CONTENTS. 



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



(Plates V-XII.) 241 



The Crossbills of Northeastern Wyoming. By Rev. P. B. Peabody .... 271 



Characteristic Kamchatkan Birds. By Austin H. Clark 278 



Winter Bird Notes from Extreme Southern Illinois. By John F. Ferry . . LJ1 



On a Collection of Birds from Western Costa Rica. By Outram Bangs . . ' 

 Another Hybrid Hummingbird — Selasphorus rufus + Atthis calliope — 



from California. By John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs 312 



List of the Birds of Louisiana. Part- III. By Geo. E. Beyer, Andrew Allison, 



and Henry H Kopman .... ... 314 



Autumn Warbler Migration. By J. Claire Wood 322 



A New Agelaius from Canada. By Harry C. Oberholser 332 



General Notes. — The Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) on the Coast of Maine in Summer, 

 337- The Brown Pelican in Indiana, 337; The Whistling Swan in Northeastern 

 Illinois, 337; The Glossy Ibis in Central New York, 338; Another Specimen of 

 Cory's Bittern, 338; The Little Blue Heron in Philadelphia County, Pa., in 

 Spring, 338; A Woodcock Nesting in St. Louis, Missouri, 339; The Stilt Sand- 

 piper in Massachusetts, 339; The White-rumped Sandpiper in Michigan, 339; 

 Probable Breeding of the Wandering Tatler in the Interior of Alaska, 340; A 

 Correction: Concerning the Occurrence of Numenius borealis on Long Island, 

 341; The English Sparrow in Texas, 341; Lincoln's Sparrow (Melospiza lin- 

 colni) at Portland, Maine, 341; The Prothonotary Warbler in Colorado, 342; 

 ' Helminthophila laurencei' near the District of Columbia, 342; Capture of Law- 

 rence's Warbler near Boston, 343; The Breeding of Brewster's Warbler near 

 Boston, 343; Ten Birds New to the Avifauna of Kansas, 344: A Kentucky Warbler 

 near Boston, Mass., 344; Manv Eves are Better than One Pair, 346; Some Inter- 

 esting Records from Southern Missouri, 348; Audubon's Ornithological Biog- 

 raphy, 349. 



Recent Literature. — Salvin and Godman's 'Biologia Centrali-Americana. — 

 Aves,' 350; Proceedings of the Fourth International Ornithological Congress, 

 352; Newton's 'Ootheca Wolleyana,' 354; Mershon's "The Passenger Pigeon,' 

 355; Fleming on the Disappearance of the Passenger Pigeon, 357; Report on the 

 Immigration of Birds in England and Wales in the Spring of 1906, 357; Forbes's 

 'An Ornithological Cross-section of Illinois in Autumn,' 358; Bangs on the Wood 

 Rails, 359; Berlepsch on New Neotropical Birds, 359; Berlepsch on the Tyranni- 

 dse, 360; Berlepsch on the Genus Elcenia, 360; Berlepsch and Stolzmann on Birds 

 from Peru, 361; Jourdain's 'The Eggs of European Birds,' 361; Hartert's 'Die 

 Vogel der Palaarctischen Fauna,' Heft IV, 362; Beebe on the 'Owls of the Nearc- 

 tic Region,' 362; Woodruff's 'The Birds of the Chicago Area,' 363; Fleming on 

 Migrations of Brunnich's Murre, 364; Lass's 'Bird Life of a City Garden,' 364; 

 Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Tubinares, 366. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Alfred Newton, 365; Thomas Henry Douglass, 366. 

 A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature, 367; New York Zoological Park, 367: Bird 

 Groups in the American Museum of Natural History, 368; E. T. Seton's Expedi- 

 tion to Arctic America, 368. 



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