CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE 



To What Extent is it Profitable to Recognize Geographical 



Forms among North American Birds. Bv J. A. Allen . i 

 On the Eastern Forms of Geothlypis trichas. " Bv Frank M. 



Clltlplllllll ........... Q 



A Summary ok Observations on the Birds of the Gulf Coast 



of Florida. By \Y r . E- D. Scott ....... \^ 



Notes on Pipilp fuscus mesoleucus and Pipilo aberti. their Habits, 



Nests and Eggs. By Capt. Charles E. Bendire . . .22 



Observations on some of the Summer Birds of the Mountain 

 Portions of Pickens County, South Carolina. By Leverett 

 M. Loomis. ........... -50 



On the Winter Distribution of the Bobolink (DolicAonyx 

 oryzivorus), with Remarks on its Routes of Migration. 

 By Frank M. Chapman ......... 30 



Observations on the Avifauna of Portions of Arizona. By 



Dr. Edgar A. A/cams . . . . . . . . ■ 4S 



Addendum to 'A List of the Birds of the Hudson Highlands, 



with Annotations.' By Dr. Edgar A. Mearns . . . 55 



Note on the Nesting of Buteo brachyurus at St. Marks, Flor- 

 ida. By C. J. Pen nock 56 



A New Wren from the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, with Notes 

 on Berlandier's Wren of Northeastern Mexico. Bv 

 -George B. Sen net t .......... 57 



Second Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union 



Check-List of North American Birds . . . . .60 



Seventh Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union . 66 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Waterhouse's 'Index Generum Avium,' 71 ; Blanchard on the Nomen- 

 clature of Organized Beings, 73; Ridgway's Ornithology of 

 Illinois, 74; Menzbier's Ornithology of Turkestan, 77; Nehrling's 

 Bird Biographies, 7S ; Minor Ornithological Publications: 79; 

 Publications Received, 86. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



An Early date of a Rare Bird in South Carolina, 8S ; The Mottled 

 Duck in Kansas, 88; Capture of the Widgeon {Anas penelope) on 

 the James River, Virginia, SS; The King Eider (So/nalcria spec- 



