iv Contents of Volume XXIX. 



Correction, 250; Greenland Wheatear seen in Massachusetts, 

 250; Stray Notes from New Brunswick, 251; Some Britisli Co- 

 lumbia Records, 252; Eastern Oregon Notes, 253; Additions to 

 Birds of Kerrville, Texas, 254; Recent Records from the Valley of 

 the Lower Rio Grande, 254; The Names "Purple Finch," "Mavis" 

 and "Highole," 255. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway's Birds of North and Middle America, Part V, 256; Sclater's 

 Birds of Colorado, 258; Howell's Birds of Arkansas, 259; Burns 

 on the Broad-winged Hawk, 259; Bent on Birds of the Aleutian 

 Islands, 260; Nelson and Goldman on New Birds from Panama, 

 261; Mearns on New African Birds, 261; Herrick's Nests 

 and Nest-Building in Birds, 262; Beebe and Crandall on The 

 Undescribed Juvenal Plumage of the Yucatan Jay, 263; Hen- 

 shaw's Report of the Chief of the Biological Survey for 1911, 

 263; Townsend's Captain Cartwright and his Labrador Journal, 

 263; Taylor on Birds of Northern Humboldt County, Nevada, 

 264; Swarth on a Collection of Birds from Vancouver Island, 265; 

 Mathews' The Austral Avian Record, 266; Parkin's Record of 

 Sales of the Great Auk and its Eggs, 266; Jacob's The American 

 Bird House Journal for 1912, 266; Worcester on Newly Dis- 

 covered Breeding Places of Philippine Sea Birds, 267; Gunning 

 and Roberts on South African Birds, 267; Hellmayr on the Orni- 

 thology of Western Colombia, 268; Berlepsch's Revision of the 

 Tanagers, 268; Revista Italiana di Ornitologia, 268; 'Cassinia,' 

 269; The Ornithological Journals, 270. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Photography of Birds Eggs, 274; A Histoiy of the Birds of Colo- 

 rado, 277; Life of Sir William Jardine, 278. 



NOTES AND NEW^S. 



Dr. Richmond's Card-list of Birds, 279; As to Bird Banding, 280; 

 The Mt. Orizaba Habitat Group, 281 ; Centenary of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 282; Conservation Com- 

 mittees of the Cooper Ornithological Club, 283; Field Museum 

 Expedition to South America, 283; Annual Meeting of the Dela- 

 ware Valley Ornithological Club, 283; Publishers' Notices, 283. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 

 Bird Genealogy. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . . . 285 

 A Reconsideration of the American Black Ducks with Special 



Reference to Certain Variations. By John C. Phillips. 



(Plate XV) .295 



Morning Awakening and Even-Song. By Horace W. Wright . 307 

 October Birds of the Headwaters of the Gila River, New 



Mexico. By W. H. Bergtold, M.D 327 



