ii THE NIDIOLOGIST 



CONTENTS. 



Some Fort Wingate Reminiscences — New Mexico (two page plates) Dr. R. W. Sliufeldt 102 



The Hammerkop — Scc/iis iiinlDetta — (page plate and illustration) Dr. Emil Holub loO 



No Further Comment Necessary 108 



The Least Bittern B. Hall Swales 108 



Nesting of the Water (Juzel 1). A. Cohen 109 



Feeding Habits of Flickers J. N. Baskett no 



An Albino Butco borealis (page platcj Professor Ludwig Kumlien 1 1 1 



Blue Jays Wanted in 



NOTES FROM THE FIELD. 



The Murre ( Uria troile) at Oswego Harbor, N. Y D. D. Stone 1 1 1 



Kansas Bird Notes A. J. McKay in 



Nest Building at Night J. D. Figgins in 



Bohemian Waxwings at Toronto G. F. Dippie 112 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS. 



The Birds About Us, C. C. Abbott 112 



In Bird Land, Leander S. Keyser 112 



The Friendship of Nature, Mabel Osgood Wright 112 



A Florida Sketch Book, Bradford Torrey 112 



Nuttall's Ornithology, Montague Chamberlain 113 



Auks and their Allies, Dr. R. W. Shufeldi 113 



The Museum, J. H. Bowles on the Whip-poor-will 113 



The Oologist, Ernest W. Vickers on a Singular Nest of the Phoebe 113 



Editorial 114 



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