Contents of Volume XXIX. V 



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The Hawaiian Linnet {Corpodacus mutans Grirmell). By John 



C. Phillips 336 



The Introduction and Acclimatization of the Yellow Canary 



ON Midway Island. By William Alanson Bryan . . . 339 



Early Records of the Carolina Paroquet. By Albert Hazen 



Wright 343 



Notes on Palmer's Thrasher [Toxostoma ciirvirostra palmeri). 



By Earle F. Stafford 363 



Notes on the Birds Observed on a Trip through the Moun- 

 tains of Western North Carolina. By Stephen C. Bruner 

 and Alexander L. Feild ........ 368 



A New Subspecies of Ruffed Grouse. By Outram Bangs . 378 



Sixteenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' 



Union Check-List of North American Birds . . . 380 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Ancient Murrelet {Synthlihoramphus antiquus) in Ontario, 387; 

 Franklin's Gull in Wisconsin, 388; Sabine's Gull on the Mississ- 

 ippi River, 388; Caspian Tern {Sterna caspia) in Minnesota, 389; 

 The Brown Pelican on Long Island, 389; An Additional Specimen 

 of the Labrador Duck, 389; Massachusetts Geese, 390; A Pecul- 

 iar Plumage of the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis canadensis), 

 391; Late Record of the Red-backed Sandpiper {Pelidna alpina 

 sakhalina) in Massachusetts, 391; An Albino Egg of Wilson's 

 Plover, 392; Pigeons do not Carry their Eggs, 392; Note on the 

 Bald Eagle and Osprey, 393; Maynard's Cuckoo {Coccyzus minor 

 maynardi Ridgway) in Cuba, 393; The Cuban Whip-poor-will 

 {Antrostonius cubanensis Lawrence) with Young, 394; A Starling 

 at Squantum, Mass., 394; A Case of Cannibalism among Black- 

 birds, 394; Rusty Blackbirds {Euphagns carolinus) wintering 

 in Essex Co., Mass., 395; Lark Sparrow {Chondestes grammacus 

 grammacus) in Cuba, 395; Unusual Nest Site of the Cardinal, 

 395; Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons Say) — A Cuban 

 Record, 396; The Connecticut Warbler in Central Park, New 

 York Citj^, 396; Type of the Genus Saxicola, 396; Two Inter- 

 esting Records for Canada, 396; Some Erroneous Wisconsin Bird 

 Records, 397; Rare Virginia Birds, 399; Notes from Boulder 

 County, Colo., 399; Correction, 400; Birds and the Cotton Scale, 

 400; Ornithological Notes of Rafinesque in the Western Review 

 and Miscellaneous Magazine, Lexington, Ky., 401. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Chapman's Handbook, 402; Eagle Clarke's 'Studies in Bird Migra- 

 tion,' 403; Pycraft's 'A History of Birds,' 40.5; Headlev's 'The 

 Flight of Birds,' 406; Howard's 'British Warblers' Part VI, 406; 

 Hartert's 'Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna.' 407; A Hand-List 

 of British Birds, 407; Horsbrugh's 'The Game Birds and Water- 

 Fowl of South Africa.' 410; Mathews' 'Austral Avian Record,' 

 No. 2, 411; Oberholser on the Edible-nest Swiftlets, 411; Clark 

 on 'The Ontogeny of a Genus, 411 ; Wright on Birds of the Jeffer- 

 son Region, 411; Dill and Bryan on Laj'san Island, 412; Eco- 

 nomic Publications of the U. S'. Department of Agriculture, 413; 

 The Food of Birds in India, 413; Bryant on Relation of Birds to 



