vi Contents of Volume XXVIII. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 



Distribution of the Mockingbird in California. By Joseph 



Grinnell. (With Map.) 293 



Description of a Species of Procellaria which is found at the 

 North Pole. By Anton Rolandson Martin, Med. Stud. Trans- 

 lated by S. M. Gronberger 300 



List of Birds observed in Estes Park, Colorado, from June 10 



to July 18, 1910. By Otto Widmann 304 



Two Unusual Flights of Canada Geese noted in Massachu- 

 setts during the Fall of 1910. By ./. C. Phillips . . 319 



A Study of the Nesting of the Cedar Waxwing. By Aretas 



A. Saunders .......... 323 



Notes on the Migration of the Saw-whet Owl. By P. A. 



T aver ner and B. H . Swales ....... 329 



The English Sparrow as an Agent in the Dissemination op 



Chicken and BIrd Mites. By E. H. Ewing . . 335 



The Courtship and Migration of the Red-breasted Merganser 



(Mergus senator). By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . 341 



Other Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon. By Alfred 



Hazen Wright 346 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A Case of the Migration and Return of the European Teal in Massa- 

 chusetts, 366; Records of Butorides brunnescens in Cuba, 367; 

 "Nuptial Plumes" of the American Bittern, 367; The Sandhill 

 Crane (Grus mexicana) in Ohio, 368; A Woodcock in New York 

 City, 368; A Golden Plover in Massachusetts in April, 368; 

 The Troupial at Santa Barbara, Cal., 368; The Western Even- 

 ing Grosbeak in Denver, Colorado, 369; An Unusual Occurrence 

 of the Pine Grosbeak in Rhode Island, 369; Orange-crowned War- 

 bler at Youngstown, Ohio, 370; Brewster's Warbler, 370; Black- 

 throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica cwrulescens cozrulescens) Nest- 

 ing in Sterling, Mass., 371; Notes on a Massachusetts Mocking- 

 bird, 372. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway on New Forms of Picidse, 374; Oberholser on the Flycatchers 

 of the Genera Hypothymis and Cyanonympha, 374; Roberts's 

 'The Evening Grosbeak in Minnesota,' 374; Beetham's 'Photog- 

 raphy for Bird-Lovers,' 375; Mathews's 'Birds of Australia,' 

 376; Menegaux on the Birds of Ecuador, 376; Hellmayr's 'The 

 Birds of the Rio Madeira,' 376; 'Feathers and Facts,' 377; Boas 

 on Rooks and on Damage done by them in Denmark, 378; Hunt- 

 ington's 'Our Wild Fowl and Waders,' 379; Papers on Tick-eating 

 Birds, 383; Grinnell on 'The Linnet of the Hawaiian Islands,' 

 384; Grinnell on 'The Modesto Song Sparrow,' 384; Publica- 

 tions Received, 385. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Henry A. Purdie, 387; George Ernest Shelley, 387; Dr. 

 Gustav Edler von Hayek, 388 ; Dr. Carl Parrot, 388. Oologia 

 Neerlandica, 389; New Director of American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, 389. Ornithological Explorations: Departure of Mr. 

 A. C. Bent for the Aleutian Islands, 389; Results of Dr. Charles H. 

 Townsend's Expedition to Lower California, 389; Mr. Frank M. 



