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Notes on the Occurrence of the Yellow Rail in Michigan. By Norman A. 



Wood • . 1 



Some Birds of Baker County, Oregon. By Stanley G. Jewelt .... 5 



Nesting of the Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus). By Rudolph M. 



Anderson .............. 10 



Some Habits of the English Sparrow (Passer domesticus) r By Charles W. Town- 

 send, M.D 13 



The Virginia and Sora Rails Nesting in New York City. By J. A. Weber . 19 



Instinctive Stillness in Birds. By William Palmer 23 



A Reprint of the Ornithological Writings of C. S. Rafinesque. By Charles 



W. Richmond ............. 37 



Winter Birds of New Ontario, and other Notes on Northern Birds. By G. 



Eifrig .55 



Some Notes on the Birds of Okanagan, British Columbia. By Allan Brooks 60 

 The Destruction of Birds at Niagara Falls. By Leon J. Cole .... 63 

 List of Birds observed on the Upper Toklat River near Mt. McKinlet, Alaska. 



By Charles Sheldon 66 



Twenty-sixth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By 



John H. Sage 71 



General Notes.— A Curious Influx of Southern Herons to New Jersey, 76; The Little* 

 White Egret in New Mexico, 76; The Clapper Rail in Essex County, Mass., 76; Late 

 Flight of Woodcock on Long Island, N. Y., 77; Capture of the Ruff at Seabrook, N. H., 

 77; Eskimo Curlew taken at Newburyport, Mass., 77; The American Golden Plover 

 (Charadrius dominions) in Ohio in Autumn, 77; Wild Turkeys in Illinois, 78; Asio 

 wilsonianus in Sherburne, N. H., 78; A Note on the English Sparrow, 78; Mexican 

 Goldfinch in Colorado, 79; Northward Range of Ammodramus lecontei, 80; Correction, 

 80; Breeding of Dendroica striata at Great Slave Lake, 80; The Black-throated Green 

 Warbler as a Nesting Species on Long Island, N. Y., 80; Carolina Wren in Rhode 

 Island, 81; The Carolina Wren at Falmouth, Maine, 82; Capture of the Short-billed 

 Marsh Wren on Long Island, 82; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Washington County, N. 

 Y., 82; The Bluebird (Sialia sialis) in Quebec, 83; Two Michigan Records, 83; Rare 

 Birds near Springfield, Mass., 83; Notes from West Virginia, 84; Colorado Notes, 85; 

 Notes of Occurrence and Nesting of Certain Species Additional to the 'Birds of Colo- 

 rado,' 86. 



Recent Literature. — Chapman's 'Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist,' 89; Preble on 

 the Birds of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region. 90; MacFarlane on the Birds of North- 

 western Canada, 92; Knight's 'The Birds of Maine,' 93; Godman's 'Monograph of the 

 Petrels,' Part III, 95; Gadow's 'Through Southern Mexico,' 95; Report on the Immi- 

 gration of Summer Residents in England and Wales in the Spring of 1907, 96; The 

 Heath Hen, 96; Woodruff on Causes of the Scarcity of the Ruffed Grouse, 97; For- 

 bush on the Economic Value of Birds to Agriculture, 97; Carriker's 'Notes on Costa 

 Rican FormicariidaV 98; Craig on the Voice in Pigeons as a Means of Social Control, 

 98; Taverner and Swales on the Birds of Point Pelee, Ontario, 98; Rockwell on the 

 Birds of Mesa County, Colorado, 99; Bryan on the Birds of Molokai, 99; Annual Report 

 of the National Association of Audubon Societies for 1908, 100; Renprt of the Chief 

 of the Bureau of Biological Survey, 101; Mrs. Bailey's Hand-book of Birds of Western 

 United States, Third Edition, 102; Richmond's Lists of Generic Names of Birds, 102; 

 Publications received, 104. v 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Robert Morris Gibbs, 105. Fourth Annual Report of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 106; U. S. Supreme Court Decision on the 

 Sale of Imported Game, 106; Personal Notes, 107; 'Bird-Lore' colored plates of North 

 American Birds, 108. 



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