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on the Birds of Northwestern 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 

 Immigration 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 ; Forbush on the Economic 

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

 Rican Formicariida?,' 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; Report 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. 



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. 



NUMBER II. 



The Position of Birds' Feet in Flight. By Charles W. Town- 



send, M. D 109 



Ornithological Miscellany from Audubon Wardens. By 



B. S. Bow'dish .116 



Notes on the Summer Birds of Northern Georgia. By Arthur 



H. Howell 129 



The Tagging of Wild Birds as a Means of Studying their 



Movements. By Leon J. Cole 137 



A List of the Birds of Western South Dakota. By Stephen 



Sargent Yischer . . . . . . . . .144 



Barrow's Golden-eye in Massachusetts. By William Brewster 153 



The Habitat Groups of North American Birds in the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. By J. A. Allen. (Plates 

 I-IV.) 165 



Something More about Black Ducks. By William Brewster . 175 



New Records and Important Range Extensions of Colorado 



Birds. By Merrit Cary 180 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A Recent Instance of the Occurrence of the White Pelican (Pele- 

 canus erythrorhynchos) in Massachusetts, 185; The European 

 Widgeon in Rhode Island, 186; Snow Geese in Massachusetts, 

 18S; Another Ohio Record for Oidemia deglandi, 189; The Masked 

 Duck — a Correction, 189; The Little Blue Heron in New Jersey, 



