CONTENTS 



Bird Migration Rbcobds of William Bartram. 1802—1822. By WUmtr Stone. 



(Plates l.x-xn 325 



OONCBBNING the Flight of Gills. By Alexander Forbex .... 359 

 List of Birds Collected in the Territory of Qcintana Roo. MBZICO, in 



the Winter and Si-kino ok 1912. By James L. Peters .... M\7 

 Notes on Swains. ins B v\\ k [Buteo awainsoni) in Montana. By B. S. Cameron. 



(Plates XII-XIII) 381 



A Soccbsbfol Paib ok Robins. By Wineor M. Tyler .If. D 394 



'I'm Stati's ok Lloyd's Bish-Tit as a Bird ok Arizona. By H. S. Swartk 399 

 Anatomi. m. NOTES on Tom.-. OxTRUNCOS and Simndalis. By Hubert Lyman 



Clark- 402 



'I'm Xest Like of thb Sparrow Hawk. By AUkea R. Sherman .... 400 

 Additional Notes FBOH the MOUNTAINS OF Western North Carolina. By 



Francis M. Weston, Jr 418 



Sous North American Birds in Panama. By L. L. Jewel, C. E. i.' . 



Qbnbrai Notes. — Holboell's Grebe {Colymbus holbmlli) al Bedford, Mass.. 429; The 

 Do\. 'kio [AUeaUe): An Addition to the Fauna of South Carolina, 129; White Pelican 

 In Colorado, 430; Budsonlan Godwit. A. Correction, 430; Little Blue Heron [Flor- 

 ida carulea) at Lynn. Mass., 130; The Whooping Crane (Qrus americana) In Nebras- 

 ku. 4:>i>: stilt Sandpipers V ropalama himantopua) at Ethaca, N. v.. 430; Un- 

 usual Plumages of the Oceuated Turkey 1 Agriockaria ocellata), 432; The Passenger 

 Pigeon at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens still living, 433; Nesting of the Barn 

 Owl in Illinois. 433; An Unusual Malady and Probable Cause of Deatb In a Toucan, 

 133; Road Runner In Colorado, 434; Evening Grosbeaks (Heaperiphora teapertina 

 eespertina) at Manchester, N. 11.. 4;?r>: An Abnormal Rose-breasted Grosbeak, i^">; 

 A winter Record of the Brown Thrasher in Lancaster, Mass., t^">; Two Rare Birds 

 for Massachusetts, 435; Birds Observed at Bennington, Vermont, 436; Some Birds 

 of Southwestern Missouri. 487; Birds of the Headwaters of the Gila River, New 

 Mexico: Further Records, 438; Double Bird Tragedy, 138; Asop as a Bird Ob- 

 server, 438; 



Recent Literature. — Ridgway's 'Color standards and Color Nomenclature,' 439; 

 Swann's A Dictionary of English and Folk-Names of British Birds.' 441 : Chap- 

 man's 'Color Key to North American Birds,' 442; Bornaday's 'Our Vanishing Wild 



Life," 442: Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia.' 443: Official Check-List Of the Birds 



of Australia, 445; Riley on Birds of the Mount Robson Region, 447; Riley on New 

 Neotropical Birds, 448; Todd on the Genus Chaamepella, 448; Cory on Now Neo- 

 tropical Birds. 149; Cooke's 'Distribution and Migration of N. A. Herons;' 450; 

 Trotter on Fauna! Divisions in Relation to Vegetation, 450 Thayer and Bangs on 

 Chinese Birds, 451 ; Bangs on Some Birds from t be Blghlands of Siberia, 4">i ; Thayer 

 and Bangs on a Now Race of the Great Blue Heron, 452; Bangs on Now Species of 

 Birds. 452; Zimmer's 'Birds of the Thomas County Forest Reserve/ 458; California 

 Economic Ornithology, 4,">;>: Four Economic Papers i>> Prof. w. K. Oollinge, 453; 

 Henderson's 'The Practical Value of Birds,' 4o4: Recent Educational Publications, 

 155; The Ornithological Journals, 456; Ornithological Articles In Other Journals, 

 id.v Publications Received, 468. 



Corresponded b. — Naturalists and Concealing Coloration. 171. 



\ es lnd News. — Obituary: Berbert Brown. 472; TheStudy of Bird Song, 472; The 

 American Museum's south American Expedition, 474; The Washington Biologists' 

 Field Club, 47.v Nomenclature at the International Zoological Congress, 175; 

 Book Notes, 476. 



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