viii Conte7its of Volume XIV. 



Notes on the American Barn Owl in Eastern Pennsylvania. 



By J. Harris Reed .......... 376 



The Terns of Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, Part III. By 



George H. Mackay .......... 383 



Critical Notes on the Gcnus Auriparus. By Harry C. Ober- 



holser ............ 390 



Directive Coloration of Birds. By Ernest Seton T/iompson. 



(Plate IV.) ■ 395 



New Race of Spi?iHS iristis from the Pacific Coast. By Joseph 



Grinriell ............ 397 



The Sitkan Kinglet. By William Palmer 399 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Early notice of Gavia adamsi, 402; The Least Tern Breeding on 

 Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts, 402; The Terns of 

 Penikese — a correction, 402 ; Capture of the Little Blue Heron 

 in Connecticut, 402; ^gialitis nivesa in Florida, 402; Buteo 

 albicaudatus in Arizona, 403 ; Additional Records of the Flam- 

 mulated Owl {Megascops fiavimeola) in Colorado, 403; Nesting 

 of the Short-eared Owl in Southern California, 404; Partnership 

 Nesting of Valley Partridge and Long-tailed Chat, 404; Nesting 

 Habits of Empidonax instilicola, 405 ; The White-throated Spar- 

 row Breeding at Hubbardston, Mass., 406; Henslow's Sparrow in 

 Michigan — a Correction, 406; Nesting of Cardinalis cardinalis 

 at Nyack, N. Y., 406; Notes on the Moult and Certain Plumage 

 Phases of Piranga rubra, s\o6\ Purple Martins (^Progtie subis) 

 Breeding in Electric Arc-light Caps, 407; The Tree Swallow 

 Breeding in Virginia, 40S ; Rough-winged ^iwaWows {Sielgidop- 

 teryx serripennis^ in Greene and Ulster Counties, N. Y., 40S; 

 Peculiar Nesting of the Maryland Yellow- throat, 40S ; The 

 Names of two Mexican Wrens, 409; Rare Birds in the Vicinity 

 of Philadelphia, 410; Notes on Some Ontario Birds, 410; Rare 

 Birds taken in Toronto and Vicinity. 411 ; Disgorgement among 

 Song-birds, 412; Disgorgement of Cherry Stones again Noted, 

 412 ; Birds' Tongues in Pictures, 413. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



'Citizen Bird,' 413; Birds of Maine, 414; Winge on Birds at the 

 Danish Lighthouses, 415; Cory's Shore Birds of North America, 

 41S; Chapman's 'Handbook,' 4th Edition, 419; Hartert on the 

 Podargidse, Caprimulgidze and Maci-opterygidfe, 419; Mearns 

 on the ' Ornithological Vocabulary of the 5loki Indians,' 420 ; 

 Papers on Economic Ornithology, 420; Whitlock's Review of 

 Herr Gatke's Views on the Migration of Birds, 422 ; Suchetet 

 on Hybrids among Wild Birds, 424; Publications Received, 425. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 The Treatment of ' Nomina Nuda,' 427. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Meeting of the Fifteenth Congress of the A. O. U., 430; Obituary, 

 Sir Edward Newton, 431 ; Memorial to Henry D. Minot, 431 ; 

 Audubon Monument Association of New Orleans, 432: The Col- 

 lection of Birds Eggs in the British Museum, 432. 



