iv Contents of Volume XXIII. 



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; Ober- 

 holser's 'A Monograph of the Genus Dendrocincla Gray,' 114; 

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

 Lovers in Mexico,' 115; Hantzsch's Birds of Iceland, 115; Csor- 

 gey's Ornithological Fragments from the Manuscripts of Johann 

 Salamon von Petenyi, 116; Harvie-Brown's 'Travels of a Natur- 

 alist 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 Ornitho- 

 logical Publications, 128; The Batty Collection of Mexican Birds, 

 128. 



NUMBER II. 



Random Notes on Pacific Coast Gulls. By A. W. Anthony 129 



A List of the Birds of Tacoma, Washington, and Vicinity. 



By J. H. Bowles 138 



Where Does the Large-billed Sparrow Spend the Sum- 

 mer? By A. W. Anthony ....... 149 



Further Notes on the Birds of Leon County, Florida. By 



R. W. Williams, Jr. ' 153 



Variation in the Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates villosus and 



Subspecies). By Hubert 0. Jenkins ..... 161 



Notes on the Birds of Cape Breton Island. By Charles W. 



Townsend, M.'D 172 



Stray Notes from Alaska. By A. W. Anthony . . . 179 



On a New Form of Oceanodroma Inhabiting San Benito Is- 

 land, off the Coast of Lower California. By Hans 

 Graf von Berlepsch . . . . . . . . .185 



The Status of the San Francisco Titmouse. By Joseph 



Grinnell 186 



The Florida Gallinule Nesting on Long Island, New York. 



By William C. Braislin, M. D. 189 



Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer 



F. Baird. By Ruthven Deane ... . 194 



An Astronomical Determination of the Heights of Birds dur- 

 ing Nocturnal Migration. By Frederick W. Carpenter. . 210 



