CONTENTS 
Courting Antics of Man-o’-war Birds W. K. Fisher Frontispiece 
The Home Life of a Buccaneer (frontispiece and one halftone) Walter K. Fisher 57 
The Farallone Islands Revisited, 1887-1903 (8 halftones and i map) W. Otto Emerson 61 
Twelve Rock Wren Nests in New Mexico (2 halftones) Florence Merriam Bailey 68 
Some Winter Birds of the High Sierras (3 halftones) William W. Price 70 
Explanatory Lyman Belding 74 
Nevada Notes . . . ; Wilson C. Hanna 76 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY. 
Wilson Snipe, Gallinago delicata (Ord.), in the Hawaiian Islands . . Wm. Alanson Bryan 78 
The Albatross Dance at Sea W. K. Fisher 78 
Icterus bullocki as a Honey Eater W. 0 . Emerson 78 
The Western Evening Grosbeak at Pescadero, Cal W. H. Jackson 78 
A Labor Saving Egg Blower W. E, Saunders 78 
A Sage Sparrow in Boulder Co., Colo F. M. Dille 79 
The Coues Flycatcher as a Guardian of the Peace 0 . W. Howard 79 
Road-runners Eat Young Mockingbirds W. /\. Fisher 80 
THE EDITOR’S BOOK SHELF: Swarth’s Birds of the Huachuca Mpuntains, Arizona, 
K. Fisher, 80; Wheelock’s Birds of California,/. Grinnell, 81; Nelson’s Revision of 
M3darchus, 81, and Descriptions of New Mexican Birds, 82; Chapman’s A Neu' 
Grouse from California, 82; Sillowaj^’s Additional Notes to Summer Birds of Flat- 
head Lake 82; Weed’s Bird Life Stories 82; McGregor’s Phillipine Birds 82, Period- 
icals, 82, 83 W. K. Fisher 
NOTES AND NEWS 83, 84 
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