Contents of Volume XXIII. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary; Emile Oustelet, 355; Victor Fatio, 356; George F. Bren- 

 inger, 356; La Rue K. Holmes, 356; J. H. Batty, 356; Frank J. 

 Thompson, 357; California Academy of Sciences, 358; The Cat 

 Question in Australia, 358; New Bird Books, 359. 



NUMBER IV. 



Some Unpublished Letters of Alexander Wilson and John 



Abbot. By Witmer Stone ....... 361 



Ornithological Notes from Western Mexico and the Tres 



Marias and Isabella Islands. By H. H. Bailey. (Plates VI 



and VII.) 369 



The West Indian Black Forms of the Genus Coereba. By Austin 



H. Clark 392 



Birds Observed in the Florida Keys. By Henry W. Fowler . 396 

 A-Birding in an Auto. By Milton S. Ray . . . . 400 

 Notes on Birds of Silver City, New Mexico. By John T. 



Sharpless Hunn ......... 418 



Concerning the Thick-billed Parrot. By W . H. Bergtold . 425 

 Change of Location of a Crow Roost. By Chreswell J. Hunt 429 

 Nesting Habits of the Green Heron. By Irene G. Wheelock. 



(Plate VIII.) .... 432 



Birds of Toronto, Ontario. Part I, Water Birds. By James 



H. Fleming . 437 



The Spring Moult of Larus atricilla Linn. By William Beebe. 



(Plate IX.) 454 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The American Egret (Herodias egretta) in the Catskill Mountains, 457; 

 A Second Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax violaceus) at 

 Portland, Me., 457; A Late Spring Record for the Yellow Rail 

 (Porzana noveboracensis) in Massachusetts, with Remarks on the 

 'Ornithological Mystery,' 457; The White-rumped Sandpiper in 

 Wayne Co., Mich., 458; An Eskimo Curlew Captured at Sea, 459; 

 Contents of the Crop and Gizzard of a Young Ruffed Grouse, 459; 

 Swallow-tailed Flycatcher (Muscivora forficata) in New Bruns- 

 wick, 460; Nests and Eggs of the Beardless Flycatcher (Ornithion 

 imberbe), 460; The Prairie Horned Lark a Summer Resident in 

 Connecticut, 461; The Bobolink in Colorado, 461; Probable 

 Breeding of the White-throated Sparrow in Connecticut, 461 ; The 

 Towhee Nesting in Bushes, 462; The Rough-winged Swallow 

 (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) Breeding near Springfield, Mass., 463; 

 The Water-Thrush (Seiurus noveboracensis) Nesting in Rhode 

 Island, 463; A Robin's Nest without Mud, 464; The Birds of 

 Wyoming: Some Corrections, 464. 



