CONTENTS. 



PAGS 



InMemobiam: Henry Augustus Purdie. By William Brewster. (Plate I.) . . 1 



Some Reminescences of the late Professor C. O. Whitman. By R. M. Strong. 



(Plate II.) 15 



Notes on the Summer Birds of the St. John Valley, New Brunswick. By 



Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . . . . . . . . . .16 



A Name fob the Hawaiian Linnet. By J. Grinnell . . . . . .24 



A List op the Birds of Sedgwick County, Kansas. By Dw'^ht Isley . . .25 



Notes on Recognition Marks in Certain Species of Bird 'ohn Treadwell 



Nichols ......... ... 44 



Observations on the Yellow-billed Tropic-bird (Phaetho mus Grant) at' 



the Bermuda Islands. By Alfred 0. Gross. (Plates ) . . .49 



A Short Summer Outing in Newfoundland, 1911. By I mold . . 72 



Notes on Birds Breeding in the Mountains of Virgin H. B.-Bailey . 79 



Notes on the Flight op Gulls. By William Brewster . .... 85 



Twenty-ninth Stated Meeting of the American Orn? ,ist's Union. By 



John H. Sage. .... 92 



General Notes. — Laughing Gull at Marshfleld, Mass., 99; Franklin's Gull {Larus 

 franklini) at Phlladelpliia, 99; The Black-backed Gull (Lams marinus) on Long 

 Island, N. Y., in August, 100; Phcetusa magnirostris in Cuba, 100; Ixohrychus exilis 

 in Texas, 100; Egret in Northern New .Jersey, 100; Yellow Rail {Cotumicops nove- 

 boracensis), 100; The Semipalmated Sandpiper in Philadelphia County, Pa., 101; 

 The Golden Plover {Gharadrius dominicus dominicus) on the Coast of South Carolina, 

 101; Capture of a Golden Eagle at Kansas City, Mo., 102; Duck Hawk (Falco 

 peregrinus anatum), 102; Another Saw-whet Owl from Oregon, 102; Occurrence of 

 the Yellow-headed Blackbird on the Delaware River near Philadelphia, Pa., 102; 

 Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in Eastern Cuba, 103; Additional Records of the 

 Evening Grosbeak in Pennsylvania, 103; The Seaside Sparrow {Passerherbulus 

 maritimus maritimus) Breeding on the Coast of Georgia near Savannah, 103; The 

 Bohemian Waxwing in Vermont in Summer, 104; Another Record of the Philadel- 

 phia Vireo from Long Island, N. Y., 105; Bachman's Warbler in Camden Co. and 

 Breeding in Chatham Co., Georgia, 105; Dendroica asstiva Captured by a Spider, 

 105; The Louisiana Water-Thrush and Broad- winged Hawk in Southern New 

 Jersey, 105; Western Records of the Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), 106; An 

 imusually late Nesting Date of the Catbird, 106; Capture of the Carolina Wren at 

 Portland, Maine, 106; Carohna Wren {Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus), 107; 

 Waterfowl Nearly Drowned, 107; Shore-bird Notes, 108; Two Interesting Captures 

 in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 109; Two New Birds for Greenland, 109; Additions to a 

 List of the Birds of Harding Coimty, Northwestern South Dakota, 110; Notes 

 from West Virginia, 111; New Records from Arkansas, 112; Notes from the Mag- 

 dalen Islands, 112; Bird Enemies of the Chinese Cotton Scale, 113. 



Recent Literature. — McAtee's 'Woodpeckers in Relation to Trees and Wood Pro- 

 ducts,' 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 Neerlandica,' 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 American Egrets, 119; Fleming on a New Teal from the Audaman 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 PubUcations, 139; 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 140. 



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