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THE WESTERN FIELD SPARROW (Sfizella pusilla arenacea CHADBOURNB). By Charles W. 
Richmond. (Plate III.) 5 5 ; : ‘ : : 3 3 ; 345 ai 
NoTEs ON THE Birps oF Fort Seer Tht) By J. C. Merrill, Major and Surgeon, a i: 
U.S. Army. ¢ Babies : cl i 347 br 
Brrps OBSERVED ON A Gontsenine Tee TO ecnee Vereen By Wiliam Henry ‘ 
Phelps. WitH CriticAL Notes aND DESCRIPTIONS oF Two New Species. By Frank 
M. Chapman. 6 5 5 e : A 0 3 : 357 
THE HorNEpD LARKS OF Sens By O. W. Knight. : 5 372 
Notes ON THE AMERICAN BARN OWL IN EASTERN INANE HON. By TA ge Reed. 374 
THE TERNS OF MUSKEGET ISLAND, MASSACHUSETTS. PART III. By George H. Mackay. #1383 
CriticAL NOTES-ON THE GENUS Auriparus. By Harry C. Oberholser. . i 5 “i 0 390 
DIRECTIVE COLORATION OF Birps. By Eraest Seton Thompson. (PlatelV.) . 5 ; eos 
New Race OF SPINUS TRISTIS FROM THE PaciFic Coast. By Joseph Grinnell. 2 2 i 397 
THE SITKAN KINGLET. By William Palmer. 6 f 4 P ‘ 3 i 3 5 ries SeKel9) 
GENERAL NoTES. — Early notice of Guan adamist, 402; The Least Tern Breeding on Martha’s Vine- 
yard Island, Massachusetts, 402; The Terns of Penikese —a Correction, 402; Capture of the Little 
Blue Heron in Connecticut, 402; Megdalitis xivosa in Florida, 402; Bzuteo albicaudatus in Arizona, 
403; Additional Records of the Flammulated Owl (Megascops flammeola) in Colorado, 403; 
Nesting of the Short-eared Owl in Southern California, 404; Partnership Nesting of Valley 
Partridge and Long-tailed Chat, 404; Nesting Habits of Amfidonax insulicolx, 405; The White- 
throated Sparrow Breeding at Hubbardston, Mass., 406; Henslow’s Sparrow in Michigan —a 
Correction, 406; Nesting of Cardinalis cardinalis at Nyack, N. Y., 406; Notes on the Moult 
and certain Plumage Phases of Pzvanga rubra, 406; Purple Martins (Progne subis) Breeding in 
Electric Arc-light Caps, 407; The Tree Swallow Breeding in Virginia, 408; Rough-winged 
Swallows (Stelewdopteryx serrifennis)in Greene and Ulster Counties, N. Y., 408; Peculiar Nesting 
of the Maryland Yellow-throat, 408; The Names of Two Mexican Wrens, 409 5 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 SHOES again 
Noted, 412; Birds’ Tongues in Pictures, 413. 
Recent LITERATURE. —‘ Citizen Bird,’ 413; Birds of Maine, 414 5. Winge on Birds at the Danish Light- 
houses, 415; Cory’s Shore Birds of North America, 418; Chapman’s ‘ Handbook,’ 4th Edition, 419 ; 
Hartert on the Podargide, Caprimulgide and Macropterygidz, 419; Mearns on the ‘ Ornithological 
Vocabulary of the Moki Indians’, 420; Papers on Economic Ornithology, 420; Whitlock’s Review of 
Herr Gatke’s Views on the Migration of Birds, 422; Suchetet on Hybrids among Wild Birds, 424 ; 
Publications Received, 425. 5 
CORRESPONDENCE, — The Treatment of ‘ Nomina Nuda,’ 427. See j 
Notes anp News.— Meeting of the Fifteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists’ Union AZO Geaeias 4 
Obituary, Sir Edward Newton 431; Memorial to Henry Davis Minot, 431; New. Publications, ‘ 
431; British Museum Collection of Birds, Nests, and Eggs, 432. 
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