CONTENTS. 



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 In Memoriam: James Gushing Merrill. By William Brewster. (Plate VII.) . 113 

 In Memoriam: Charles Aldrich. By Ruthven Deane. (Plate VIII.) . . 119 

 Richard BowDLER Sharpe. By J . A . Allen . (Plate IX.) 124 



Notes on Some of the Rarer Birds of Washtenaw County, Michigan. By 



N . A. Wood and A. D. Tinker 129 



Bird Notes from Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. By Edward R. Warren . 142 



An Apparently New Species of Carrion Hawk of the Genus Ibycter. 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. Embody . . . 169 



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



M.D 177 



Notes on the Florida Gallinule in Philadelphia Countv, Pa. By Richard F. 



Miller 181 



Birds -observed in Saskatchewan di^ring the Summer of 1909. Bv John F. 



Ferry. (Plates X-Xll.) 1S5 



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

 Passenger Pigeon in Wayne County, Michigan, 208; Carolina Parakeet (Conurus caro- 

 linensis), 209; Acadian Flycatcher in Ontario, 209; Magpie in Knox County, Indiana, 

 210; A Correction: 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 cerulea) 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 fuscescens) a common 

 Breeder near Allegheny, Pa., 213; Concerning Three Erroneous Georgia Records, 213; 

 Birds of Central Alberta, 214; Breeding Records from Southern IlUnois, 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 CaUfornia Fossil Birds, 

 228; Tlcehurst'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 WiUiam Sound Region, Alaska, 236; McGregor's 

 'A Manual of Phihppine Birds,' 237; Publications Received, 238. ' 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 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; Destruction of Sea Birds by Japanese Poachers, 243. 



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