Contents of Volume XXVII. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A Parasitic Jaeger near Ottawa, Ontario, 204; European Widgeon 

 {Mareca penelope) in Florida, 204; Two Records of the Golden- 

 eye at De Funiak Springs, Florida, 205; Nesting of the Black 

 Duck in Yates County, N. Y., 205; A Bittern taken in West 

 Florida, 205; Northern Phalarope in Bladen County, North 

 Carolina, 206; Wilson's Snipe Wintering near Boston, Mass., 

 206; Another Golden Eagle taken in West Florida, 206; Another 

 Pigeon Hawk in Maine in Winter, 207; Further Notes on the 

 Occurrence of the Pigeon Hawk in Winter near Portland, Maine, 

 207; Barn Owl in Colorado, 207; Snowy Owl in Yates County, 

 N. Y., 207; Bubo virginianus occidentalis in Michigan, 208; Tur- 

 key Vulture in Northern Steuben County, N. Y., 208; The Last 

 Passenger Pigeon in Wayne County, Michigan, 208; Carolina 

 Parakeet {Conurus carolinensis) , 209; Acadian Flycatcher in 

 Ontario, 209; Magpie in Knox County, Indiana, 210; A Correc- 

 tion: A New Bird for the United States, 210; A Migration of 

 Longspurs over Chicago on December 13, 1909, 210; Winter 

 Migration at Night, 211; The Seaside Sparrow on Cape Cod, 

 Massachusetts, in Winter, 211 ; Further Notes on the Lark Sparrow 

 in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 211; A Chipping Sparrow in late 

 December at Boston, Mass., 211; Cerulean Warbler {Dendroica 

 certdea) in Northern New Jersey, 212; A Wintering Brown 

 Thrasher in Northern New Jersey, 212; A Carolina Wren in New 

 London County, Conn., 213; Wilson's Thrush {Hylocichla fus- 

 cescens) a common Breeder near Allegheny, Pa., 213; Concerning 

 Three Erroneous Georgia Records, 213; Birds of Central Alberta, 

 214; Breeding Records from Southern Illinois, 216; Notes from 

 Eastern Ohio, 216; New Records for the State of Washington, 217; 

 Some Rare Occurrences in Yates County, N. Y., 218; Notes from 

 Boulder County, Colorado, 218; Massachusetts Notes, 219; Bird 

 Notes from Springfield, Mass., and Vicinity, 221; Another Tagged 

 Bird heard from, 221. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Thayer on Concealing Coloration in Animals, 222; Howard's The 

 British Warblers,' Part IV, 225; Reed and Wright on the Birds of 

 Cayuga Lake Basin, N. Y., 226; Beebe on the 'Ecology of the 

 Hoatzin,' 227; Beebe on Birds of Northeastern Venezuela, 227; 

 Report on the Immigration of Summer Residents in England and 

 Wales in the Spring of 1908, 228; L. H. Miller on California Fossil 

 Birds, 228; Ticehurst's 'A History of the Birds of Kent,' 230; J. 

 Grinnell on New North American Birds, 232; Beebe on the Tail 

 Feathers of the Motmot, 234; 'Cassinia,' 235; J. Grinnell on the 

 Birds of the Prince William Sound Region, Alaska, 236; McGre- 

 gor's 'A Manual of Philippine Birds,' 237; Publications Received, 

 238. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Henry Hilly er GiglioH, 240; John Farwell Ferry, 240. The 

 Kuser Asiatic Expedition, 241; Twentieth Anniversary of the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 242; Efforts to Discover 

 Surviving Representatives of the Passenger Pigeon, 243; De- 

 struction of Sea Birds by Japanese Poachers, 243. 



