vi Contettts of Volume XV. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Fauna of Muskeget Island — A Reply, 210; The Short-eared Owls 

 of Muskeget Island, 211 ; An Untrustworthy Observer, 213. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary. — Dr. Andreas Johan Malmgren, 214; Dr. F. G. Herman August 

 Mojsisovics, 215; New Pnblications, 215; Ornithological Societies, 

 216. 



NUMBER III. 



The Imperial Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campefhilus imferialis 



(Gould). By £^. W. Nelson. Plate III 217 



Descriptions of Supposed New Genera, Species, and Sub- 

 species OF American Birds. I. Fringillid.^. By Robert 

 Rtdgivay. ............ 223 



■ Notes on the Nesting of the Fork-tailed Petrel ( Oceano- 



droma furcata). "Qy Joseph Mailliard. ..... 230 



Land Birds Observed in Midwinter on Santa Catalina 



Island, California. "Qy Joseph Grinnell. ..... 233 



Geographical Races of Harporhynchus redivivus. By Joseph 



Gritinell. ............ 236 



The San Nicolas Rock Wren, ^y Joseph Gritinell. . . . 237 



A Month with the Goldfinches. By Mary Emily Bruce. . . 239 

 Our Small Eastern Shrikes. By JVi'lltam Palmer. . . . 244 



Descriptions of Two New Birds from the Santa Barbara 



Islands, Southern California. By Edgar A. Mearns. . 258 



Young Plumages of Mexican Birds. By Richard C. McGregor. 264 

 Description of a New Ammodramus from Lower California. 



By Richard C. McGregor. ........ 265 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Pacific Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla pollicaris) in Lower California, 

 267 ; Capture of the Short-tailed Albatross on the coast of Southern 

 California, 267 ; Wilson's Phalarope (^Stegajiopus tricolor) at Ocean 

 City, N. J., 268; Unusual Nesting Site of Kingbird, 268; Early 

 Arrival of the Kingbird at Cambridge, Mass., 268; Habits of the Blue 

 ]s.y,26(); Probable Polygamy of the Great-tailed Grackle {J^uiscalus 

 macroitrus), 269; McKay's Snowflake {Plectrophe/iax hyperboreus) at 

 Bethel, Alaska, 269; Notes on the Black Seaside Finch {^Ammo- 

 dramus }iigrescens), 2']o; Nesting Instincts of Swallows, 271; Nates 

 on Generic Names of Certain Swallows, 271 ; Accidental death of a_ 



