viii Contents of Volume XIV. 
NOTES ON THE AMERICAN BARN OWL IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 
By J. Harris Reed 6 
Tue TERNS OF MuSKEGET IsLAND, MassacHuserts, Parr IIL. By 
George H. Mackay 
CRITICAL NOTES ON THE GeNUS AuRIP ARUS. By Harry C. Ober- 
holser . ; 6 ‘ ; 
Directive CoLoRATION OF Birps. By Ernest Seton Thompson. 
(Plate IV.) 5 9 : ; 
NEw Race oF S#enus tristis FROM THE Pactric Coast. By Joseph 
Grinnell 0 ; : 
| Tue SItKAN KINGLET. By William Palmer 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Early notice of Gavia adamst, 402; The Least Tern Breeding on 
Martha’s Vineyard Island, Massachusetts, 402; The Terns of 
Penikese —a correction, 402; Capture of the Little Blue Heron 
in Connecticut, 402; @gvaltt?s ntvesa in Florida, 402; Buteo 
albicaudatus in Arizona, 403; Additional Records of the Flam- 
mulated Owl (Megascops flammeola) in Colorado, 403; Nesting 
of the Short-eared Owi in Southern California, 404; Partnership 
Nesting of Valley Partridge and Long-tailed Chat, 404; Nesting 
Habits of Empidonax tnsulicola, 405; The White- throated Spar- 
row Breeding at Hubbardston, Mass., 406; Henslow’s Sparrow in 
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Michigan —a Correction, 406; Nesting of Cardinalis cardinalis © 
at Nyack, N. Y., 406; Notes on the Moult and Certain Plumage 
Phases of Piranga rubra, 406; Purple Martins (Progne subs) 
Breeding in Electric Arc-light Caps, 407; The Tree Swallow 
Breeding in Virginia, 408; Rough-winged Swallows (Stelg¢dofp- 
teryx serripennts) in Greene and Ulster Counties, N. Y., 408; 
Peculiar Nesting of the Maryland Yellow-throat, 408; The 
Names of two Mexican Wrens, 409; Rare Birds in the Vicinity 
of Philadelphia, 410; Notes on Some Ontario Birds, 410; Rare 
Birds taken in Toronto and Vicinity, 411; Disgorgement among 
Song-birds, 412; Disgorgement of Cherry Stones again Noted, 
412; Birds’ Tongues in Pictures, 413. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
‘ Citizen Bird,’ 413; Birds of Maine, 414; Winge on Birds at the 
Danish Lighthouses, 415; Cory’s Shore Birds of North America, 
418; Chapman’s ‘Handbook,’ 4th Edition, 419; Hartert on the 
SOSA NCIS Caprimulgide and Macropterygide, 419; Mearns 
on the ‘Ornithological Vocabulary of the Moki Indians,’ 420; 
Papers on Economic Ornithology, 420; Whitlock’s Review of 
Herr Gitke’s Views on the Migration of Birds, 422; Suchetet 
on Hybrids among Wild Birds, 424; Publications Received, 425. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Treatment of ‘ Nomina Nuda,’ 427. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Meeting of the Fifteenth Congress of the A. O. U., 430; Obituary, 
Sir Edward Newton, 431; Memorial to Henry D. Minot, 431; 
Audubon Monument Association of New Orleans, 432; The Col- 
lection of Birds Eggs in the British Museum, 432. 
