CONTENTS. 



iSlfstiiiK Habits of Krifler's Hawk, R. M. Auderson - - - -il 



The Affinities of the Mniotiltidse, Mortou E. Peck - - - 84 



The Pied-Ull Grebe, Carl Fritz Heuniug ... - 40 



Ett'ect of the Season on Migration, H. J. Giddiugs - - - 41 



The Prairie Hen, Wihuon Newell . . . . . 43 



Manchester, 1897 .-..--. 44 



Book Review ........ 45 



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