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CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIV. 
NUMBER I. 
Notes on A CapTivE Hermit THrRusH. By Daniel E. Owen 
RECENT INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FoopD OF EUROPEAN Birps. By 
Vie, J Tl, SEAMS, t 
SoME NOTES ON THE NESTING Hasres OF THE Wuite- TAILED 
KiTe. By Chester Barlow 
REPORT OF THE A. O. U. CGonmmrnnnr ON PROTECTION OF Nor rn 
AMERICAN Birps. By Welliam Dutcher : ‘ ‘ 
EVIDENCE SUGGESTIVE OF THE OCCURRENCE OF ‘ INDIVIDUAL 
DICHROMATISM’ IN Be OES asto. By Arthur P. lat 
M.D. (Plate I.) : 
ZAMELODIA AGAINST HABIA. By ay Elliott hues 3 , : : 
PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW Birps FRoM MEXICO AND 
GUATEMALA IN THE COLLECTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. By E. W. Nelson 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF Dendroica. ie Harry C. 
Oberholser . ; : 
ON THE NOMENCLATURE OF CERTAIN FORMS OF THE Downy 
WOODPECKER (Dryobates pubescens). By William Brewster 
FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISLS’ 
Union. By John H. Sage 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Nostrils in Young Cormorants, 87; Labrador Duck, 87; Nesting 
of the Larger White-cheeked Goose (Branta canadensis occiden- 
talvs) in Okanogan County, Washington, 87; A New Bird for 
the Virginias, 88; Asarcta spinosa, 88; The Passenger Pigeon 
(Ectopistes migratorius) i in Lewis County, N. Y., 88; AMJelopelia 
leucoptera in Osceola County, Florida, 88; The California Vul- 
ture in Alberta, 89; Golden Eagle (Aguila chrysaétos) taken near 
New Haven, Conne 89; Abundance of Owls on the Coast of Brit- 
ish Columbia, 89; The Cuculide of the A. O. U. List, 90; Broad- 
tailed Hummingbird in California, 91; Authority for the Name 
Myiarchus mexicanus, 92; Hepburn’s Leucosticte (Leucosticte 
tephrocotis lttoralzs) in Summer in Okanogan County, Wash- 
ington, 92; Ammodramus (Passerculus) sanctorum, 92; Occur- 
rence of Baird’s Sparrow (Ammodramus batrdiz) in Washington, 
93; Acadian Sparrow in Yates County, N. Y., 93; Note on Funco 
annectens Baird and $. ridgwayz Mearns, 94; Rectifications of 
Synonymy of the Genus $unco, 94; Spiza americana near King- 
ston, N. Y., 95; Correct Nomenciature of the Texas Cardinal, gs. 
Natural ‘Breeding Haunts of the Barn Swallow (Chelidon ery- 
