Contents of Volume XXIII. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Audubon's Shearwater and Peale's Petrel Breeding in Bermuda, 217; 

 The Water Turkey and Tree Ducks near Tucson, Arizona, 217; 

 An Arctic Record for the American White Pelican, 218; Unusual 

 Nesting Site of the Black Duck (Anas obscura), 218; Lesser Snow 

 Geese in Michigan and Ontario, 219; The Yellow-crowned Night 

 Heron near Toronto, 220; The Red Phalarope (Crymophilus fuli- 

 carius) a new Bird for the Kansas List, 220; The European Lap- 

 wing on Long Island, N. Y., 221; Occurrence of the Lapwing 

 (Vanellus vanellus) and the Turkey Buzzard (Cathartes aura) in 

 Newfoundland, 221; The Black Vulture again in Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, 222; Exceptional Eggs of the Bald Eagle (Haliceetus leu- 

 cocephalus), 222; Richardson's Owl in Eastern Massachusetts, 

 222; Great Gray Owl f (Scotiaptex cinerea) in Minnesota, 222; 

 Eggs and Nests of the Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachy- 

 rhyncha), 223; Choetura vauxi: A Correction, 224; The Eastern 

 Distribution of the Prairie Horned Lark: A Question of Evidence, 

 225; The Seaside Sparrow Nesting in Bushes, 226; Occurrence 

 of Proqne chalybea in Texas, 226; Swainson's Warbler in Nebraska 

 227; The Date of Discovery of Swainson's Warbler (Helinaia 

 swainsonii), 227; The Maryland Yellow-throat and Bachman's 

 Finch near Camden, South Carolina, in Winter, 227; The Proper 

 Generic Name for the Nightingale, 228; Winter Record for the 

 Robin in Hanover. N. H., 229; Questionable Records, 229; The 

 American Scoter, Limpkin, and Ipswich Sparrow in South Caro- 

 lina, 231; Tagging Migrants, 232; Notes from Hancock County, 

 Mississippi, 232. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway on the American Families of Oligomyodian Passeres, 233; 

 Stone and Rhoads on Birds from Northeastern Lower California, 

 234; Thayer and Bangs on Birds from Panama, 234; Stone on a 

 Collection of Birds from British East Africa, 235; McGregor on 

 Philippine Birds, 235; Riley on New American Birds, 236; Verrill 

 on the Birds of Dominica, 236; McAfee's Birds of the Vicinity of 

 the University of Indiana, 237; Contributions to Avian Anatomy, 

 237; Whitaker's 'The Birds of Tunisia,' 238; Ralfe's 'The Birds 

 of the Isle of Man,' 240; Economic Ornithology, 241; Proceedings 

 of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 242. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Professor Clark on 'The Feather Tracts of Swifts and Hummingbirds,' 

 243; A Suggestion, 246; The English Sparrow Problem, 246. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Jean Cabanis, Paul Leverkiihn, 247. A. O. U. Nomen- 

 clature and Code Committees, 247; Work of the Biological Sur- 

 vey, 248. 



