viii Contents of Volume XXVI. 



Wren in Washtenau County, Michigan, 434; Brown Creepers 

 Nesting near St. Louis, 434; A Colony of Hermit Thrushes at 

 Yaphank, Long Island, N. Y., 435; North Carolina Notes, 436; 

 Notes from Crawford Notch, N. H., 437; Additions to the List 

 of Birds of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Western Maryland, 

 437; The Food of Several Maine Water-Birds, 438; Hybridism 

 and Generic Characters in the Trochilidse, 440. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Cory's 'The Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin,' 442; Wrights' 'Birds of 

 the Boston Public Garden,' 443; Hersey and Rockwell on the 

 Birds of the Barr Lake District, Colorado, 445; McGregor on 

 Birds from Northern Mindanao, 445; McGregor on Philippine 

 Ornithological Literature, 445; Marble on Birds of New Hamp- 

 shire, 446; Reed's 'Bird Guide,' 446; Cherrie on New Birds from 

 the Orinoco Region and Trinidad, 446; Miller's Experiment in 

 the Colonization of the House Martin, 446; Walcott's Analysis of 

 the Bird Fauna of Nebraska. 447; Publications Received, 448. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



New Edition of Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, 450; Avian Osteol- 

 ogy and Game Bird Protection, 450. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: William H. Brownson, 453. New Ornithological Works 

 in Prospect, 453; Personal Notes, 454; The New Quarters of the 

 Division of Birds in the National Museum, 454; The Bristol 

 County Academy of Sciences, 455; Bird Protection Notes, 455; 

 Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologist's Union, 456. 

 Index ............ 457 



Errata 483 



Content* ........... iii 



Officers and Members . . . . . . . . . ix 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Plates. 



Plate I. Duck Hawk on the Palisades. (From Group in American 

 Museum of Natural History.) 

 II. The American Egret in a South Carolina Cypress Swamp. 

 (From group in American Museum of Natural History.) 

 " III. A Klamath Lake Bird Colony. (From group in American 



Museum of Natural History.) 

 " IV. Grebe Colony. (From group in American Museum of Natural 



History. 

 " V-XIV. Studies of a Breeding Colony of Yellow-headed Black- 



birds 



Text-Cuts. 



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 Map of Weld and Morgan Counties, Colorado .... 274 

 Diagrammatic sketch of same area to show altitudes . . . 275 

 Sketch map of the Barr Lake Chain, Adams County, Colorado (fac- 

 ing) 276 



