Nov., 1915 
241 
INDEX TO VOLUME XVII 
A 
Acanthis linaria linaria, 127 
Accipiter cooperi, 43, 192 
velox, 43, 124, 149, 192 
Actitis macularius, 123 
Aechmophorus occidentalis, 114, 121 
Aegialitis nivosa, 207 
Aeronautes melanoleucus, 9, 150, 194 
Agelaius phoeniceus aciculatus, 12, 228 
phoeniceus californicus, 199 
phoeniceus neutralis, 126, 167 
phoeniceus phoeniceus, 4, 47, 150 
phoeniceus sonoriensis, 88, 233 
Aimophila ruficeps ruficeps, 80, 200 
Aix sponsa, 122, 207 
Allen, A. S., return of winter birds to the 
same locality, 58; birds of a Berke- 
ley hillside, 78; the hermit warbler in 
Berkeley, 235 
Aluco pratincola, 57, 79, 194 
American Ornithologists’ Union, Pacific 
Coast meeting of the, 168; snapshots 
from the San Francisco meeting, 171 
Ammodramus bairdi, 48 
savannarum australis, 48 
savannarum bimaculatus, 60, 99 
Amphispiza belli, 200 
Anas platyrhynchos, 41, 122, 235 
Anderson, B. M., review of his “report on 
birds of Okanagan Valley”, 133; re- 
view of his “birds of the Atlin Dis- 
trict”, 133; nesting of the Bohemian 
waxwing in northern British Colum- 
bia, 145 
Anderson, E. M., with Kermode, F., review 
of their “report on birds of Atlin 
Lake”, 133 
Anthus rubescens, 128, 201 
Antrostomus vociferus vociferus, 45 
Aphelocoma californica californica, 80, 164, 
198 
Aphriza virgata, 207 
Aquila chrysaetos, 43, 93, 193 
Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis, 124 
Archilochus alexandri, 125 
colubris, 45 
Ardea herodias herodias, 74, 123 
Arenaria interpres interpres, 186 
melanocephala, 207 
Asio flammeus, 125, 173 
wilsonianus, 124, 149 
Astragalinus lawrencei, 199 
psaltria hesperophilus, 80, 166, 199 
tristis pallidus, 127 
tristis salicamans, 199 
tristis tristis, 48 
Asyndesmus lewisi, 152, 204 
Auklet, Cassin, 33 
Rhinoceros, 30 
Auriparus flaviceps flaviceps, 90 
Avocet, 98, 123, 207 
B 
Baeolophus bicolor, 56 
inornatus inornatus, 84, 197 
Bailey, F. M., review of the fourth edition 
of her “handbook of birds of the west- 
ern United States”, 105; character- 
istic birds of the Dakota prairies. I, 
in the open grassland, 173; II, along 
the lake borders, 222 
Baldpate, 122, 166, 234 
Bancroft, W. F., with Palmer, T. S., and 
Earnshaw, F. L., review of their re- 
port on game laws for 1914”, 107 
Beck, R. H., communication from, 133 
Bent, A. C., yellow-billed loon: — a correc- 
tion, 130 
Bird, Surf, 207 
Bishop, L. B., description of a new race of 
Savannah sparrow and suggestions 
on some California birds, 185 
Bittern, American, 123 
Blackbird, Brewer, 60, 66, 94, 126, 150, 199, 
229 
Columbian Red-winged, 126 
Red-winged, 47, 150 
Sonora Red-winged, 88 
Yellow-headed, 126, 131, 150, 173, 204 
Blue-bill, 131, 235 
Bluebird, 57 
Mountain, 95, 129, 151, 201 
Western, 129, 192, 196, 206, 234, 235 
Bobolink, 126, 177, 199, 222 
Bobwhite, 42, 123 
Bolander, L. P., early spring notes from 
west-central California, 131 
Bombycilla cedrorum, 51, 128, 201, 204, 205 
garrula, 128, 145 
Bonasa umbellus sabini, 123 
umbellus togata, 123 
Botaurus lentiginosus, 123 
Bowles, J. H., European widgeon in Wash- 
ington, 102 
Brachyramphus craveri, 74 
hypoleucus, 74 
Bradbury, W. C., notes on the nesting of the 
white-tailed ptarmigan in Colorado, 
214 
Branta canadensis canadensis, 42, 122 
Bryant, H. C., another record of the occur- 
rence of the emperor goose in Cali- 
fornia, 58; review of Hornaday’s 
“wild life conservation”, 106; late 
nesting of the Townsend solitaire, 205 
