CONTENTS. 



P^GE 



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



A Reconsideration of the American 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 



The Hawaiian Linnet {Corpodaciis mutans Grinnell). 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 curvirostra palmeri). By Earle F. 



Stafford 363 



Notes on the Birds Observed on a Trip through the Mountains op 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 (Synthliboramphus antiguus) in Ontario, 387; 

 Franklin's Gull in Wisconsin, 388: Sabine's Gull on the Mississippi 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 Peculiar Plumage of the Canada Goose (Branta ca7iadensis canadensis), 

 391 ; Late Record of the Red-backed Sandpiper (Pelidna alpina sakhaUna) in Massa- 

 chusetts, 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 {Antrostomus 

 cubanensis Lawrence) with Young, 394; A Starling at Squantum, Mass., 394; A 

 Case of Cannibalism among Blackbirds, 394; Rusty Blackbirds (Euphagus carolinus) 

 wintering in Essex Co.. Mass., 395; Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus grammacus) 

 in Cuba, 395; Unusual Nest Site of the Cardinal, 395; Cliflf Swallow (Petrochelidon 

 lunifroiis Say) — A Cuban Record, 396; The-Connecticut Warbler in Central Park, 

 New York City, 396; Type of the Genus Saxicola, 396; Two Interesting Records 

 for Canada, 396; Some Erroneous Wisconsin Bird Records, 397; Rar» 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 

 Migration,' 403; Pycraft's 'A History of Birds,' 405; Headley's 'The FUght of 

 Birds,' 406; Howard's 'British Warblers' Part VI, 406; Harterfs 'Vogel der pala- 

 arktischen 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 .lefferson Region, 411; Dill and Bryan on 

 Laysan Island, 412; Economic Publications of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

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

 Outbreak in California, 416; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological 

 Publications, 416; The Food of Birds in Scotland, 417; Scott and Sharpe on the 

 Birds of Patagonia, 417; Kuser's 'Birds of Somerset Hills, 418; Murphy on Birds 

 of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 418; Bragg's Supplement to the Birds of South Carolina, 

 418; Todd on New Neotropical Birds, 419; Coward's 'The Migration of Birds, 419; 

 , 'Oologia Neerlandica,' 420; Morse's Pocket List of Birds of Eastern Massachusetts, 

 420; The Ornithological Joxu-nals, 420; Ornithological Articles in other Journals, 426; 

 PubUcations Received, 426. 



Correspondence. — Sclater's Contour Map of Colorado, 429; A Correction, 429; Con- 

 cealing Coloration, 430. 



Notes and News. — The A. O. U. Check-List and Uniformity in Nomenclatiu'e. 431; 

 Obituary: Alfredo Duges, 434; Eugene W. Gates, 434; The American Museum's 

 Colombian Expedition, 434; Book Notices, 435; The Thirtieth Stated Meeting of 

 the A. O. U., 435. 



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