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In Memoriam: Philip Lutlet Sclater. By D. G. Elliot, D. Sc, F. R. S. E., etc. 



(Plate I) 1 



Preliminary Description of a New Petrel. By Robert Cushman Murphy, 



(Plate II) 12 



A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider. By Charles Wendell Townsend, 



M. D 14 



On the Habits and Behavior of the Herring Gull, Larus argent.atus Pont. 



By R. M. Strong. (Plates III-X.) 22 



Notes on Nest Life of the Brown Creeper in Massachusetts. By Winsor 



M. Tyler 50 



The Fallacy op the Tendency towards Ultraminute Distinctions. By 



J. D. Figgins ............ 62 



Notes on the Ornithology op Clay and Palo Alto Counties, Iowa. By 



A. D. Tinker. (Plates XI-XII.) .70 



Additions to "Notes on Some Summer and Pall Birds op the Crooked Lake 

 Region, Cass and Crow Wing Counties, Minn." By Albert W. Hony- 

 will, Jr 82 



Some Binary Generic Names. By Gregory M. Mathews, F. R. S. E. . . 86 



Thirty-first Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



John H. Sage 92 



General Notes. — Brown Pelican Regular off North Carolina, 100; Recovery of a 

 Banded Pintail Duck, 100; American Egret {Ilerodias egretta) at Martha's Vineyard, 

 Mass., 100; The Willet in Central New York, 100; Killdeer Plover at Cambridge, 

 Mass., 101; Turkey Vulture (Cathnrtes aura septenlrionalis) at Martha's Vineyard, 

 Mass., 101; Doryfera vs. Hemistephania, 101 ; Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) in Colorado, 

 102; "The Fox Sparrow in Central Park, New York City, in August, 102; An Abnor- 

 mal Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 102; Two Prothonotary Warblers in Massachusetts, 

 103; Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina) in Massachusetts in Autumn, 103; 

 Mourning Warbler {Oporomis Philadelphia) in Florida, 103; Hooded Warbler at 

 Boston, Mass., 104; Hooded Warbler at Nahant, Mass., 104; Some Rare Birds at 

 Hamilton, Kansas, 104; A Quaint Reminiscence of Audubon, 105; Correction, 106. 



Recent Literature. — Gurney's 'The Gannett,' 107; Sage and Bishop on the Birds 

 of Connecticut, 108; Tyler on Some Birds of the Fresno District, CaUfornia, 109; 

 Grinnell and Swarth on the Birds and Mammals of the San Jacinto Area of Southern 

 CaUfornia, 110; Gifford's 'Birds of the Galapagos Islands,' 112; Brooks' List of the 

 Birds of West Virginia, 112; Bailey's 'Life Zones and Crop Zones of New Mexico,' 

 113; Todd on New Neotropical Birds, 113; Kirkham's 'North and South,' 114; 

 Wood on Michigan Birds, 115; Howell on New Birds from Alabama, 115; Mearns 

 on New African Birds, 115; Shufeldt on Fossil Feathers and Fossil Birds, 116; 

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

 Australia, 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; Shel- 

 ford's 'Animal Communities in Temperate America,' 120; The Oriole, 123; The 

 Ornithological Journals, 124; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 132; Pub- 

 lications Received, 134. 



Correspondence.^ Albatross Specimens, 136; Teaching a Bird Course, 137. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Alfred Russel Wallace, 138; Ora W. Knight, 141; 

 Fred B. SpaulcUng, 142; Dr. F. A. Jentink. 143; Dr. J. W. B. Gimnmg, 143; Bird 

 Protective Legislation for 1913, 143; The Cat Problem, 145; A Banded S.wallow, 

 146; The 'One-Letter' Question, 146; The Chicago Ornithological Society, 148; The 

 A. O. U. Committee on Classiflcaton and Nomenclature, 148; The 1914 Spring 

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



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