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108; Two Interesting Captures in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 109; 

 Two New Birds for Greenland, 109; Additions to a List of the 

 Birds of Harding County, Northwestern South Dakota, 110; 

 Notes from West Virginia, 111; New Records from Arkansas, 1 12 ; 

 Notes from the Magdalen Islands, 112; Bird Enemies of the 

 Chinese Cotton Scale, 113. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



McAtee's 'Woodpeckers in Relation to Trees and Wood Products,' 

 114; Forbush on the Starling in America, 114; Strong on the 

 Olfactory Organs and the Sense of Smell in Birds, 115; Lowe's 

 'A Naturalist on Desert Islands,' 116; Lechner's 'Oologia Neer- 

 landica,' 116; Berlepsch on Birds of the Aru Islands, 117; Riley 

 on Three New Birds from Canada, 117; Kellogg on Winter Birds 

 from Trinity and Shasta Counties, California, 118; Wood on the 

 Birds of the Charity Islands, Michigan, 118; Swarth on a New 

 Hairy Woodpecker from Southeastern Alaska, 118; Report of the 

 Meriden Bird Club, 118; Cooke on the Distribution of the Ameri- 

 can Egrets, 119; Fleming on a New Teal from the Andaman 

 Islands, 119; Rubow's 'Life of the Common Gull,' 119; Gentry's 

 'Life-Histories' — A Belated Review, 119; African Economic 

 Entomology, 121; Todd and Worthington's 'A Contribution to 

 the Ornithology of the Bahama Islands,' 123; Mathews's 'The 

 Birds of Australia,' 124; Abbott's 'The Home-Life of the Osprey,' 

 125; Publications Received, 124. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of North American Birds,' 128; 

 Mathews's Notes on Nomenclature, 131. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Change in the Editorship of 'The Auk,' 136; Bird Collecting and 

 Bird Protection, 136; Ornithological Exploration in California, 

 137; Mr. Rhoads's Work in Ecuador, 138; Ornithological Field 

 Work, 138; New Publications, 139; National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 140. 



NUMBER II. 



Page 

 Birds of the Paramo of Central Ecuador. By Samuel N. 



Rhoads 141 



Notes on Whip-poor-wills and Owls. By Frank Bolles. With 



a Foreword By William Brewster ...... 150 



The Relation of Genera to Faunal Areas. By Spencer Trotter 159 



Notes on the Laysan Finch. By Hubert Lyman Clark . . 166 



A Last Word on the Passenger Pigeon. By C. F. Hodge . . 169 

 The Validity of the Red-legged Subspecies of Black Duck. 



By Charles W. Townsend, M. D 176 



Birds in the Markets of Southern Europe. By Louis B. Bishop 



M.D 179 



