CONTENTS. 



Summer Bird-life of the Newark, New Jersey, Marshes. By Clinton G. Abbott. 



(Plate I) 1 



Notes on the Spring Birds of Tishomingo County, Mississippi. By Andrew 



Allison 12 



The Rio Grande Seedeater, Its Status and Technical History. By J. A. Allen 26 



The Eastern Forms of Geothlypis trichas. By Frank M. Chapman . . 30 



Notes on the Early Life of Loon Chicks. By C. William Beebe. (Plate II) . 34 



Bachman's Warbler Breeding in Logan County, Kentucky. By G. C. Embody 41 

 The Nest and Eggs of Bachman's Warbler, HelminthophUa bachmani (Aud.), 



taken near Charleston, South Carolina. By Arthur T. Wayne . . 43 

 Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird. By 



Ruthven Deane 53 



Birds of Toronto, Canada. II. Land Birds. By James H. Fleming. . . 71 

 Twenty-fourth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. By John 



H. Sage 89 



General Notes. — Capture of the Glaucous Gull {Larus glaums) in Boston Harbor, Mass., 

 94; Recent Occurrence of the European Teal and the Marbled Godwit near Portland, 

 Maine, 94; Baird's Sandpiper at Newfound Lake, Hebron, N. H., 94; Another Limpkin 

 (Aramus giganteus) in South Carolina, 95; Note on the Clapper Rail in Maine, 95; 

 A Wounded Sora's Long Swim, 96; A Florida Gallinule on the Coast of Massachusetts, 

 97; The Short-eared Owl and Savanna Sparrow Breeding in Wayne County, Michigan, 

 97; The Breeding Habits of Empidonax virescens in Connecticut, 99; Empidonax 



friseus Brewster vs. Empidonax canescens Salvin and Godman, 99; The Raven near 

 'ortland, Maine, 100; Two Ravens (Corvus corax principalis) Seen at Harpswell, 

 Maine, 100: The Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthoceplialus xanthocephalus) in Georgia, 

 100; A new Colorado Record for the White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera), 101; 

 An Early Date for the Arrival of the Ipswich Sparrow {Passerculus princeps) on the 

 Coast of South Carolina, 101; Macgillivray's Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus 

 macgillivrayi) with Fourteen Rectrices, 102; the Junco Breeding at Wellrleet, Mass., 102; 

 A New White-throat Song, 102; Scarlet Tanager {Piranga erythromelas) at Ottawa, 

 Canada, 103; The Nesting of Stelgidopteryx serripennis in Norwich, Vt., 103; A New 

 Hampshire Record for Stelgidopteryx serripennis, 104; The Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo 

 philadelphieus) in Georgia, 104; Connecticut Warbler in Maine, 105; Cinclus mexicamis 

 not a Costa Rican Bird, 105; A Carolina Wren in Middlesex Fells, Massachusetts, 105; 

 Some Corrected Records, 106; Rare Northern Birds near Chicago, 111., 107; Telescope 

 Observations of Migrating Birds, 107; A Migration Disaster in Western Ontaria, 108; 

 Early Appearance of Certain Northern Species at Ottawa, Canada, 110; Audubon's 

 Ornithological Biography, 111. 



Recent Literature. — Beebe's 'The Bird,' 112; Hellmayr on Spix's Types of Brazilian 

 Birds, 113; Thayer and Bangs on Sonoran Birds, 114; Lonnberg on the Birds of South 

 Georgia, 115; Harvie-Brown 's 'A Fauna of the Tay Basin,' 115. 



Correspondence. — The Concilium Bibliographicum s><= a Bureau ot Ornithological In- 

 formation, 117. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: William Thomas Blanford, 118; Walter Lawry Buller, 

 119. The Revision of the Code of Nomenclature, etc. 119; Second Annual Meeting 

 of National Association of Audubon Societies, 120; Important Change of Address, 120. 



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