CONTENTS. 



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Description of a New Oriole (Icterus fuertesi) from Mexico. By Frank M. 



Chapman. (Plate I.) .......... . 1 



Annotated List of the Birds of Harding County, South Dakota. By 



Stephen Sargent Visher ........... 5 



Double-crested Cormorants Breeding in Central Illinois. By Frank 



Smith .............. 16 



The Warblers in Wayne County, Michigan in 1909. By J. Claire Wood 19 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of Gallatin County, Montana. By Aretas 



A. Saunders ............. 26 



The Passenger Pigeon Investigation. By C. F. Hodge ..... 49 



A Description of the Wild Pigeons which Visit the Southern English Col- 

 onies in North America, during Certain Years, in Incredible Multi- 

 tudes. By Pehr Kalm. Translated by 8. M. Gronberger .... 53 



A Year's Collecting in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. By Joltn C. 



Phillips ............. 67 



Concerning the Nuptial Plumes worn by Certain Bitterns and the Man- 

 ner in which They are Displayed. By William Brewster .... 90 



Twenty-eighth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



By John H. Sage ". 100 



General Notes. — Columbus holbwli in Kansas, 107; A Third .South Carolina Record 

 for the Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata aquila), 107; The Color of the Gular Sac of the 

 Water-Turkey (Anhinga anhinga), 107; A Nest of the Florida Gallinule, 108; Wil- 

 son's Phalarope, A New Species for South Carolina, 109; Baird's Sandpiper in 

 Massachusetts, 110: Eskimo Curlew, 110; Kaltn's Articles on the Passenger Pigeon, 

 110; Thoreau's Notes on the Passenger Pigeon, 111; Black Vulture in Sfuben 

 County. N. Y, — A Correction. 112; Black Vulture in Virginia, 112; A Fourth 

 South Carolina Record for the Saw-whet Owl, 112; Breeding of the Barn Owl, 112; 

 White Pelican in South Carolina, 113; The Evening Grosbeak at Boston, Mass.. 113; 

 Lapland Longspur and other Birds in Delaware. 114; The Lark Sparrow in Massa- 

 chusetts, 114; A Note on the Prothonotary Warbler, 115; A Third Autumnal 

 Record of Kirtland's Warbler for South Carolina, 116; A' Mockingbird in Rhode 

 Island, 116: A Pair of Mockingbirds near Boston in 1902, 116; A Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher in Brookline and Boston, Mass.. 117; An Albino Robin, 118; Notes from 

 Boulder Co., Colorado, 118; Two Unusual Massachusetts Records, 119; Old Records 

 for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 119; Massachusetts Notes, 120; Number of 

 Species and Subspecies in the New A. O. U. Check-List: A Correction, 122. 



Recent Literature. — Carriker on the Birds of Costa Rica, 122; Ferry on a Collec- 

 tion of Birds from Costa Rica. 125; 'A Naturalist in the Bahamas.' 126: Cooke's 

 'Distribution and Migration of North American Shorebirds.' 126; Beck's 'Water 

 Birds of the Vicinity of Point Pinos, California,' 128; Townsend's A Labrador 

 Spring,' 129: Hartert on the Proper Names of Various Species of British Birds, 130: 

 Gladstone's 'The Birds of Dumfriesshire,' 131: Report on the Immigration of 

 Summer Residents in England and Wales in the Spring of 1909, 132: Beetham's 

 'The Home-Life of the Spoonbill, the Stork and Some Herons' 132: Simon on the 

 Hummingbirds of Ecuador, 133: Cunning and Haagner's 'A Check-List of the 

 Birds of South Africa.' 133'; Rubow's 'The Sea Gull,' 135: Mathews's The Birds 

 of Australia,' 135: Bird Enemies of the Texas-fever Tick and other Ticks, 136; 

 Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications. 138; Publications 

 Received, 142. 



Correspondence. — The Extermination of the Wild Turkey in the State of Virginia, 

 144; Concealing Coloration, 146. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Charles Otis Whitman. 149; Manly Hardy. 149. Ill- 

 ness of William Dutcher, 151; Ornithological Explorations, 151. 



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