viii Contents of Volume A'lY. 



Index ............. 461 



Errata 480 



Contents of Volume XX. iii 



Officers, Committees, and Members of the American 



Ornithologist's Union, 1902-1903. ix 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Plate I. Cardinal, Nesting in a Conservatory. 

 " II. Crows, dead from an Epidemic of Roup. 

 " III.i Map showing States which have adopted the A. O. U. Model 



Law. 

 " IV.' Map showing States which have Audubon Societies. 

 " V. Fig. I. Brown Pelican and Nest ; Fig. 2. A Corner of Pelican 



Island. 

 " VI. Fig. 1. Common Tern on Nest; Fig. 2. Young Common Tern, 



hiding. 

 " VII. Preserving Equilibrium. 



" VIII. View in Lake Valley, California, showing Transition, Cana- 

 dian, Hudsonian, and Alpine Zones. 

 " IX. Wright's Lake, northwest of Pyramid Lake, California. 

 " X. Young Ducks (various species). 

 " XL Nest and Eggs of Philadelphia \"ireo. 

 " XII. Laysan Finch and Nest. 

 " XIII. Fig. I. Laysan Finch eating Tern's Egg; Fig. 2. Laysan 



Rail eating Tern's Egg. 

 " XI\\ Acrocephalus fatniliaris and Nest. 

 " XV. Laysan Rail and Nest. 

 " XVI. Nest and Young of Laysan Teal. 



" XVII-XX. Anatomy of Geosptza, Cocornis, and Certhidia. 

 " XXI. Fig. I. Rocky Shore, Great Duck Island, Maine ; Fig. 2. 



Herring Gulls, Great Duck Island, Maine. 

 " XXII. Young Herring Gulls and pipped Eggs. 



' Plate III should be numbered Plate IV and Plate III should be num- 

 bered Plate III, to correspond with the references to them in the text. 



