CONTENTS. 



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The Western Field Sparrow {Spizella piisilla arenacea Chadbournb). By Charles W. 



Richmond. (Plate III.) 345 



Notes on the Birds of Fort She'rman, Idaho. By/. C. Merrill, Major and Szirgeoji 



U. S. Army. -<4, 



Birds Observed on a Collecting Trip to Bermudez, Venezuela. By William Henry 



Phelps. With Critical Notes and Descriptions of Two New Species. By Frank 



M. Chapman. ................ 357 



The Horned Larks of Maine. By O. IV. Knight 372 



Notes on the American Barn Owl in Eastern Pennsylvania. By J. Harris Reed. 374 



The Terns OF Muskeget Island, Massachusetts. Part III. By Georg-e H. Mackay. . 383 



Critical Notes on the Genus Auriparus. By Harry C. Oberholser 390 



Directive Coloration of Birds. By Ernest Seton Thompson. (Plate IV.) .... 395 



New Race of Sfinus tristis from the Pacific Coast. By Joseph Grinnell. . . . 397 



The Sitkan Kinglet. By IVilliatn Palmer. 399 



General notes. — Early notice of Gavia adamsi, 402; The Least Tern Breeding on Martha's Vine- 

 yard Island, Massachusetts, 402 ; The Terns of Penikese — a Correction, 402 ; Capture of the Little 

 Blue Heron in Connecticut, 402 ; j-Egialitis nivosa in Florida, 402 ; Buteo alhicandatus in Arizona, 

 403 ; Additional Records of the Flammulated Owl (Megascops Jiammeola) 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 insulicola, 405 ; The White- 

 throated Sparrow Breeding at Hubbardston, Mass., 406; Henslow's Sparrow in Michigan — a 

 Correction, 406; Nesting of Cardinalis cardinalis at Nyack, N. V., 406 ; Notes on the Moult 

 and certain Plumage Phases of Piranga rubra, ^ob; Purple Martins (Progne snbis) Breeding in 

 Electric Arc-light Caps, 407 ; The Tree Swallow Breeding in Virginia, 40S ; Rough-winged 

 Swallows (Stelgidofiteryx serripe>inis)m 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 Philadelpliia, 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 Light- 

 houses, 415; Cory's Shore Birds of North America, 418 ; Chapman's ' Handbook,' 4th Edition, 419 ; 

 Hartert on the Podargida;, Caprimulgidae and Macropterygidje, 419 •. Meams on the '-Ornithological 

 Vocabulary of the Moki 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 American Ornithologists' Union, 430 ; 

 Obituary, Sir Edward Newton 431 ; Memorial to Henry Davis Minot, 431 ; New Publications, 

 431 ; British Museum Collection of Birds, Nests, and Eggs, 432. 



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