CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVIII. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 



Description of a New Oriole {Icterus fuertesi) from Mexico. By 



Frank M. Chapman. (Plate I.) 1 



Annotated List of the Birds of Harding County, South 



Dakota. By Stephen Sargent Visher ..... 5 



Double-crested Cormorants Breeding in Central Illinois. 



By Frank Smith 16 



The Warblers in Wayne County, Michigan, in 1909. By J. 



Claire Wood 19 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of Gallatin County, Mon- 

 tana. By Aretas A. Saunders ...... 26 



The Passenger Pigeon Investigation. By C. F. Hodge . . 49 



A Description of the Wild Pigeons which Visit the Southern 

 English Colonies in North America, during Certain 

 Years, in Incredible Multitudes. By Pehr Kalm. 

 Translated by S. M. Gronberger ...... 53 



A Year's Collecting in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. By 



John C. Phillips 67 



Concerning the Nuptial Plumes worn by Certain Bitterns 

 and the Manner in which They are Displayed. By 

 William Breivster ......... 90 



Twenty-eighth Stated Meeting of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union. By John H. Sage 100 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Colymbus holboetii in Kansas, 107: A Third South Carolina Record 

 for the Man-o'-war-binl (Fregata aquila), 107; The Color of the 

 Gular Sac of the Water-Turkey (Anhinga anhinga), 107; A Nest 

 of the Florida Gallinule, 108; Wilson's Phalarope, A New Species 

 for South Carolina, 190; Baird's Sandpiper in Massachusetts, 

 110; Eskimo Curlew, 110; Kalm's Articles on the Passenger 

 Pigeon, 110; Thoreau's Notes on the Passenger Pigeon, 111; 

 Black Vulture in Stuben County, N. Y. — A Correction, 112; 

 Black Vulture in Virginia, 112; A Fourth South Carolina Record 

 for the Saw-whet Owl, 112; Breeding of the Barn Owl, 112; White 

 Pelican in South Carolina, 113; The Evening Grosbeak at 

 Boston, Mass., 113; Lapland Longspur and other Birds in Dela- 

 ware, 114; The Lark Sparrow in Massachusetts, 114; A Note on 

 the Prothonotary Warbler, 115; A Third Autumnal Record of 

 Kirt land's Warbler for South Carolina, 116; A Mockingbird in 

 Rhode Island, 116; A Pair of Mockingbirds near Boston, in 1902, 

 116; A Blue-gray Gnat catcher in Brookline and Boston, Mass., 

 117; An Albino Robin, 118; Notes from Boulder Co., Colorado, 

 118; Two Unusual Massachusetts Records, 119; Old Records 

 for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 119; Massachusetts Notes, 

 120; Number of Species and Subspecies in the New A. O. U. 

 Check-List: A Correction, 122. 



