Contents of Volume XXVIII. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Carriker on the Birds of Costa Rica, 122; Ferry on a Collection of 

 Birds from Costa Rica, 125; 'A Naturalist in the Bahamas,' 126; 

 Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of North American Shore- 

 birds,' 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; Gunning 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, 13(5; Economic Ornithology 

 in Recent Entomological Publications, 138; Publications Received, 

 142. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Extermination of the Wild Turkey in the State of, Virginia, 1 14; 

 Concealing Coloration, 146. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



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Obituary: Charles Otis Whitman, 149; Manly Hardy, 14.&. Illness 

 of William Dutcher, 151; Ornithological Explorations, l£>l. « 



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Eggs of the Spoon-bill Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus). 



By John E. Thayer. (Plates II and III.) .... 153 



Nest Life of the Screech Owl. By Althea R. Sherman . . 155 

 Notes Extending the Range of Certain Birds on the Pacific 



Slope. By J. H. Bowles 169 



Concealing Coloration Again. By Thomas Barbour and John 



C. Phillips 179 



Ten Years of Observation on the Migration of Anatidae at 



Wenham Lake, Massachusetts. By J. C. Phillips . . 188 

 The Birds of Kerrville, Texas, and Vicinity. By Howard 



Lacey 200 



A Drop of Four Thousand Feet. By Florence Merriam Bailey 219 

 Notes on the Fruit-eating Habits of the Sage Thrasher in the 



Yakima Valley. By Clarence Hamilton Kennedy . . . 225 

 Notes on some Summer and Fall Birds of the Crooked Lake 



Region, Cass and Crow Wing Counties, Minn. By Albert 



W. Honywill, Jr , 229 



The Bahaman Species of Geothlypis. By W, E. Clyde Todd J , 237 



