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115; Shiifeldt on Fossil Feathers and Fossil Birds, 116; Gain 

 on Penguins of the Antarctic Regions, 116; Mathews' 'A list of 

 the Birds of AustraUa, 116; Witherby on the Moult of the Rook, 

 118; Trevor-Battye's 'Camping in Crete,' 118; Hartert's 'Die 

 Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna,' 119; Economic Value of Wild 

 Birds in South Africa, 120; Bird Enemies of Diabroticas, 120; 

 Shelf ord's 'Animal Communities in Temperate America,' 120; 

 The Oriole, 123; The Ornithological Journals, 124; Ornithologi- 

 cal Articles in Other Journals, 132; Pubhcations Received, 134. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Albatross Specimens, 136; Teaching a Bird Course, 137. \ 



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 NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Alfred Russell Wallace, 138; Ora W. Knight, 141; Fred B. 



Spaulding, 142; Dr. F. A. Jentink, 143; Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, a 



143; Bii-d Protective Legislation for 1913, 143; The Cat Prob- 1 



lem, 145; A Banded Swallow, 146; The 'One-Letter' Question, J 



146; The Chicago Ornithological Society, 148; The A. O. U. ! 



Committee on Classification and Nomenclature, 148; The 1914 ] 



Spring Meeting of the A. O. U., 148. j 



NUMBER II. 



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Among the Birds of the Eastern Sudan. By John C. Phillips. ' 



(Plate XIII.) ■ . 149 



The Ferruginous Rough-leg, Archibuteo ferrugineus in Mon- ' 



TANA. By E. S. Cameron. (Plates XIV-XVIII.) . . .159 

 Birds as Destroyers of Grasshoppers in California. By i 



Harold C. Bryant 168 



On the Habits and Behavior of the Herring Gull, Larus argen- 



tatus Font. (Concluded). By K. M. Strong. (Plates XIX- 



XX.) 178 



An Ecological Study of the Breeding Birds of an Area near J 



Choteau, Mont. By Aretas A. Saunders .... 200 ' 



Does a Grebe Spread its Wings Just Before Diving? By Verdi 



Burtch. (Plates XXI-XXII.) 211 



Birds of Autauga and Montgomery Counties, Alabama. By 



Lewis S. Golsan and Ernest G. Holt. (Plate XXIII.) . . 212 

 Acadian Chickadees (Penthestes hudsonicus littorialis) in Boston ^ 



AND Vicinity in the Fall of 1913. By Horace W. Wright . 236 » 



GENERAL NOTES. i 



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The Western Grebe in Ohio, 243; American Merganser (Mergus ameri- j 



canus) at Boston, Mass., in Midwinter, 243; Two Unrecorded J 



Specimens of the European Widgeon from Massachusetts, 243; ; 



Notes on the Habits of an Old-squaw (Harelda hyemalis) and two } 



Lesser Scaup Ducks {Aythya affmis), 244; American Egret (Hero- ) 

 dias egretta) in Rhode Island, 24:5; Notes on an Unusual Flight of 

 Stilt Sandpipers (Micropalama himantopus), 246; Franklin's 



