INDEX 



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Lattin, Frank H 3 



Liar, A Phenomenal 142 



Man-o'-War Bird, On the 39 



Merganser, The Red-breasted 30 



Michigan, Scientists of 98 



Michigan, The Crows, Jays, and " Pies "of 136 



Michigan Notes 139 



Migration 152 



Mockingbird, The 80 



Murre at Oswego Harbor iii 



My Buceros, " Hermann " 82 



My First " Take " for 1895 126 



Nest, A Beautiful Baltimore Oriole's 93 



Nest, A Curious Hummingbird's 153 



Nest-building at Night in 



Nesting, Diversity in 72 



Nesting Sites, Peculiar 124 



Notes, Cuckoo and Flycatcher 8 



Notes from the Field in, 126, 138, 169 



Oological Chat 145 



Oologist, Young 3 



Oologists' Association 30 



Oriole Lost at Sea 150 



Osprey, Nesting on Santa Margarita Island of the 18 



Ostrich Farm, Notes from an 90 



Owl, Florida Screech, Nesting of the 168 



Owl, Notes on the Barn 81 



Owl, Notes on the Screech 33 



Owl, The Spotted 11 



Owls of ye Sucker State (rhymes) 128 



Palmer's Thrasher, A Nest of 2 



Perchers Swim Also 41 



Petrel, The Stormy (poem) 60 



Pheasant, The Ring qr 



Plover, Wilson's. 128 



Prairie Hens, Exporting 126 



Publications, Recent 



21, 32, 57. 71- 112, 127, 143, 159, 171 



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Quiniault Lake, Birds Observed at 26, 41, 53 



Rail, Nesting of the King 141 



Random Notes on Birds of Alameda Co., Cal. 156, 168 



Raptores, A Day with the 4 



Sandpiper, Habits of the Solitary 40 



Sapsucker 98 



Sparrow, Black-chinned 10 



Sparrow, Further Notes on Leconte's 95 



Sparrow, The Chipping 153 



Sparrows, Sharp-tailed and Seaside 27 



Storks 46 



Surf Bird, The 94 



Swallow, Late Nesting of the Cliff 30 



Sweetwater Lake, Drowned in 144 



Swift, Eggs of the White-throated 7 



Taxidermal Notes 93 



The Swifts of " Swallow Tree " 66 



Three Families — One Hole 170 



Towhees, Albino 55 



Turnstone, The Black 64 



Two " Runts " 119 



Vireo, Hutton's 124 



Vireo, The Yellow-throated 80 



Vireos of California, Report on the 97 



Warbler, Nest and Eggs of the Yellow Palm .... 140 



Warbler, Nesting of the Blue-winged 54 



Warbler, Nesting of Wilson's Black-capped 13 



Warbler, Notes on the Parula 62 



Warbler, The Magnolia 164 



Warbler, The Prothonotary 69 



Warbler, The Yellow Palm 140 



Water Ouzel, Nesting of the. 109 



We, Also, Take Exceptions 29 



Wheatear in Michigan 42 



" William Henry" Recants. 44 



Wilson's Snipe, A Half Hour with 86 



Woodpecker, Nesting of the Red-headed 67 



Wren, The Rock " 52 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Nest of Palmer's Thrasher in Cholla i 



Frank H. Lattin (portrait) 3 



Great Horned Owl 5 



Young Western Gulls 7 



Osprey's Nest in Giant Cactus 17 



The Camp on the Beach — Santa Margarita Island 19 



Nest and Eggs of the Gadwall 20 



Louisiana Water Thrushes and Nest. 22 



Method of Mounting Diurnal Raptores in the 



British Museum 23 



White-tailed Kite 31 



Eggs of the White-tailed Kite (colored plate). ... 32 



Mounting Hawks (from Davie's Taxider77iy) 34 



Models for Mounting Birds 35 



White Stork in Flight (from life) 45 



Group of White Storks (from life) 46 



A Stork Family (from life) 47 



Home of the Blossom-Eater 48 



Young Cowbird in Warbler's Nest (from life). ... 50 



Nest and Eggs of the Rock Wren 52 



Sugar Loaf Rock — Farallon Islands 59 



Great Murre Rookery — Farallons 61 



A Group of Sea Lions 63 



Nests of the Parula Warbler 65 



California Condor Chick 73 



California Condor 75 



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Home of the Condor 77 



Great Horned Owl (from life) 79 



Nest of Baltimore Oriole 87 



An Ostrich " Round Up " 91 



Dr. and Mrs. Holub (portraits) 92, 93 



An Albino Buteo borealis lOi 



A Corner in My " Den " at Wingate 103 



Navajo Church, Near Wingate, N. Mex. ; Pack 



Train in Foreground 105 



Nest of Scopus umbretia 107 



Head of Scopus utnbretta (natural size) 108 



Harlequin Ducks 113 



Nest and Eggs of the Glossy Ibis 115 



Apparatus (three illustrations) 117, 118 



Runt Hawk's Eggs 119 



A Camper's Outfit 121 



The Western Collector (photo, of H. C. Ward). . 122 



A Device for Blowing Eggs 125 



Using a Climbing Rope.. 132 



Bills of Birds (fifty-seven figures) 133, 134, 135 



Nile Geese and Nest 147 



Eggs of Golden Eagle and Desert Sparrow Hawk 151 



A Curious Nest of Anna's Hummingbird 153 



Gambel's Partridge (male) 161 



Nest of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 165 



A Young Raven 167 



