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With Bob-white in Mexico. By £. W.Nelson. (Plate II.) ' ii5 



Summer Birds of Sitka, Alaska. By Joseph Grinnell. .122 



The Summer Birds of the West Virginia Spruce Belt. By William C. Rives, M.D. . 131 



Nesting Habits of Anthony's Vireo. By C W. ^ud J. //. Bowles 13S 



Petrels of Southern California. By A . W. Anthony 140 



The Economic Value of the White-bellied Nuthatch and Black-capped Chickadee. 



By E. Dwight Sanderson. 144 



Notes on Certain Species of Mexican Birds. By E. W.Nelson 155 



Breeding Habits of the American Robin {Merula migratoria) in Eastern Massachusetts. 



By Reginald Heber Howe, Jr "... 162 



The Terns of Muskeget Island, Massachusetts. By George H. Mackay 168 



Some New Races of Birds from Eastern North America. By Ontrani Bangs. . . 173 



General Notes. — Briiniiich's Murre {Uria lomvia) at Ottawa, Canada, 183; Ross's Gull (Rhodos- 

 tethia rosed) on Bering Island, 183; The Scarlet Ibis — A Correction, 183; Colimis virginiamism 

 Peculiar Plumage, 184; The Passenger Pigeon \Ectopistes migrator ius) in Wisconsin and Nebraska, 

 184; Geotrygon chrysia again at Key West, 185 ; The California Vulture in Santa Barbara Co., Cal , 

 185 ; Occurrence of the Spotted Screech Owl {Megascops aspersus) in Arizona, 186 ; Great Gray Owl 

 (Scoiiapte.v cinerea) m Minnesota, 186; Note on Speotyto atnicidaria obscura Stephens, 187; Ama- 

 zilia cerviniventris chakonota — A Correction, 18S ; Lewis's Woodpecker Storing Acorns, 188; 

 Occurrence of Leconte's Sparrow {A mrnodramus leconiii) at Ithaca, N. Y., 188 ; The Sea-side Sparrow 

 on Cape Cod in Winter, and other Notes, 189; Lincoln's Sparrow in New Brunswick, igo; Rank of 

 the Sage Sparrow, iSq ; Wintering of the Towhee {Pipilo erythrophthabnns) at Rockaway Beach, 

 L. I., igo; The Rose-breasted Grosbeak in California, 190; The Philadelphia Vireo {Vireo phila- 

 delphicus), igi ; Cairns's Warbler (Dendroica cceridescens cairnsi) in Georgia on Migration, ig2 ; 

 Carolina Wren at Lyme, Conn , in Winter, 192: Long-billed Marsh Wreu in New Brunswick, 192 ; 

 Birds Nesting under Electric Arc-light Hoods, 193 ; The Use of Hornets' Nests by Birds, 193 ; 

 Some Corrections, 193; Revival of the Sexual Passion in Birds in Autumn, 194; Remarkable Orni- 

 thological Occurrences in Nova Scotia, 195 ; Occasional Visitants at San Geronimo (Nicasio Town- 

 ships Marin Co., California, 196; California Bird Notes, 197. 



Recent Literature. — Audubon and His Journals, 19S ; Miss Merriam's ' Birds of Village and Field,' 

 206 ; Hair and Feathers, 207 ; Baur on Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 207 ; Bulletin of the 

 B. O. C, 208 ; Publications Received, 20S. 



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

 keget Island, 211 ; An Untrustworthy Observer, 213. 



Notes and News.' — Obituary. — Dr. Andreas Johan Malmgren, 214; Dr. F. G. Herman August 

 Mojsisovics, 215 ; New Publications, 215 ; Ornithological Societies, 216. 



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