CONTENTS. 



Some Unpublished Letters of Alexander Wilson and John Abbot. By Witmer 



Stone 361 



Ornithological Notes from Western Mexico and the Tres Marias and Isa- 

 bella Islands. By H. H. Bailey. (Plates VI and VII.) . . . 369 

 The West Indian Black Forms of the Genus Ccereba. By Austin H, Clark . 392 

 Birds Observed in the Florida Keys. By Henry W. Fowler .... 396 



A-Birding in an Auto. By Milton S. Ray ....... 400 



Notes on Birds of Silver City, New Mexico. By John T. Sharpless Hunn . . 418 



Concerning the Thick-billed Parrot. By W. H. Bergtold .... 425 



Change of Location of a Crow Roost. By Chreswell J. Hunt . . . 429 



Nesting Habits of the Green Heron. By Irene G. Wheelock. (Plate VIII) . 432 



Birds of Toronto, Ontario. Part I, Water Birds. By James H. Fleming . 437 



The Spring Moltlt of Larus atricilla Linn. By C. .William Beebe. (Plate JIX) '454 



General Notes. — The American Egret (Herodias egretta) in the Catskill Mountains, 457; 

 A Second Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax violaceus) at Portland, Me., 457; 

 A Late Spring Record for the Yellow Rail (Porzana noveboraeensis) in Massachusetts, 

 with Remarks on the 'Ornithological Mystery,' 457; The White-rumped Sandpiper 

 in Wayne Co., Mich., 458; An Eskimo Curlew Captured at Sea, 459; Contents of the 

 Crop and Gizzard of a Young Ruffed Grouse, 459; Swallow-tailed Flycatcher (Mus- 

 civora forficata) in New Brunswick, 460; Nests and Eggs of the Beardless Flycatcher 

 (Ornithion imberbe), 460; The Prairie Horned Lark a Summer Resident in Connecticut, 

 461 ; The Bobolink in Colorado, 461 ; Probable Breeding of the White-throated Sparrow 

 in Connecticut, 461; The Towhee Nesting in Bushes, 462; The Rough-winged Swallow 

 (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) Breeding near Springfield, Mass., 463; The Water-Thrush 

 (Seiurus noveboraeensis) Nesting in Rhode Island, 463; A Robin's Nest without Mud, 

 464; The Birds of Wyoming: Some Corrections, 464. 



Recent Literature. — Brewster's 'Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts,' 

 466; Hellmayr ' On the Birds of the Island of Trinidad,' 470; Cherrie on Birds Collected 

 in Trinidad, 471 ; Report on the Immigration of Birds in England and Wales in the 

 Spring of 1905, 472; A Hand-List of the Birds of the Philippine Islands, 472; Oberholser's 

 Revision of the Genus Collocalia, 473; New Names for North American Birds, 474; 

 Howell on 'Birds that Eat the Cotton Boll Weevil,' 475; Palmer on Federal Game 

 Protection, 475; Game Protection in 1905, 477; Miller on Birds from Southern Sinaloa 

 478; Miller on Birds from Northwestern Durango, 478. 



Correspondence. — The Speed Qf Birds, 479; The Supposed Types in the Lafresnaye Col- 

 lection, 480. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Henry Baker Tristram, 484; Victor Fatio, 484; Mrs. Edward 

 Robins, 485. Bibliography of the Ornithological Writings of Dr. J. Cabanis, 485; 

 Founding of the California Audubon Society, 485; Bequest to the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies, 486; Seventh International Zoological Congress, 486; Annual 

 Meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society, 487; Twenty-fourth Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, 487. 



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