CONTENTS. 



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Notes on Pelican Island. By Geo. Nelson. (Plates IV-VII.) . . . 393 



The Expression of Emotion in the Pigeons. II. The Mourning Dove 



{Zenaidura macroura). By Wallace Craig ....... 398 



The Expression of Emotion in the Pigeons. III. The Passenger Pigeon 



(Ectopistes migratorius). By Wallace Craig ....... 408 



Other Early Records of the Passenger Pigeon. By Albert Hazen Wright 427 



A Comparative Study at Cobb's Island, Va. By Alfred B. Howell . . 449 



Bird Protection in Foreign Lands. By G. Eifrig ...... 453 



Concealing Coloration: A Demand for Investigation of my Tests of the 



Effacive Power of Patterns. By Abbott H. Thayer .... 460 



Notes from Eastern Alberta. By Winthrop S. Brooks and Stanley Cobb . 465 



A Note on the Nesting of the Whip-poor-will. By A. Dawes Du Bois . 469 



Roosevelt's 'Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals.' 



By J. A. Allen 472 



General Notes. — The Dovekie in Maine in S umm er, 481; The Greater Shearwater on 

 the Coast of Georgia, 481; Pomarine Jaeger Capturing a Phalarope, 482; Egrets 

 (Herodias egretta) in Massachusetts, 482; The Egret in Plymouth County, Mass., 

 482; The Egret in Marshfleld, Mass., 483; The Black-bellied Plover in Center 

 County, Pa., 484; Rough-legged Hawk (Archibuteo sancti-johannis), 485; Buteo 

 platypterus Eating Minnows, 485; The Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus erythroph- 

 thalmus) Breeding on the Coast of South Carolina, 485; Northern Flicker (Colaptes 

 <• auratus luteus) in San Juan County, Wash., 486; Numbers of the Meadowlark still 

 Increasing in Maine, 486; The English Sparrow at Tucson, Arizona, 486; White- 

 crowned Sparrow in Cuba, 488; The Scarlet Tanager (Piranga erythromelas) on the 

 Coast of South Carolina, 488; Rare Swallows in Georgia, 488; A Peculiar Variation 

 in the Louisiana Water-Thrush (Seiurus motacilla), 488, Nests of the San Nicolas 

 Rock Wren, 489; The Bewick's Wren in Center County, Pa., 489; Wood Thrush 

 at Newbury, Vt., 489; Note on two Unrecognized Forms of North American Birds, 

 489; Lark Bunting in New Brunswick, 490; Some New Birds for Colorado, 490; 

 Notes on Rare Species in Eastern Missouri, 490; New Greenland Records, 492; 

 Notes on Birds of Seattle, Wash., 492; Professor Whitman's Collection of Pigeons, 

 494. 



Recent Literature. — Mathews's Proposed Changes in the Nomenclature of Birds, 

 495; Hancock's 'Nature Sketches in Temperate America,' 498; Curl's 'Notes on 

 the- Digestive System of Hydrocorax,' 499; Oberholser's Revision of the Ladder- 

 backed Woodpeckers, 500; Oberholser's Revision of the Hairy Woodpeckers, 500; 

 Nelson on a New Hummingbird from Panama, 501; McGregor on Birds of the 

 Philippine Islands, 501; Reichenow on African Birds, 502; Mathews's 'The Birds 

 of Australia,' 503; Pearl on the Relative Conspicuousness of Barred and Self- 

 colored Fowls, 504; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 

 505; An Australian Bird Book, 509; 'Bird Stories from Burroughs,' 510; McAtee's 

 Local Names of Water-fowl and other Birds,' 510; Game Protection in the United 

 States, 511; Cooke on Migration Routes of North American Birds, 512; Real on 

 the Food of Woodpeckers, 513; Publications Received, 514. 



Correspondence. — Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of Shorebirds,' 517. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Adolf Bernhard Mayer, 519. Illness of Mr. William 

 Dutcher, 519; Mr. A. C. Bent's Expedition to the Aleutian Islands .520; Biological 

 Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, 520; The B. O. U. Expedition to New Guinea, 

 521; The Royal A. O. U., 521; Announcement of a new work on South American 

 Birds, 521: Proposed new Check- List of British Birds, 522; Circular of the Com- 

 mittee in Charge of Bird Banding, 523; The use of Trinomials in the present volume 

 of 'The Auk.' 523; The Seventh Annual Meeting of the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 524; The Twenty-ninth Stated Meeting of the A. O. U., 524. 



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