C O N T E N T S. 



List of the Birds of Louisiana. By Geo. E. Bower, Andrew Allison, and Henry 



H. Kopman ............ .1 



Some Breeding Warblers of Desmarest, N. J. By B. S. Bowdish ... 16 

 Autumn Warbler Hunting. By J. Claire Wood ....... 20 



Status and Plumages of the White-winged Gulls of the Genus Larus. By 



Jonathan Dicight, Jr.. M. D 26 



Notes on the Winter Birds of Hancock County, Mississippi. By Andrew 



Allison .44 



Notes on the Screech Owl. By P. T. Coolidge ....... 48 



A Contribution to the Ornithology of South Carolina, chiefly the Coasi 



Region. By Arthur T. Wayne 56 



, The Feather Tracts of Swifts and Hummingbirds. By Hubert Lyman Clark . 68 

 Twenty-third Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. By John H . 



Sage 92 



General Notes. — Leach's Petrel inland in Massachusetts, 97; The name of the Western 

 Sandpiper, 97; Additional American Records of the Ruff, 98; Prolific Duck Hawks, 99; 

 A Northern Record for the Swallow-tailed Kite {Elanoides forficatus) in Wisconsin, 100; 

 Three Michigan Records, 100; Another Large Flight of Snowy Owls, 100; The Downy 

 Woodpecker, 101 ; Breeding of the Prairie Horned Lark in Eastern Massachusetts, 101 ; 

 Moult of the Snowflake (Passerina nivalis), 102; The Redpoll Breeding on the Magdalen 

 Islands, 102; Nesting of the Junco in Eastern Massachusetts, 103; Possible Breeding of 

 Junco hyemalis in Essex County, Mass., 103; The Lark Sparrow in Massachusetts, 103; 

 A male Golden-winged Warbler (Hdminthophila ehrysopttra) Mated with a female Blue- 

 winged Warbler (Helminthophila pinus) at Bethel, Conn., 104: The Cape May Warbler 

 in Litchfield County, Conn., 105; A third Record for the Prairie Warbler in Canada, 

 105; The Carolina Wren a Summer Resident of Ontario, 105; First Capture of Town- 

 send's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) on Long Island, New York, 105; Two Birds New 

 to the Avifauna of Kansas, 106; Some More Michigan Records, 106; Some Nebraska 

 Bird Notes, 108; Should Bird Protection Laws and their Enforcement be in the Hands 

 of the National Government? 109. 



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Recent Literature. — Stejneger's 'The Birds of the Genus Cinclus and their Geographical 

 Distribution, 111; Scott 'On the Probable Origin of Certain Birds,' 112; Clark's 'Birds 

 of the Southern Lesser Antilles,' 113: Oberholser's 'A Monograph of the Genus Dendro- 

 cincla Gray,' 114; Beebe's 'The Ostriches and their Allies,' 114; Beebe's 'Two Bird 

 Lovers in Mexico,' 115; Hantzsch's Birds of Iceland, 115; Csorgey's Ornithological 

 Fragments from the Manuscripts of Johann Salamon von Petgnyi, 116; Harvie- 

 Brown's 'Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe,' 117; Wytsman's 'Genera 

 Avium,' 118; 'Ootheca Wolleyana,' 118; Economic Ornithology, 119. 



Correspondence. — On the Criticism of Heft III of 'Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna,' 

 120; Subgenera, and other Matters, 122. 



Notes and News. — A proposed New Edition of the A. O. U. Check-List, and Revision of 

 the A. O. U. Code of Nomenclature, 125; Report of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, 126; The Aviaries of the New York Zoological Society, 127; Announcements 

 of New Ornithological Publications, 128; The Batty Collection of Mexican Birds, 128. 



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