CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII. 



NUMBER I. 



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. Bow- 

 dish 16 



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



Status and Plumages of the White-winged Gulls of the 



Genus Larus. By Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D. (Plate I.) 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 Coast Region. By Arthur T. Wayne . . 56 



The Feather Tracts of Swifts and Hummingbirds. By Hu- 

 bert Lyman Clark. (Plates II and III.) .... 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 Michi- 

 gan 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 (Passer- 

 ina nivalis), 102; The Redpoll Breeding on the Magdalen Islands, 

 102; Nesting of the Junco in Eastern Massachusetts, 103; Possi- 

 ble Breeding of Junco hyemalis in Essex County, Mass., 103; The 

 Lark Sparrow in Massachusetts, 103; A Male Golden-winged War- 

 bler (Helminthophila chrysoptera) 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. 



