Contents of Volume XXVIII. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Nesting of Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata aquila) in Cuba, 254; Ameri- 

 can Merganser in South Carolina, 254; Additional Records of 

 the European Widgeon (Mareca penelope), 254; A Banded Bald- 

 pate shot at Currituck, N. C, 255; A Second European Teal 

 (Nettion crecca) in Maine, 255; The White-winged Scoter (Oidemia 

 deglandi) in South Carolina, 255; Early Date for the Ruddy Duck, 

 256; A Wood Ibis Record for Michigan, 256; The Nuptial 

 Plumes of Bitterns: A Correction, 256; Nesting of the King 

 and Virginia Rails (Rallus elegans et virginianus) in Philadelphia 

 County, Pa., 256; Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa hcemaslica) in 

 Massachusetts, 257; Note on the Killdeer in Maine, 259; The 

 Passenger Pigeon in Missouri Fifty Years Ago, 259; Passenger 

 Pigeons in Eastern Iowa, in 1856-1860, 261; Old Notes on the 

 Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius), 261; The Passenger 

 Pigeon — Only One Bird Left, 262; A Recent Turkey Vulture 

 (Cathartes aura septentrionalis) in Maine, and Revision of Earlier 

 Records, 263; The Pigeon Hawk (Falco columbarius) Wintering 

 on the Coast of South Carolina, 264; Recent Winter Occurrences 

 of Two Hawks in Maine, 265; The Saw-whet Owl in Georgia, 265; 

 A Snowy Owl in New Jersey, 266; Northern Pileated Woodpecker 

 in Massachusetts, 266; Breeding of the Raven in Pennsylvania, 

 266; Clarke's Nutcracker in Illinois, 266; Evening Grosbeak 

 (Hesperiphona vespertina) at Lyons, N. Y., 266; The Evening 

 Grosbeak in New Hampshire, 267; The Evening Grosbeak at 

 Lancaster, Mass., 267; Harris's Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula) 

 in Southern Idaho, 267; Nesting of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak 

 near Philadelphia, Pa., 268; The Orange-crowned Warbler in 

 Pennsylvania, 268; The Cuban Pine Warbler, 268; A New Breed- 

 ing Record for Wayne Co., Michigan, 269; Townsend's Solitaire 

 in Eastern South Dakota, 270; A Remarkable Number of 

 Robins in Maine in Winter, 270; Winter Ranges of Geese on the 

 Gulf Coast; Notable Bird Records for the same Region, 272; 

 Enormous Death Rate among Water Fowl near Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, Fall of 1910, 274; Notes on Some Species from Eastern 

 Oregon, 274; Notes on Some Birds Rare or New to Wisconsin, 

 275; Long Island Notes, 276. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Swarth on the Birds and Mammals of the 1909 Alexander Alaska 

 Expedition, 277; Tracy's 'Significance of White Markings in 

 Birds of the Order Passer if ormes,' 278; Grinnell's 'American 

 Game-Bird Shooting,' 279; Report of the Chief of the Bureau 

 of Biological Survey for 1910, 280; Jacobs on the Purple Martin 

 and Houses for its Summer Home, 281 ; ' How to Attract and Pro- 

 tect Wild Birds,' 281; Economic Ornithology in recent Entomo- 

 logical Publications, 282; Corrections and Additions to January 

 Installment of Economic Ornithology, 287; Faxon on Brewster's 

 Warbler, 287; 'Cassinia,' 288; Mathews's 'Birds of Australia,' 

 289; McGee's 'Notes on the Passenger Pigeon,' 289; Publica- 

 tions Received, 290. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: George Ernest Shelley, 291; Manly Hardy, 291. Annual 

 Meeting of the New York State Audubon Society, 291; Change 

 of Address of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 291; Ornithological Expeditions, 291. 



