CONTENTS OF VOLUME XV. 



NUMBER I. 



In Memoriam : Charles Emil Bendire. By J. C. Merrill. 



(Frontispiece.) 



The Cayenne Swift, Panyptila cayennensis (Gmelin). Bv Charles 



W. Richmond. (Plate I.) ." . 



William Swainson to John James Audubon. (A hitherto un 



published Letter.) By Dr. Elliott Cones. .... 

 Notes on the Birds of Fort Sherman, Idaho. Bj J. C 



Merrill, Major and Surgeon, U. S. Army. (Concluded.) 

 The Great Roosts on Gabberet Island, opposite North St 



Louis, Mo. By Otto Widmann. 



The Breeding of the Carolina PARoquET in Captivity. By 



Dr. Noxvoiny. .... ...... 



Description of a New Amazilia. By Harry C. Oberholser. 

 Two New Birds from the Pacific Coast of America. By A 



W. Anthotiy. .......... 



Four Sea Birds New to the Fauna of North America. By 



A. W. Anthony. ......... 



Syrnium occidentale caurintim., A New Owl From the Puget 



Sound Region. By C. Hart Merriam. .... 



The Terns of Great Gull Island, N. Y., during 1897. By /. 



Harris Reed. .......... 



Fifteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union 



By John H. Sage. ......... 



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GENERAL NOTES. 



«, Notes on the Egg of the Marbled Murrelet, 49; Gull Dick, 49 ; An Un- 

 common Gull in Massachusetts, 50; Leach's Petrel in Massachusetts, 

 50; The Redhead {^Aythya atnericatia) in post-nuptial plumage in 

 Autumn, 50 ; The Glossy Ibis in Western New York, 50 ; The Amer- 

 ican Egret at Maplewood, N. J., 51 ; Virginia Rail killed bv striking 

 a Telephone Wire, 51; Baird's Sandpiper {Tringa bairdii) on the 

 California Coast, 51 ; The Greater Yellow-legs catching Minnows, 

 51 ; Spotted Sandpiper removing its Young, 52; The 1897 Migration 

 of the Golden Plover ( Charadrius dominiciis) and the Eskimo Curlew 

 Numeniiis borealis) in Massachusetts, 52; The Turkey Vulture in 



