Contents of Volume XXIV. 



NUMBER IV. 



A Lapland Longspur Tragedy. By Thomas S. Roberts, M. D 



(Plates XIII and XIV.) 



Observations on some Birds procured near Charleston, S. C 



By Arthur T. Wayne 



On Hybrids between the Mallard (Anas boschas) and certain 



other Ducks. By Henry B. Bigelow .... 

 The Birds of Custer and Dawson Counties, Montana. By E 



S. Cameron. (Plates XV and XVI.) .... 



Summer Birds op Southwestern Saskatchewan. By A. C 



Bent. (Plates XV II-XX.) 



Further Notes from Extreme Southern Illinois. By John F 



Ferry .......... 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



The Kittiwake and Purple Sandpiper again in Maine in Summer, 435; 

 That Cinnamon Teal Record from Florida, 435; The Snowy 

 Heron in Camden County, N. J., 436; American Coot (Fulica 

 arm ricana) nesting near Newark, N. J., 436; The Stilt Sandpiper 

 in Massachusetts. 437; The Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngvtes 

 subruficollis) on Long Island, N. Y., 437; American Goshawk 

 (Aecipiter atricapillus) versus Man and Barred Owl, 437; Un- 

 usual Occurrence of the Short-eared Owl in Pennsylvania, 438; 

 The Breeding of the Short-eared Owl (Asio accipitrinus) near 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan, 439; Mortality among Kingfishers, 439; 

 The American Crossbill in Camden County, Ga., 439; Nesting 

 of Crossbills in Colorado, 440; Occurrence of a White-winged 

 Crossbill at Oxen Hill, Md., in August, 442; The Vesper Sparrow 

 (Pooecetes gramineus) on Long Island, N. Y., 442; A White- 

 throated Sparrow in Washington, D. C, in August, 442; Nesting 

 of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Philadelphia County, Pa., 442; 

 An Intergrade between Helminthophila pinus and //. leucobron- 

 ehialis captured in Hyde Park. Mass., 443; Additional Notes on the 

 Brewster's Warbler in the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., 

 444; Helminthophila leucobronchialis (Brewst.) in Lexington, 

 Mass., 444; A Correction, 446; The Northern Water-Thrush again 

 Nesting in Massachusetts, 446; A Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 

 in Lexington, Mass., in Winter and Summer, 446; The Great Caro- 

 lina Wren in Southern Rhode Island, 446; Large Set of Brown- 

 headed Nuthatch's Eggs, 447; A Recent Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 

 (Polioptila ccerulea) in Delaware Co., Pa., 447; Two Birds New for 

 Ohio (Oceanites oceanicus) and (Merula migratoria achrustera), 447; 

 Pettiver's 'Gazophylacium,' 448; Supplemental Note to 'A 

 Lapland Longspur Tradegy,' 449. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway's 'The Birds of North and Middle America,' Part IV, 450; 

 Townsend and Allen's 'Birds of Labrador,' 451; Townsend's 

 'Along the Labrador Coast,' 453; Clark on New Birds from East- 

 ern Asia and the Aleutian Islands, 453; Blackwelder's Notes on 

 Chinese Zoology, 453; Bangs on Birds from Costa Rica and 

 Chiriqui, 453; Clarke 'On the Birds of the Weddell and adjacent 

 Seas, 454; Goelde's 'Album de Aves Amazonicas,' 455; Mrs. 



