Contents of Volume XXVII. 



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 Investigations in Alaska and Yukon Territory,' 97; 

 Seton on the Mammals and Birds of Manitoba, 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 

 Arachnathera magna, 101 ; McPherson's ' The Home-Life of a Gold- 

 en 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 Re- 

 port of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 106; 

 Macoun's 'Catalogue of Canadian Birds,' 107; Publications Re- 

 .ceived, 109. 



NOTES AND 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 the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology, 111; Additions to the Collection of Birds in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 111; The Worthen Col- 

 lection of Birds, 112; Offer of an Award for the Discovery of the 

 Nest of a Passenger Pigeon, 112. 



NUMBER II. 



Page 

 In Memoriam: James Cushing Merrill. By William Brewster. 



(Plate VII.) ■ ... 113 



In Memoriam: Charles Aldrich. By Ruthven Deane. (Plate 



VIII.) 119 



Richard Bowdler Sharpe. By J. ^. Allen. (Plate IX.) . . 124 

 Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds of Washtenaw Coxjntt, 



Michigan. By N. A. Wood and A. D. Tiiiker . . .129 



Bird Notes from Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. By 



Edward E. Warren 142 



An Apparently New Species of Carrion Hawk of the Genus 



Ihycter. By William E. D. Scott 152 



The Tagging of Wild Birds: Report of Progress in 1909. By 



Leon J. Cole .......... 153 



A List of Birds observed at Ashland, Virginia. By G. C. Em- 

 body 169 



The Courtships of Golden-eye and Eider Ducks. By Charles 



W. Toivnsend, M.D 177 



Notes on the Florida Gallinule in Philadelphia County, Pa. 



By Richard F. Miller 181 



Birds observed in Saskatchewan during the Summer of 1909. 



By John F. Ferry. (Plates X-XII.) 185 



