CONTENTS 
A Partial List of the Birds of Keam Canyon, Arizona (frontispiece) A. K, Fisher 
Feathers Beside the Styx Edgar A. Mearns 
Some Unusual Nests of the Bullock Oriole (3 halftones) C. S. Sharp 
The Phainopepla M, French Gilman 
The Significance of Trinomials Witmer Stone 
The Author of “Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California” (halftone) 
List of Water Birds of Lake Valley, Central Sierra Nevada Mts., Cal. (halftone) Milton S. Ray 
The Summer Birds of Washoe Lake, Nevada F. S, Hanford 
Status of the Bicolored Blackbird in Southern California F. S. Daggett 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
On Certain ‘Modern’ Tendencies Wilfred H. Osgood 
A Protest Wm. Dutcher 
An Answer P. M. Silloway. 
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EDITORIALS 
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Notice to Members of Southern Division 57 
An Open Letter Fred M. Dille 57 
Obituary: Thomas E. Slevin, George Shoenberger Chambliss, Thomas Mcllwraith 57 
Minute of Club Meetings 58 
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