 



The Little Gull, Larus minutus Pall., in Maine, with Remarks 

 on its Distribution, and its Occurrence in America. By 

 Arthur H. Norton 447 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Red-billed Tropic-bird in Arizona, 450; Status of the Black 

 Duck {Anas rubripes) in Colorado, 451; The Blue-winged Teal 

 in Cuba in Summer, 452; The Turnstone at Grosse Isle, Michigan, 

 452; A Massachusetts Record for the White-tailed Kite, 453; 

 Notes on the Bald Eagle in Georgia, 454; Hawk Owl {Surnia 

 uhda caparoch) in Michigan, 454; The Snowy Owl (Nyctea 

 nyctea) taken in South Carolina, 455; Nesting Colonies of the 

 Green-crested Flycatcher and Parula Warbler, Past and Present, 

 455; An Albinistic White-throated Sparrow, 4.57; Supposed Nest- 

 ing of the Pine-woods and Bachman's Sparrows in Chatham 

 County, Georgia, 457; Nesting of Passer herb ulus henslowi 

 henslowi on Grosse Isle, Michigan, 458; The Impaling Instinct in 

 Shrikes, 459; Petrochclidon fulva pallida in Texas, 459; The 

 Bank Swallow at Savannah, Georgia, 460; The Mockingbird near 

 Boston, 460; The Wood Thrush in Newbury, Vermont, 461; 

 The Hermit Thrush Breeding in Litchfield County, Connecticut, 

 461; Notes from Grosse Isle, Michigan, 462; Notes from Con- 

 necticut, 462; Seven Erroneous South and North Carolina 

 Records, 464. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds, 466; Wayne's 'Birds 

 of South Carolina,' 472; Scott's Ornithology of Patagonia, Part 

 II, 474; A Biography of William MacGiliivray, 474; Penard's 



