Confenfs of Volume AIV, vii 



Notes on the Birds Peculiar to Laysan Island, Hawaiian 



Group. By Walter K. Fisher. (Plates XII-XVI.) . . 384 



The Black-winged Palm Tanager. By Austin H. Clark. . 398 



Notes on the Anatomy of Geospiza., Cocomis and Certhidia. 



By Robert E. Snodgrass. (Plates XVII-XX.) . . .402 



A Contribution to the Life History of the Herring Gull 

 (Larus argentatus) IN the United States. By William 

 Dutclier and William Baily. Plates XXI and XXII.) . . 417 



A New Subspecies of Nighthawk from the Bahama Islands. 



By /. H. Riley 431 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Sabine's Gull at Monterey, California, 433 ; The Snowy Plover in the 

 Bahamas, 433 ; Richardson's Owl (Nyctala tengmalmi richard- 

 soni) in Illinois, 433 ; Capture of the Barn Owl [Strix praiiticola) 

 on Long Island, New York, 434 ; The Second Known Specimen 

 of Centurus uyeanus Ridgwa}', 434; Nighthawk Migration in New 

 Hampshire, 434 ; Nests and Eggs of Cceligenn clemencies 435 ; 

 Mortality of Purple Martins (Progne purpurea) at Brattleboro, 

 Vt., 435; Sand Swallows (Riparia riparia) Nesting in Sawdust, 

 436; An interesting Solitary Vireo {Virco solitarius), 437; Bell's 

 Vireo (Vireo bellii) in Colorado, 43S ; Nest and Eggs of the 

 Swainson's Warbler (Helinaia srvai/isottii), 438; Springfield, 

 Mass., Bird Notes, 439 ; Some New Records for Nova Scotia, 

 439 ; Formalin Fails as an Insecticide for Dermestes, 440. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Macoun's ' Catalogue of Canadian Birds,' Part II, 441 ; Dresser's 'A 

 Manual of Paliearctic Birds,' 441 ; Huntington's ' Our Feathered 

 Game,' 443 ; Degen on the "Perennial Moult" of the Australian 

 Piping Crow, 444 ; Weed's Bibliography of Economic Ornithol- 

 ogy, 446 ; Howe and Sturtevant's Revised List of the Birds of 

 Rhode Island, 446 ; Stone on Birds of Southern New Mexico 

 and Western Texas, 447 ; Oberholser, on New Birds from Texas, 

 447; Bonhote's List of Birds collected in the Bahamas, 447 ; Sher- 

 born's 'Index Animalium,' 448; 'The Index Zoologicus,' 450; 

 Ornithological Magazines — ' The Osprey,' 451 ; Chapman's ' The 

 Economic Value of Birds to the State,' 453; Publications 

 » Received, 454. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Use of Trinomials, 454. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Twenty-first Congress of the American Ornithologii5ts' Union, 

 457; Obituary; Prof. Wilbur Clinton Knight, 457; Dr. Gusta\' 

 F. R. von Radde, 458. Discover}' of the Breeding Area of Kirt- 

 land's Warbler, 459 ; Annual meeting of the Bi-itish Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, 1903, 459; Parrots in the London Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, 460; ' Our Animal Friends,' 460. 



