Contents of Volume XXXI. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 



The Moults and Plumages op the Scoters — Genus Oidemia. 



By Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D. (Plates XXIV-XXX.) . 293 



A List of Birds from the Vicinity of Golden, Colorado. By 



R. B. Rockwell and Alex. Wetmore. (Plates XXXI-XXXIII.) 306 

 Early Records of the Wild Turkey. By Albert Hazen Wright 334 

 Osteology of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) . By 



Dr. R. W. Shujeldt. (Plate XXXIV.) 358 



Notes on the Louisiana Clapper Rail {Rallus crepitans saturatus) 



IN Texas. By George Finlay Simmons ..... 363 

 A New Subspecies of Dendragapus (Dendragapus obscurus flem- 



ingi) from Southern Yukon Territory. By P. A. Taverner 385 

 An Undescribed Galapagos Race of Oceanodroma castro. By 



John Treadwell Nichols ........ 338 



Thirty-Second Stated Meeting of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. By John H. Sage ...... 390 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A Misinterpretation, 394; Concealing Postures of Grebes, 395; 

 Herring Gulls at Sea, 397; Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) on 

 Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Mass., 397; European Widgeon {Mareca 

 penelope) at Boston, Mass., 397; An Egret on Long Island, 398; 

 The Woodcock Carrying its Young, 398; A Feeding Habit of the 

 Ruddy Turnstone, 399; Willow Ptarmigan in Montana, 399; 

 Choucalcyon versus Sauromarptis, 399; The Bobolink breeding 

 in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 400; Evening Grosbeak in Penn-" 

 sylvania, 400; Nuttall's Sparrow {Zonolrichia leucophrys nuttalli) 

 wintering in King Co., Wash., 400; The Bahama Swallow in 

 Cuba, 401 ; The Coahuila Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon fulva pal- 

 lida) in Texas, 401 ; The Tufted Tit — A New Record for Canada, 

 402 ; Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher {Polioptila car idea) at West Haven, 

 Conn., 402; Three New Birds for Champaign County, Illinois, 

 402; New Bird Records for Arizona, 403; Birds transporting 

 Food Supplies, 404. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway's 'The Birds of North and Middle America,' Part VI, 406; 

 Chapman on New Birds from Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, 

 407; Mearns on New African Birds, 408; Thayer and Bangs on 

 Bu'ds of the Arctic Coast of East Siberia, 408; Stresemann on the 

 Birds of Ceram, 409; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 410; 

 'Die Schwalbe,' the Austrian Bird Migration Report, 410; Grin- 

 nell on the Mammals and Birds of the Lower Colorado Valley, 

 411; Bangs and Phillips on Birds from Yunnan, 412; Bangs on 

 New Birds, 413; Oberholser's Monograph of the Nighthawks, 413; 

 Allen's 'The Red-winged Blackbird,' 414; Beebe's Preliminary 

 Pheasant Studies and Other Papers, 515; Chandler on the Feath- 

 ers of Circus hudsonius, 415; Bett's 'Birds of Boulder County, 

 Colorado,' 416; Walpole-Bond's ' Field Studies of Some Rarer Brit- 

 ish Birds,' 416; Stresemann on Early Accounts of Birds of Para- 

 dise, 417; Wright and Allen's 'Field Note-book of Birds,' 417; 

 Bryant on the Economic Status of the Western Meadowlark, 417; 

 Field Studies of Nestling Birds, 420; Economic Ornithology in Re- 



