Contents of Volume XXXI. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Eaton's 'Birds of New York,' 550; Swarth's ' List of Arizona Birds,' 551; 

 Aiken and Warren on the Birds of El Paso County, Colorado, 552; 

 Mathews' 'Birds of Austraha,' 552; The New Nature Library, 

 553; JBannerman on Birds of the Canaries, 553; Recent Publica- 

 tions on Economic Ornithology, 553; Further Observations by 

 Collinge on the Dispersal of Weed Seeds by Birds, 554; Herman 

 on Useful and Harmful Birds, 554; Food of the Common Partridge 

 (Perdix perdix) of Europe, 555; the Ornithological Journals, 556; 

 Ornithological Articles in other Journals, 563; Publications Re- 

 ceived, 564. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, 566; The Traffic in Rhea 

 plumage, 567. 



