CONTENTS 



Observations on Biros of the South Atlantic. By Robert Cushman Murphy. 



(Plates XXXV-XXXIX) 439 



The Development op the Stomach in the Euphonias. By Alex. Wetmore 458 



Anatomical Notes on Trochalopteron and Sicalis. By Hubert Lyman Clark 461 



Early Records of the Wild Turkey. JI. By Albert Hazen Wright . . . 463 



Some Winter Birds of Oklahoma. By Wells W. Cooke ..... 473 

 Notes on the Birds of Leon County, Florid.v — Third Supplement. By 



R. W. Williams 494 



The California Forms of the Genus Psaltriparus. By Harry S. Swarth. 



(Plate XL) 499 



A Review of the Genus Phaebetria. By John Treadwell Nichols and Robert 



Cushman Murphy. (Plate XLI) 526 



General Notes. — Harlequin Duck in Glacier National Park, Montana, 535: American 

 Egret (Herodias egretta) at Naushon Island. Mass., 535; Yellow-crowTied Night 

 Heron in Colorado. 535: Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) off Boston Harbor 

 in Siunmer. 536: Another IMassachusetts Record for the Turkey Vulture (Cathortes 

 aura septentrionalis), 536; Richardson's Owl {Cryptoglaux funeren richardsoni) in 

 N. E. Illinois, 536; Unusual Behavior of a Ruby-tliroated Hummingbird (Archi- 

 lochus colubris). 536: Breeding of the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius pha:niceus phce- 

 niceus) in Nova Scotia. 537: Brewer's Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) breeding 

 in Southern Minnesota. 538: Florida !Meado\vlark {Stumella magna argutula) in 

 Northern Illinois, 540: Evening Grosbeaks at Jamaica Plain. !Mass.. 540: Chestnut- 

 collared Longspur in Colorado. 541: The Snow Bunting Again in the Chicago Area. 

 541: Nevada Savannah Sparrow in New ISIexico, 542: A Second North Carolina 

 Record for Lincoln's Sparrow (Melosptza lincolni lincolni), 542; Bell's Yireo in 

 Wisconsin. 543: San Lucas Verdin (Auriparus ftariceps lamprocephalus) in California, 

 543; Notes from Springfield. Mass., 543; West Virginia Notes, 544; Some Winter 

 Bird Notes from the Yellowstone National Park, 546: Some Breeding Birds of 

 Garrett Co., Maryland, 548; Serious Loss of Bird Life During Spring Migration, 548. 



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 Australia.' 552: The Xew Nature Library. 553; Bannerman on 

 Birds of the Canaries. 553: Recent Publications on Economic Ornithology, 553; 

 Further Observations by CoUinge 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 Received. 564. 



Notes and News. — The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. 566; The traffic in Rhea 

 plumage, 567. 



Index ............... 569 



Errata .............. 593 



Dates of Issue . ... . . . . . . . . . 593 



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