Contents of Volume XXIII. 



NUMBER III. 



Some Light on Night Migration. By Witmer Stone . . 249 

 Nesting of the Great Blue Heron in Montana. By E. S. 



Cameron. (Plates IV and V.) 252 



The Catalina Island Quail. By Joseph Grinnell . . . 262 

 Isolation versus Natural Selection. By Leonhard Stejneger 265 

 Some Notes on Indiana Birds. By Amos W. Butler . . 271 

 List of the Birds of Louisiana. Part II. Preliminary Sketch, 



Concluded. By George E. Beyer, Andrew Allison, and H. H. 



Kopman . ........ 275 



Unusual Abundance of the Snowy Owl (Nyctea nyctea). By 



Ruthven Deane ......... 283 



A Bibliography and Nomenclator of the Ornithological 



Works of John James Audubon. By Witmer Stone . . 298 

 Notes on Some Northern Birds. By Rev. C. W. G. Eifrig . 313 

 Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer 



F. Baird. By Ruthven Deane ...... 318 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Masked Duck in Maryland, 335; Southeastern 'Michigan Records, 

 335; Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa hwmastica) in Ontario, 335; The 

 European Turnstone in Massachusetts, 335; A Ruffed Grouse 

 near Camden, South Carolina, 336; Note on the Crop Contents of 

 a Nestling Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura), 336; Long- 

 eared Owls resident at Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., 337; Nest 

 of Saw-whet Owl at Bridgewater, Mass., 337; Uranomitra salvini 

 in Arizona, 337; Nesting of Crossbills in Nova Scotia, 339; Breed- 

 ing of the Savanna Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis savanna) 

 in Southern New Jersey, 340; Bachman's Finch in Montgomery 

 County, Virginia, 341; The Rough-winged Swallow and Duck 

 Hawk near Springfield, Mass., 341; Occurrence of the Titlark 

 (Anthus pensylvanicus) in Maine, in Spring, 341; The Titlark at 

 Portland, Maine, in Spring, 342; The Carolina Chickadee in 

 Southern Michigan, 342; A Great Flight of Robins and Cedar- 

 birds, 342; Chuck-will's-widow and Mockingbird in Ontario, 343; 

 Wayne County, Michigan, Notes, 344; Notes from Connecticut, 

 344; The Shedding of the Stomach Lining by Birds, 346; Vir- 

 ginia Creeper as a Winter Food for Birds, 346; The Michigan 

 Ornithological Club, 346. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Buturlin's 'The Breeding-grounds of the Rosy Gull,' 348; Clarke's 

 'Birds of the South Orkney Islands,' 350; Menegaux and Hell- 

 mayr on the Passeres Tracheophones of the Paris Museum, 351; 

 Shelley's 'The Birds of Africa,' 353; Nash's 'Check-List of the 

 Birds of Ontario,' 353; 'An Ecological Survey of Northern Michi- 

 gan,' 354. 



