■CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXVI. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Notes on the Occurrence of the Yellow Rail in Michigan. 



By Norman A. Wood ........ 1 



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



Nesting of the Bohemian Waxwing {Bombycilla garrulus). By 



Rudolph M. Anderson ........ 10 



Some Habits of the English Sparrow (Passer domesticus). By 



'Charles W. Townsend, 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. 



McKinley, Alaska. By Charles Sheldon .... 66 

 Twenty-sixth Stated Meeting of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' 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 (Charadriits dominieus) in Ohio in Autumn, 77; Wild 

 Turkeys in Illinois, 78; Asio icilsonianus in Sherburne, N. H., 78; 

 A Note on the English Sparrow, 78; Mexican Goldfinch in Colo- 

 rado, 79; Northward Range of Ammodramus lecontei, 80; Correc- 

 tion, 80; Breeding of Dendroica striata at Great Slave Lake, 80; 

 The Black-throated Green W T arbler 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 Colorado,' 86. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Chapman's 'Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist,' 89: Preble on 

 the Birds of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region, 90; MacFarlane 



