viii Contents of Volume XXIV. 



Davenport's 'Birds of Windham and Bennington Counties, Ver- 

 mont,' 456; Herman's The Protection of Birds in Hungary, 456; 

 Williams's 'Game Commissions and Wardens, 457; Anderson's 

 'The Birds of Iowa/ 45S; Rich's ' Feathered Game of the North- 

 east,' 459. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Protective Coloration, 460. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Dr. William LaGrange Ralph, 461. The Seventh Interna- 

 tional Zoological Congress, 462; Twenty-fifth Congress of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, 466. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 

 Plates. 



Plate I. Nest and Eggs of Pied-billed Grebe; Nest and Eggs of Florida 

 Gallinule. 



" II. Loon chicks, 24 and 48 hours old. 



" III. Marbled Godwit : nesting grounds; on its nest; nest and eggs. 



" IV. Hybrid Grouse — Richardson's 4- Sharp-tailed. 



" V. Nesting-site of Duck Hawk on Yellowstone River. 



" VI. Badlands on Yellowstone River. 



" VII. Pine hills and badlands on Yellowstone River. 



" VIII. Young Great-Blue Heron; nest of Long-billed Curlew. 



" IX. Sharp-tailed Grouse; nest of Mourning Dove. 

 ' " X. Goshawk with a Sharp-tailed Grouse (two views). 



" XI. Sparrow Hawk (two views). 



" XII. Nest of Ferruginous Rough-leg; young Western Great- 

 Horned Owls. 



" XIII. A Lapland Longspur Tragedy. 



" XIV. Lapland Longspurs killed during a storm at Worthington, 

 Minn, (two views). 



" XV. Young Magpies; Pifion Jay's haunts. 



" XVI. Pinon Jay fledgling; nesting site of Say's Phoebe. 



" XVII. The plains north of Maple Creek, Saskatchewan; Cypress 

 Hills, Saskatchewan. 



" XVIII. Nests and nesting site of Western Grebe (two views). 



" XIX. Nest of Canada Goose; young Long-billed Curlew. 



" XX. Nest of Ferruginous Rough-leg; Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse 

 on nest. 



Text-cuts. 



Malformed bill of Rose-breasted Grosbeak .... page 221 



Sketch-map of Dawson County, Montana . . . " 244 



Sketch-map of Custer County, Montana . . . . " 244 



