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Class,' the 'General Characters of Birds,' and the beginning of the 

 ' Plumage of Birds,' the latter by Dr. Hubert Lvman Clark. 



The March number contains : ' Notes on some Yellow-throated Vireo's 

 Nests,' by William R. Maxon ; 'The Birds of the Marianne Islands and 

 their Vernacular Names. — I,' by W. E. Satford ; ' Notes on McCown's 

 Longspur in Montana,' by P. M. Silloway ; ' The Carib Grassquit {Euetheia 

 bicolor otnissa),'' by B. S. Bowdish ; ' Board and Lodging for Birds' ; ' An 

 Albino Vesper Sparrow,' by R. W. Williams, Jr. ; ' The Thick-billed Red- 

 wing, a new bird record for Iowa,' by [P.] Bartsch ; ' Biographical Notice 

 of John Cassin,' by Theodore Gill. Brief obituaries of Hugh Alexander 

 Macpherson and Alpheus Hyatt complete the number, to which are added 

 pp. 13, 14 of the ' General History of Birds.' 



The April number has : ' The Feeding Habits of the Coot and other 

 Water Birds,' by Barton Warren Evermann, and 'The Birds of the Mari- 

 anne Islands and their Vernacular Names, by W. E. Safford (continued 

 from March number). Pages 15-20 of the ' General History of Birds ' are 

 added, treating of ' Moulting or Molting,' by William Palmer. A half- 

 tone frontispiece gives portraits of John Cassin, Thomas Wilson (two 

 views), and George A. McCall. There is a short note on each of the two 

 latter on p. 96 of the June number, and a biographical notice of the first 

 in the March number (pp. 50-53). 



The INIav number contains : 'Winter Water Fowl of the Des Moines 

 Rapids,' by Ed. S. Currier; 'The Destruction of Birds by Lighthouses,' 

 by Bernard J. Bretherton ; and 'The Porto Rican Pewee [Blacicus blancot), 

 by B. S. Bowdish. There is a further installment (pp. 21-26) of the 

 'General History of Birds,' being the beginning of ' Chapter II, General 

 Anatomy,' by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. 



The June number contains : ' The Mississippi Kite (Iciiiiia jiit'ssissippi- 

 enst's),' by Albert Franklin Ganier ; ' Recent Views of the Sable Island or 

 Ipswich Sparrow,' by W. E. Saunders ; and ' Northern Parula Warbler,' 

 by J. Merton Swain. Also pp. 27-34 of the ' General History of Birds,' 

 continuing the chapter on ' General Anatomy.' 



The July number (so far as we know not yet — Sept. 15, 1903 — dis- 

 tributed to subscribers, although printed some months ago) contains 

 * Notes on Birds of the Pribilof Islands,' by Dr. D. W. Prentiss, Jr. ; ' A 

 Study of the Genus Peri'soreus,' by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr.; 'The 

 Cerulean Warbler, a Summer Resident near Washington,' by William R. 

 Maxon; 'Notice of Dr. James G. Cooper,' by William H. Dall, copied 

 from ' Science (only part here published and marked ' to be continued ') ; 

 and pp. 35-42 of the General History of Birds.' A frontispiece half-tone 

 illustrates the 'Mississippi Kite and Nest,' and there is a portrait of the 

 late Dr. J. G. Cooper. 



'The Osprey,' never a model in promptness of publication, has of late 

 fallen far below its usual standard, the last number bearing date July, 

 1902. We certainly hope this does not indicate its permanent demise, for 

 it has always been a useful Journal and is already greatly missed. — 

 J. A. A. 



