CONTENTS 



The Moults AND Plumages OF the Scoters — Genus Oidemia. Hy 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) 309 



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



Osteology of the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). By Dr. R. W. 



Shufeldt. (Plate XXXIV) 358 



Notes on the Louisiana Clapper Rail (Rallus ere pitans saturatus) in Texas. 



By George Finlay Simmons .......... 363 



A New Subspecies of Dendragapus {Dendragapus obscurus flemingi) from 



Southern Yukon Territory. By P. A. Taverner ..... 385 

 AnTJndescribed Galapagos Race of Oceanodroma castro. By John Treadwell 



Nichols 388 



Thirty-Second Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



By John H. Sage 390 



General Notes. — A Misinterpretation, 394; Concealing Postures of Grebes, 395; 

 Herring Gulls at Sea, 397; Glaucous Gull (Lnrus hypcrboreus) on Fresh Pond, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., 397; European Wicl^ion (Mareca penelope) at Boston, Mass., 397; 

 An Egret on Long Island, 398; Tlu' Woodcock Carrying its Young, 398; A Feeding 

 Habit of the Ruddy Turnstone. 399; Willow Ptarmigan in ISIontana, 399; Choucal- 

 cyon versus Sauromarptis, 399; The Bobolink breeding in Southeastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, 400; Evening Grosbeak in Pennsylvania, 400; Nuttall's Sparrow (Zonotrichia 

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

 Cuba, 401; The Coahuila ClifT Swallow (Petrochelidon fulva pallida) in Te.xas, 401; 

 The Tufted Tit — A New Record for Canada, 402; Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Poliop- 

 tila ccerulea) at West Haven, Conn., 402; Tluree 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 Birds 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; Grinnell 

 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 Prelimi- 

 nary Pheasant Studies and Other Papers, 515; Chandler on the Feathejs of Circus 

 hudsonius, 415; Bett's 'Birds of Boulder Coimty, Colorado, 416; Walpole-Bond's 

 'Field Studies of Some Rarer British Birds,' 416; Stresemann on Early Accounts 

 of Birds of Paradise, 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 Recent Entomological Publications, 

 421; Hewitt on 'The Protection of Birds in and aroimd Ottawa,' 422; Alenegaux 

 on Birds as Enemies of ]Mice, 423; A Note on 'The Effect of Extent of Distribution 

 on Speciation,' 423; Henshaw's "Birds of Town and Comitry,' 423; The Ornithologi- 

 cal Journals, 424; Ornithological Publications in Other Journals, 430; Publications 

 Received. 432. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: A. C. L. G. Gunther, 435; G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, 

 435; Publication of Reports of Expeditions. 436; Progress of Bird Protection, 437; 

 Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition, 438; Book Notices., 438. 



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