CONTENTS. 



P AGE 



A Lapland Longspur Tragedy. By Thomas S. Roberts, M. D. (Plates XIII and 



XIV.) 369 



Observations on some Birds procured near Charleston, S. C. By Arthur T. 



Wayne 377 



On Hybrids between the Mallard (Anas boschas) and certain other Ducks. 



By Henry B. Bigelow 382 



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



(Plates XV and XVI) 389 



Summer Birds of Southwestern Saskatchewan. By A. C. Bent. (Plates XVII- 



XX.) 407 



Further Notes from Extreme Southern Illinois. By John P. Ferry . . 430 



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 americana) Nesting near Newark, N. J., 

 436; The Stilt Sandpiper in Massachusetts, 437; The Buff-breasted Sandpiper (.Tryn- 

 gites BUbruficollis) on Long Island, N. Y.. 437; American Goshawk (Accipitcr atricapil- 

 tU8) versus Man and Barfed Owl, 437; Unusual Occurrence of the Short-eared Owl in 

 Pennsylvania, 43S; The Breeding of the Short-eared Owl (Asia 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 (Poce- 

 cetes gramineus) on Long Island, N. V., 442; A White-throated Sparrow in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, in August. 442; Nesting of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Philadelphia 

 County. Pa., 442; An Intergrade between Helminthophila pinus and H. leucobronchialis 

 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 Nest- 

 ing in Massachusetts, 446; A Mockingbird (Mimus polyglotlos) in Lexington, Mass., 

 in Winter anil Summer, 446; The Great Carolina Wren iii 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 

 oceanieus and Morula tnigratoria achrustera), 447; Pettiver's ' Gazophylacium,' 448; 

 Supplemental Note to 'A Lapland Longspur Tragedy,' 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 Labra- 

 dor Coast,' 452: Clark on New Birds from Eastern 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; Goeldi's 

 'Album de Axes Amazonicas,' 455; Mrs. Davenport's 'Birds of Windham and Benning- 

 ton Counties, Vermont,' 456; Herman's The Protection of Birds in Hungary, 456; 

 Williams's 'Game Commissions and Wardens. 457; Anderson's 'The Birds of Iowa,' 458; 

 Rich's 'Feathered Game of the Northeast,' 459. 



Correspondence. — Protective Coloration, 460. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Dr. William La Grange Ralph, 461. The Seventh Inter- 

 national Zoological Congress, 462; Twenty-fifth Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, 466. 



Index 467 



Errata 492 



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