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

 Notes on the Birds of the Sunken Lands of Southeastern Missouri. By 



Arthur H. Howell 381 



A Series OF Nests OF THE Magnolia Warbler. 'By Cordelia J. Stamoood . . 384 

 Some Rare Wild Ducks Wintering at Boston, Massachusetts, 1909-1910. 



By Horace W. Wright. (Plates XIX and XX.) ..'.... 390 



A Hermit Thrush Studt. By Norman McClinlock ...... 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 Wingate Sherman . 443 

 The Little Gull, Larus minutus Pall., in Maine, with Remarks on its Distri- 

 bution, and its Occurrence in America. Hy Arthur H. Norton . . . 447 



General Notes. — The Red-billed Tropic-bird in Arizona, 450; Status of the Black 

 Duck {Anas rubripes) in Colorado, 4.51; 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 ulula 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 Albmistic White-tliroated Sparrow, 457; 

 Supposed Nesting of the Pine-woods and Bachman's Sparrows in Chatham County, 

 Georgia, 457; Nesting of Passerherbulus henslowi henslowi on Grosse Isle, Michigan, 

 458; The Impaling Instinct in Shrikes, 459; Petrochelidon fulva pallida in Texas, 

 459; The Bank Swallow at Savannah, Georgia, 460; The Mockingbird near Bo.ston, 

 460; The Wood Thrush in Newbury, Vermont, 461; The Hermit Thrush Breeding 

 in Litchfield Comity, Connecticut, 461; Notes from Grosse Isle, Michigan, 462; 

 Notes from Connecticut, 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 MacGillivray, 474; Penard's Birds of Guiana, Vol. II, 

 476; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der paliiarktischen Faima.' Heft VI, 476; Ogilvie- 

 Grant's 'A List of British Birds,' 477; Felger on the Birds of Northwestern Colo- 

 rado. 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 Cahfornia Birds to the Fruit Industry, Part II, 480; McAtee's 'Plants 

 Useful to Attract Birds and Protect Fruit,' 481; Game Laws for 1910, 481; Publi- 

 cations Received, 481. 



Correspondence. — The Possessive Form for Personal Bird Nam.es, 483. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Henry Hillyer Giglioli, 484; WilUam Earl Dodge Scott, 

 486. Continuation of 'Life Histories of North American Birds', 488; Bird Conserva- 

 tion, 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 Meeting of the American 

 Ornithologist's Union, 491. 



Index 493 



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