CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIV. 



NUMBER I. 



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



Clinton G. Abbot. {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, Helminthophila 

 bachmani (Aud.), taken near Charleston, South Caro- 

 lina. 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Unpublished Letters of John James Audubon and Spencer F. 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 

 Union. By John H. Sage 



the American Ornithologists' 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of the Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus) 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 Shoi't-eared Owl and Savanna 

 Sparrow Breeding in Wayne County, Michigan, 97; The Breeding 

 Habits of Empidonax virescens in Connecticut, 99; Empidonax 

 griseus Brewster vs. Empidonax canescens Salvin and Godman, 99; 

 The Raven near Portland, Maine, 100; Two Ravens (Corvus corax 

 principalis) seen at Harpswell, Maine, 100; The Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) in Georgia, 100; A 

 new Colorado Record for the White- winged Crossbill (Loxia leucop- 

 tera), 101; An Early Date for the Arrival of the Ipswich Sparrow 

 (Passerculus princeps) on the coast of South Carolina, 101; Mac- 

 gillivray's Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus macgillivrayi 

 with Fourteen Rectrices, 102; The Junco Breeding at Wellfleet, 

 Mass., 102; A New White-throat Song, 102; Scarlet Tanager 

 (Piranga erythromelas) at Ottawa, Canada, 103; The Nesting of 

 Stelgidopteryx serripennis in Norwi-ch, Vt., 103; A New Hampshire 

 Record for Stelgidopteryx serripennis, 104; The Philadelphia 

 Vireo (Vireo philadelphicus) in Georgia, 104; Connecticut Warbler 

 in Maine, 105; Cinclus mexicanus not a Costa Rican Bird, 105; 

 A Carolina Wren in Middlesex Fells, Massachusetts, 105; Some 



