CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIX. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 



In Memoriam: Heney Augustus Purdie. By William Brewster. 



(Plate I.) 1 



Some Reminiscences of the Late Professor C. O. Whitman. 



By R. M. Strong. (Plate II.) 15 



Notes on the Summer Birds of the St. John Valley, New 



Brunswick. By Charles W. Townsetul, M. D. ... 16 



A NAME FOR the HAWAIIAN LiNNET. By J . Grimiell ... 24 

 A List op the Birds of Sedgwick County, Kansas. By Dwight 



Isley 25 



Notes on Recognition Marks in Certain Species of Birds. By 



John Treadwell Nichols ........ 44 



Observations on the Yellow-billed Tropic-bird {Phaethon 



americanus Grant) at the Bermuda Islands. By Alfred 0. 



Gross. (Plates III-XI.) 49 



A Short Summer Outing in Newfoundland, 1911. By Edward 



Arnold ............ 72 



Notes on Birds Breeding in the Mountains of Virginia. By 



H. B. Bailey 79 



Notes on the Flight of Gulls. By William. Brewster . . 85 

 Twenty-ninth Stated Meeting of the American Ornitholo- 

 gist's Union. By John H. Sage 92 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Laughing Gull at Marshfield, Mass., 99; Franklin's Gull {Larus 

 franklini) at Philadelphia, 99; The Black -backed Gull {Larus 

 viarinus) on Long Island, N. Y., in August, 100; Phcetusa viagni- 

 rostris in Cuba, 100; Ixohrychus exilis in Te.xas, 100; Egret in 

 Northern New Jersey, 100; Yellow Rail (Coturnicops novebora- 

 censis), 100; The Semipalmated Sandpiper in Philadelphia 

 County, Pa., 101; The Golden Plover (Charadrius dominicus 

 dominicus) on the Coast of South Carolina, 101; Capture of a 

 Golden Eagle at Kansas City, Mo., 102; Duck Hawk {Falco 

 peregriniis anatum), 102; Another Saw-whet Owl from Oregon, 

 102; Occurrence of the Yellow-headed Blackbird on the Delaware 

 River near Philadelphia, Pa., 102; Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus 

 in Eastern Cuba, 103; Additional Records of the Evening Gros- 

 beak in Penn.sylvania, 103; The Seaside Sparrow {Passerherbulus 

 maritimus maritimus) Breeding on the Coast of Georgia near 

 Savannah, 103; The Bohemian Waxwing in Vermont in Summer, 

 104; Another Record of the Philadelphia Vireo from Long Island, 

 N. Y., 105; Bachman's Warbler in Camden Co. and Breeding in 

 Chatham Co., Georgia, 105; Dendroica cestiva Captured by a 

 Spider, 105; The Louisiana Water-Thrush and Broad-winged 

 Hawk in Southern New Jersey, 105; Western Records of the Cat- 

 bird {Dumetella carolinensis) , 106; An unusually late Nesting Date 

 of the Catbird, 106; Capture of the Carolina Wren at Portland, 

 Maine, 106; Carolina Wren {Thryothorus liulovicianus ludovida- 

 7ius), 107;' Waterfowl Nearly Drowned, 107; Shore-bird Notes, 



