Contents of Volume XXVI. 



American Birds, 321; New North American Birds, 321; Wid- 

 mann on 'The Summer Birds of Shaw's Garden,' 322; Cole on 

 ' The Crow as a Menace to Poultry Raising, 322 ; Swarth on the 

 Distribution and Moult of Mearns's Quail, 323; Godman's 'Mono- 

 graph of the Petrels,' 323; Howard's 'The British Warblers,' 

 Part III, 323; Grinnell's 'A Bibliography of California Ornithol- 

 ogy,' 326; Mearns on Philippine Birds, 326; Brooks on Birds found 

 in West Virginia, 327; Dearborn on Birds from British East 

 Africa, 327; Dawson and Bowles's 'The Birds of Washington,' 

 328; Shufeldt's 'Osteology of Birds,' 329; Publications Received, 

 330. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Charles K. Worthen, 332. 'British Birds' plan for Marking 

 Birds, 332 ; Temperature Map of Mexico and Central America, 333; 

 New Publications on Birds, 333; 'The Condor' Index, 334; The 

 Victoria Museum of Natural History, 334 ; ' Wild-Life Preserva- 

 tion' number of New York Zoological Society's 'Bulletin,' 335. 



NUMBER IV. 



A Nesting of the Blue-winged Warbler in Massachusetts. 



By Horace W. Wright 337 



An Inquiry into the History of the Current English Names 



of North American Land Birds. By Spencer Trotter . . 346 

 Summer Birds of Iron County, Michigan. By Eliot Blackwelder 363 

 A Study of a Breeding Colony of Yellow-headed Blackbirds; 



Including an Account of the Destruction of the Entire 



Progeny of the Colony by some unknown Natural Agency. 



By Thomas S. Roberts, M. D. (Plates V-XIV.) . . .371 

 Birds of Central Alberta. By Sidney S. S. Stansell . . 390 



The Birds of Colorado — Third Supplement. By Wells W. 



Cooke 400 



The Singular Case of the Black Duck of North America. 



By Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D. . . . . . . 422 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of an American Eider at Chicago, 426 ; Breeding of the Least 

 Bittern (Ardetta exilis) in Chester Co., Pa., 426; The Black Rail 

 in Maryland, 427; First Appearance of the Sanderling in the 

 Vicinity of Detroit, 427; Actodromas fuscicollis in Philadelphia 

 County, Pa., 427; The Spruce Partridge in the White Mountains, 

 428; The Passenger Pigeon — Only One Pair Left, 429; The 

 Black Gyrfalcon in Connecticut, 429; The Acadian Flycatcher in 

 Ontario, 430; European Starling Nesting at Princeton, New 

 Jersey, 430; The Meadowlark in Maine, and Other Notes, 430; 

 Note on the Red Crossbill and the Pine Finch in South Carolina, 

 432; The Grasshopper Sparrow at Ottawa, Ontario, 432; The 

 Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) in Northern Ontario, 432; 

 Breeding of the Mockingbird near Boston, 433; The Carolina 



