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Maine, 536; Uncommon Shore-birds seen in Essex County, Mass., 

 537; Killdeer {Oxyechus vociferus) at Lancaster, Mass., 537; 

 Ocracoke Water Bird Notes, 538; Oreortyx in Idaho, 538; Pas- 

 senger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in Alberta, 539; The Band- 

 tailed Pigeon {Columba fasciata) in North Dakota, 539; On the 

 Alleged Egg-carrying Habit of the Band-tailed Pigeon, 540; 

 Pigeon Hawk in South Carolina in Winter, 541; Red-headed 

 Woodpecker at Newburyport, Mass., 541; The Case of a Crow 

 and a Ruffed Grouse, 542; Concerning the Hawaiian Linnet, 543; 

 The Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Other Birds at Plymouth, 

 Mass., 543; Notes on the Dickcissel in Colorado, 544; Proper 

 Name for the Nashville Warbler, 545; Abundance of the Cape 

 May Warbler {Dendroica tigrina) around Quebec, 545; Mimicry 

 in the Song of the Catbird, 545; Another Occurrence of the Blue- 

 gray Gnatcatcher in Essex County, Massachusetts, 546; a Third 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Maine, 546. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Barrows' 'Michigan Bird Life,' 547; Willett's 'Birds of the Pacific 

 Slope of Southern California,' 548; Mathews' 'Birds of Australia,' 

 549; The Austral Avian Record No. 3, 551; Brj'ant on The 

 Present and Future Status of the California Valley Quail, 551; 

 Grinnell's 'Systematic List of the Birds of California,' 551 ; Chap- 

 man on New Colombian Birds, 552; Chapman on a New Ibis from 

 Mt. Kenia, 552; Richmond on New Birds from the West Coast of 

 Sumatra, 552; Beebe on New Blood Pheasants, 552; Oliver on 

 the Geographic Relationships of the Birds of Lord Howe, Norfolk, 

 and the Kermadec Islands, 553; Gladstone's 'The Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Dumfriesshire, 553 ; Horsbrugh and Davies on the Game- 

 Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa, 553; The Ornithological 

 Journals, 554; Ornithological Ai'ticles in other Journals, 558; 

 Publications Received, 559. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Functions of the A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature, 561; 

 Aves in the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 568. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary; Wilhelm Blasius, 571; John Gerrard Keulemans, 571; Bird 

 Banding Abroad, 571; The American Museum's Colombian 

 Expedition, 572; Ornithological Investigations in the Pribilof 

 Island?!, 572; Index to Sharpe's Hand List of Birds, 572; Wol- 

 laston's Expedition to New Guinea, 572; Annual General Meeting 

 of the B. O. U., 573; Book Notice, 573; A Great Auk for Sale, 

 573; The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club Collection, 573; 

 Thirtieth Stated Meeting of the A. O. U., 574. 



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Index 575 



Errata 605 



Dates of Issue 605 



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Officers and Members ix 



