CONTENTS. 



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The Position of Bird's Feet in Flight. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. . . ■ 109 



Ornithological Miscellany from Audubon Wardens. By B. S. Bowdish . . 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 Vischer 144 



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



The Habi'iat Groups of North American Birds in the American 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 (Pelecanus 

 erythrorhynchos) in Massachusetts, 185; The European Widgeon in Rhode Island, 186 

 Snow Geese in Massachusetts, 188; Another Ohio Record for Oidemia deglandi, 189 

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

 The Yellow Rail at Salem, New Jersey, 190; The Black Rail {Creciscus jamaicensis) 

 in the District of Columbia 190; Occurrence of the Whimbrel {.Numenius phceopus) 

 off the Coast of Nova Scotia, 190; Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), 191; Capture of 

 a Bald Eagle near Chicago, 111., 191 ; The Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) in Western 

 Minnesota, 191; Agelaius phceniceus fortis in Louisiana, 192; Pine Siskin and Winter 

 Bobolinks, 192; Evening Grosbeaks again in Massachusetts, 194; The Cardinal at 

 Ipswich, Mass., 194; Dendroica discolor and Dendroea vigorsi in Eastern Massachusetts 

 in Winter, 195; The Carolina Wren at New Haven, Conn., 195; Breeding of the Louisi- 

 ana Water- Thrush in Philadelphia, 195; A Spring Record for Bicknell's Thrush on 

 Long Island, 196; Albino Robins, 196; Unusual Dates for some Birds at New Haven, 

 Conn., 198; Unusual Records for Massachusetts, 198; Massachusetts Bird Notes, 199; 

 Three New Records for the State of Washington and One for Oregon, 200; Labrador 

 Notes, 201. 



Recent Literature. — Grinnell's 'The Biota of the San Bernardino Mountains, 202; 

 Grinnell on Birds of Southeastern Alaska, 203; Grinnell on Birds observed at Salton 

 Sea, 204; Chapman on the Life-Histories of the Booby and Man-o'-War Bird, 205; 

 Warren on "Birds of Montrose County, Colorado, -206; Sclater on the Winter Birds of 

 Colorado, 206; Wetmore's Notes on Some Northern Arizona Birds, 206; Oberholser's 

 List of Alabama Birds, 206; Oberholser's Revision of the Kingfishers of the Genus Ram- 

 phalcyon, 206; Van Oort's Avifauna of the Netherlands, 207; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der 

 Palaarctischen Fauna,' Heft V, 207; Count von Berlepsch on the Birds of Cayenne, 207; 

 'Cassinia,' 208; Stone's 'A Revision of the Genus P'mya Lesson, 209; Watson's 'The 

 Behavior of Noddy and Sooty Terns,' 209; Publications Received, 214. 



Correspondence. — Where the Skeletons of American Birds may be Studied, 217. 



Notes and News. — -Obituary: Charles Aldrich, 218; Edward Seymour Woodruff, 218. 

 Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Audubon Society of the State of New York, 219; 

 Darwin Memorial Celebration, 219; Roosevelt Expedition to Africa, 220; Temperature 

 Map of Mexico and Central America, 220; New Publications, 220. 



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