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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 Summer? By A. W. Anthony . 149 



Further Notes ox the Birds of Leon County, Florida. By R. W. Williams, Jr. . 153 

 Variation in the Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates villoma and Subspecies). By 



Hubert 0. Jenkins 161 



Notes on the Birds'ofICape Breton Island. By Charles H. Townsend, M. D. .172 



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



Ox v New Form of Ocf.anodroma Inhabiting San Benito Island, off the Coast 



of Lower California. By Hans Graf von Berlepsch . . . . . 185 



The Status of the San Francisco Titmouse. By Joseph QHnneU . . ■ 186 

 The Florida Gallinule Nesting ox Long Island, New York. By William C. 



Braislin. M. D 189 



Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird. By 



Ruthven Dearie 194 



An Astronomical Determination of the Heights of Birds during Nocturnal 



Migration. By Frederic W. Carpenter 210 



General Notes. — Audubon's Shearwater and Peale's Petrel Breeding in Bermuda, 217; 

 Trie 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 fulicarius), a new 

 Bird for the Kansas List, 220, The European Lapwing 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 Massachusetts, 222; 

 Exceptional Eggs of the Bald Eagle (Halia?etus leucocephalus), 222; Richardson's Owl 

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

 Eggs and Nests of the Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha), 223; Cho?tura 

 vauxv 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 Progne chalybea in Texas, 226; Swainson's Warbler in Nebraska, 227; The Date of 

 the Discovery of Swainson's Warbler (Helinaia swai7isonii), 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 Carolina, 231; Tagging Migrants, 232; Notes from Hancock County, 

 Mississippi, 232. 



Recent Literati-re. — 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 Vicirrlty of the Uni- 

 versity 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. 



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

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



Notes and News. — Obituary: Jean Cabanis, Paul Leverkuhn, 247. A. O. L T . Nomen- 

 clature and Code Committees, 247; Work of the Biological Survey, 248. 



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