Contents of Volume XXVIII. 



Chapman's Expedition to Western Colombia, 391 ; Return of 

 the Kuser Asiatic Pheasant Expedition, 391. Passage of the 

 'No Sale of Game Bill' by the New York Legislature, 392. 



NUMBER IV 



Page 

 Notes on Pelican Island. By Geo. Nelson. (Plates IV-VII.) . 393 

 The Expression of Emotion in the Pigeons. II. The Mourn- 

 ing Dove (Zenaidura macroura). By Wallace Craig . . 398 

 The Expression of Emotion in the Pigeons. III. The Passen- 

 ger Pigeon (Ectopistes migralorius). By Wallace Craig . 408 

 Other Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon. By Albert 



Hazen Wright 427 



A Comparative Study at Cobb's Island, Va. By Alfred B. Howell 449 

 Bird Protection in Foreign Lands. By G. Eifrig . . . 453 

 Concealing Coloration: A Demand for Investigation of my 

 Tests of the Effaciye Power of Patterns. By Abbott H. 



Thayer 460 



Notes from Eastern Alberta. By Winthrop S. Brooks and 



Stanley Cobb 465 



A Note on the Nesting of the Whip-poor-will. By A. Dawes 



Du Bois 469 



Roosevelt's 'Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds 



and Mammals.' By J. A. Alien 472 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Dovekie in Maine in Summer, 481; The Greater Shearwater on 

 the Coast of Georgia, 481; Pomarine Jaeger Capturing a Phala- 

 rope, 482; Egrets (Herodias egretta) in Massachusetts, 482; The 

 Egret in Plymouth County, Mass., 482; The Egret in Marshfield, 

 Mass., 483; The Black-bellied Plover in Center County, Pa., 484; 

 Roughdegged Hawk (Archibuteo sancti-johaunis), 485; Buteo 

 platypterus Eating Minnows, 485; The Black-billed Cuckoo {Coc- 

 cyzus erythrophthalmus) Breeding on the Coast of South Carolina, 

 485; Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus luteus) in San Juan 

 County, Wash., 486; Numbers of the Meadowlark still Increasing 

 in Maine, 486; The English Sparrow at Tucson, Arizona, 486; 

 White-crowned Sparrow in Cuba, 488; The Scarlet Tanager 

 (Piranga erythromelas) on the Coast of South Carolina, 488; Rare 

 Swallows in Georgia, 488; A Peculiar Variation in the Louisiana 

 Water-Thrush (Seiurus motaciHa), 488; Nests of the San Nicolas 

 Rock Wren, 489; The Bewick's Wren in Center County, Pa., 489; 

 Wood Thrush at Newbury, Vt., 489; Note on two Unrecognized 

 Forms of North American Birds, 489; Lark Bunting in New 

 Brunswick, 490; Some New Birds for Colorado, 490; Notes on 

 Rare Species in Eastern Missouri, 490; New Greenland Records, 

 492; Notes on Birds of Seattle, Wash., 492; Professor Whitman's 

 Collection of Pigeons, 494. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Mathews's Proposed Changes in the Nomenclature of Birds, 495; 

 Hancock's 'Nature Sketches in Temperate America,' 498; Curl's 

 'Notes on the Digestive System of Hydrocorax,' 499; Oberholser's 



