viii Contents of Volume XXVIII. 



Revision of the Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, 500; Oberholser's 

 Revision of the Hairy Woodpeckers, 500; Nelson on a New 

 Hummingbird from Panama, 501; McGregor on Birds of the 

 Philippine Islands, 501; Reichenow on African Birds, 502; 

 Mathews's 'The Birds of Australia,' 503; Pearl on the Relative 

 Conspicuousness of Barred and Self-colored Fowls, 504; Eco- 

 nomic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 505; 

 An Australian Bird Book, 509; ' Bird Stories from Burroughs/ 510; 

 McAtee's ' Local Names of Water-fowl and other Birds,' 510; 

 Game Protection in the United States, 511; Cooke on Migration 

 Routes of North American Birds, 512; Beal on the Food of Wood- 

 peckers, 513; Publications Received, 514. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of Shorebirds,' 517. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Adolf Bernhard Meyer, 519. Illness of William Dutcher, 

 519; Mr. A. C. Bent's Expedition to the Aleutian Islands, 519; 

 Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 520; The B. O. U. 

 Expedition to New Guinea, 521; The Royal A. O. U., 521; An- 

 nouncement of a new work on South American Birds, 521; Pro- 

 posed new Check-List of British Birds, 521 ; Circular of the Com- ' 

 mittee in Charge of Bird Banding, 521 ; The use of Trinomials in 

 the present volume of 'The Auk,' 522; The Twenty-ninth 

 Stated Meeting of the A. (). U., 52:;. Page 



Index ............ 525 



Errata 549 



Contents of Volume ......... iii 



Officers and Committees . ix 



List of Fellows, Members, and Associates .... x 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plates. i 



Plate I. Fuertes's Oriole (Icterus fuertesi Chapman). 



" II. Spoon-bill Sandpiper, heads and bills of Adult and Young. 



" III. Eggs of Spoonbill Sandpiper. 



" IV. Old Pelican Island, Florida, 1909. 



" V. New Pehcan Island, Florida, 1911. 



" VI. 1. Shore scene on New Pelican Island; 2, Pelicans yawning. 



" VII. 1. Pelicans stretching; 2, Ceremony of Nest-relief. 



Text-cuts. 



Page 



Sketch Map of State of Tamaulipas, Mexico 68 



Map of Kerr County, Texas . . . . . . . .201 



Figs. 1-3, Bunches of Campbell's Early Grapes, showing depredations 



by the Sage Thrasher ........ 226 



Map of the Crooked Lake Region, Minnesota .... 230 



Map showing distribution of the Mockingbird in California (facing) 293 

 The Chicken-mite of poultry houses ...... 336 



Mouth parts of Chicken and Bird Mites 337 



1 ' The Auk" is indebted for Plates II and III to Mr. John E. Thayer. 



