viii Contents of Volume XXIX. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plates. 



Plate I. Portrait of Henry A. Purdie. 



II. Portrait of Charles O. Whitman. 



III. Nesting Site of the Yellow-billed Tropic-bird. 

 IV-V. Yellow-billed Tropic-bird on nest. 

 VI. Eggs of Yellow-billed Tropic-bird. 

 VII-XI. Young of the Yellow-billed Tropic-bird. 

 XII. Egg of the Great Auk. 

 XIII-XIV. Least Sandpiper and Young. 

 XV. Skins and feathers of Anas diazi and A. wyvilliana. 

 XVI-XVIII. Canvas-backs and Scaup Ducks at the outlet of 



Cayuga Lake, N. Y., during the freeze. 



XIX. Canvas-backs in flight and at rest. 



XX. Dead Ducks and stranded Holboell's Grebe on the ice. Cay- 

 uga Lake. 



XXI. Nesting site and nest of the Red-breasted Merganser. 



XXII. Breeding habitat and Young of the Red-breasted Merganser. 



XXIII. Young of the Red-breasted Merganser. 



XXIV. ^slrelata hasitata. 



Text-cuts. 



Paok 



Reproduction of a page of Mr. Frank BoUes manuscript . . . 155 

 Map of Great Slave Lake and Region to the North .... 203 

 Map of the Headwaters of the Gila River, New Mexico . . . 328 



