CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 



Notes on a Captive Hermit Thrush. By Daniel E. O-wen . i 

 Recent Investigations of the Food of European Birds. Bv 



F. E. L. Beat \ S 



Some Notes on the Nesting Habits of the White-tailed 



Kite. By Chester Barlow . . . . . . . -14 



Report of the A. O. U. Committee on Protection of North 



American Birds. By William Dutcher . . . . .21 

 Evidence Suggestive of the Occurrence of ' Individual 



Dichromatism ' IN Megascops asio. 'Qy Arthur P. Chadbourne, 



M.D. (Plate I.) . . . . " ^ 



Zamelodia against Habia. By Dr. Elliott Cones . . . -39 

 Preliminary Descriptions of New Birds From Mexico and 



Guatemala in the Collection of the United States 



Department of Agriculture. By E. W. Nelson . . -42 

 Description of a New Subspecies of Dendroica. By Harry C. 



Oberholser ............ 76 



On the Nomenclature of Certain Forms of the Downy 



'WoO'D'P'E.CK.E.K {Dryobates piibescens). By William Brexvster . So 

 Fourteenth Congress of the American Ornithologisls' 



Union. By John H. Sage 82 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Nostrils in Young Cormorants, 87 ; Labrador Duck, 87 ; Nesting 

 of the Larger White-cheeked Goose {Braiita canade7isis occidcn- 

 talis) in Okanogan County, Washington, 87; A New Bird for 

 the Virginias, 88; Asarcia spinosa, 88; The Passenger Pigeon 

 {Ectopisfes migratoriits) in Lewis County, N. Y., 88; Melopelia 

 leuco-ptera in Osceola County, Florida, 88; The California Vul- 

 ture in Alberta, 89; Golden Eagle {Aqitila chrysaetos) taken near 

 New Haven, Conn., 89; Abundance of Owls on the Coast of Brit- 

 ish Columbia, 89; The Cuculid^ of the A. O. U. List, 90; Broad- 

 tailed Hummingbird in California, 91 ; Authority for the Name 

 Alyiarchiis /nexicattus, 92 ; Hepburn's Leucosticte {Leucosticte 

 tephrocotis littoralis) in Summer in Okanogan County, Wash- 

 ington, 92; Anivtodramics {Passercidiis) sanctorum, 92; Occur- 

 rence of Baird's Spairow {Ammodramus bairdii) in Washington, 

 93 ; Acadian Sparrow in Yates County, N. Y., 93 ; Note on Junco 

 antiecte?is Baird and y. ridgwayi Mearns,94; Rectifications of 

 Synonymy of the Genus Junco, 94; Spiza americana near King- 

 ston, N. Y., 95; Correct Nomenclature of the Texas Cardinal, 95. 

 Natural Breeding Haunts of the Barn Swallow {Chelidon erv- 



