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In MeivToriam : Charles Emil Bendike. 'S^y J. C. Merrill. (Frontispiece.) .... i 



The Cayenne Swift, Panyptila cayemtensis (Gmelin). By Charles W. Richmond. (Plate I.) 7 

 William Swainson to John James Audubon. (A hitherto unpublished Letter.) By Dr. 



Elliott Coites. . J J 



Notes on the Birds of Fort Sherman, Idaho. By/. C. Merrill, Major and Surgeon, 



U. S. Army. (Concluded.) . ,^ 



The Great Roosts on Gabberet Island, opposite North St. Louis, Mo. By Otto 



IVidmanp, 22 



The Breeding of the Carolina Paroquet in Captivity. By Dr. Nowotny. ... 28 



Description OF A Nbw Amazilia. By ffarry C. Oierholser. 32 



Two New Birds from the Pacific Coast of America. By A. IV. Anthony. ... 36 



Four Sea Birds New to the Fauna of North America. By^. IV. Anthony. ... 38 

 Syriiium occidentale cater imcm, a New Owl From the Puget Sound Region. By C. Hart 



Merriam. .39 



The Terns of Great Gull Island, N. Y., during 1897. By J. Harris Reed. ... 40 



Fifteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. By John H. Sage. . . 43 



General Notes. — Notes on the Egg of the Marbled Murrelet, 49; Gull Dick, 49 ; An Uncommon 

 Gull in Massachusetts, 50; Leach's Petrel iu Massachusetts, 50; The Redhead {Aythya americatta) 

 in post-nuptial Plumage in Autumn, 50 ; The Glossy Ibis in Western New York, 50 ; The American 

 Egret at Maplewood, N. J., 51; Virginia Rail killed by striking a Telephone Wire, 51; Baird's 

 Sandpiper (r?-/«^« bairdii) on the California Coast, 51; The Greater Yellow legs catching Min- 

 nows, 51; Spotted Sandpiper removing its Young, 52; The 1S97 Migration of the Golden Plover 

 (Cliaradrius doininiciis) and the Eskimo Curlew {Numenius borealis) in Massachusetts, 52 ; The 

 Turkey Vulture in Connecticut, 53 ; A Black Vulture near Quebec, Canada, 53 ; Black Gyrfalcon 

 {Falco rttsticoliis obsoletits) in Rhode Island. 54; Golden Eagle in New Jersey, 54; A New Name 

 for Dryobates v. montamis, 54 ; Sennett's Night-hawk {Chordeiles virginianus sennetti) at Madison, 

 Minn., 54; The Northern Raven breeding in New England, 55 ; The Starling {Sturnus vulgaris) on 

 Long Island, N. Y., 55; The Song of the Western Meadowlark, 56; The White-crowned Sparrow 

 {Zonotrichia leucophrys) on Long Island, N. Y., 58 ; The Rank of the Sage Sparrow, 58 ; The Blue- 

 winged Warbler {Hehnijithophila pimis) in Eastern Massachusetts, 59; The Chestnut -sided Warbler 

 iu Eastern Kansas, 59; The Aerial Song of the Maryland Yellow-throat, 59; Mockingbird (y)//;«?M 

 polygloitos) at Taunton, Mass., sg ; Late Nesting of the Carolina Wren m Monongalia Co., W. Va., 

 60 ; Hemiura leiccogastra (Gould) — A Correction, 60 ; Bicknell's Thrush on Mt. Ktaadn, Maine, 60 ; 

 Two Species new to the List of Birds found in West Virginia, 61 ; Lake Michigan Notes, 61. 



Recent Literature. — Elliot's Shore Birds, 2d Ed., 63 ; Elliot's Gallinaceous Game Birds of North 

 America, 63 ; Gibson's ' Studio Neighbors,' 65 : ' Bird Neighbors,' 66 ; The New ' Birdcraft,' 66 ; 

 Dixon's ' Migration of Birds,' 67 ; Marsh on the Affinities of Hesperornis, 70 ; Stone on the Genus 

 Sturnella, 70; The Proper Name of the Western Horned Owl, 71 ; ' Nature's Diary,' 71 ; Baskett's 

 'The Story of the Birds,' 71; Chapman's ' Bird-Life,' colored edition, 72; Montgomery's 'List of 

 the Birds of West Chester, Chester Co., Pa., 72; Griunell on the Birds of Santa Barbara, San Nico- 

 las, and San Clemente Islands, California, 73 ; Publications Received, 73. 



Correspondence — Habits of the Maryland Yellow-Throat, 75; the Fauna of Muskeget Island — 

 A Protest, 75.. 



Notes and News. — Public Meeting of the New York Audubon Society, 78; Miss M. R. Audubon's 

 ' Audubon and His Journals,' 78 ; Personals, 79; New York Zoological Society, 79 ; A,. O. U . 

 Committee on Bird Protection, 80. 



Report of the A. O. U. Committee on Protection of North American Birds . . Si 



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