CONTENTS. 



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169 



Eggs of the Spoon-bill Sandpiper {Eurynorhynchus pygmeus). By John E 



Thayer. (Plates II and III.) 



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



Notes Extending the Range of Certain Birds on the Pacific Slope. By 



J. H. Bowles 



Concealing Coloration Again. By Thomas Barbour and John C. Phillip.* 179 

 Ten Years of Observation on the Migration of Anatid.e 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 TT. E. Clyde Todd .... 237 



General Notes. — Nesting of Man-o'-war-bird (Fregata aquila) in Cuba, 254; American 

 Merganser in South Carolina, 254; Additional Records of the European Widgeon 

 JMareca penelope). 254; A Banded Baldpate 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 {Rattus elegans et virginianus) in Philadelphia 

 County, Pa., 256; Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa hamastica) 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 (lie 

 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) Winter- 

 ing 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. 260J 

 Northern Pileated Woodpecker in Massachusetts. 266; Breeding of the Raven in 

 Pennsylvania, 266: Clarke's Nutcracker in Illinois, 266; Evening Grosbeak (Hes- 

 periphona vespertina) at Lyons, N. Y., 266; The Evening Grosbeak in New Hamp- 

 shire, 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 Breeding 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 

 Passeriformes,' 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 Protect Wild 

 Birds,' 281; Economic Ornithology in recent Entomological 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: Publications Received, 290. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: George Ernest Shelly, 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. 



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