OLD SERIES, VOL. LI CONTINUATION OF THE BULLETIN OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB NEW SERIES, VOL. XLIII

The Auk la •uart•rlp •ournal of ©rnitõolo!t_•

EDITOR

WITMER STONE

VOLUME XLIII

PUBLISHED BY

The American Ornithologists' Union

LANCASTER, PA. 1926

Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa.

OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION PAST AND PRESENT

PRESIDENTS.

*J. A. ALLEN, 1883--1890. *D. G. ELLIOT, 1890--1892. *ELLIOtt COVES, 1892-1895. *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1895--1898. ROBERT RIDGWAY, 1898--1900. C. HART MnRRIAM, 1900-1903.

*CHAs. B. CORY, 1903-1905.

CHAS. F. BATCHELDER, 1905--1908. E. W. NELSON, 1908--1911. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1911--1914. A. K. FISHER, 1914--1917.

*JOHN H. SAGE, 1917--1920. WITMER STONE, 1920--1923. JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1923--

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

*ELLIOTT COUES, 1883-1890. CHAS. F. BATCHELDER, 1900-1905. • [ 1883-1891.

ROBERT iiIDGWAY, 1 1895--1898. *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1890-1895.

I 1891--1894. H. W. HENSHAW, [ 1911--1918. C. HART MERRIAM, 1894--1900.

*CHAs. B. CORY, 1898-1903.

E. W. NELSON, 1903--1908. FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1905-1911. A. K. FISHER, 1908--1914. WITMER STONE, 1914-1920. GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, 1918--1923 JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1920--1923. ALEXANDER WETMORE, 1923--

JOSEPH GRINNELL, 1923-

SECRETARIES.

C. HART MERRIAM, 1883--1889. *JoEN $. SAGE, 1889--1917. T. S. PALMER, 1917-

TREASURERS.

C. HART MERRIAM, 1883--1885. *WILLIAM DVTCHER, 1887--1903. *CHAs. B. CORY, 1885-1887. JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1903--1920.

W. L. McATEE, 1920-

*Deceased.

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

*J. A. ALLEN, 1883-1921. *S. 1 ½. BAIRD, 1883--1887. *WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1883-1919. *MontAGUE CHAMBERLAIN, 1883--1888. *ELLIOTT, COUES, 1883--1899.

1883--1894. H. W. HENSHAW, 1911--1918. *GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, 1883--1890. C. HART MERRIAM, 1883- ROBERT RIDGWAY, 1883--

I 1885--1895. *CHAs. B. CORY, [ 1896-1921. *WILLIAM DUTCHER, 1887-1920. *D. G. ELLIOTT, 1887--1915.

r 1887--1895.

LEONHARD STEJNEGER, • 1896-1899. *THOMAS MclLwRA•TH, 1888--1889. *JOHN H. SAGE, 1889--1925. *N. S. Goss, 1890-1891.

CHAS. 17. BATCHELDER, 1891- FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 1894--

*CHARLES E. BENDIRE, 1895--1897. A. K. FISHER, 1895- JONATHAN DWIGHT, 1896- RUTHYEN DEANE, 1897-- WITMER STONE, 1898- THOMAS S. ROBERTS, 1899- E. W. NELSON, 1900- C. W. RICHMOND, 1903- F. A. LUCAS, 1905-1921. W. H. OSGOOD, 1911--1918, 1920- JOSEPH GRINNELL, 1914-- T. S. PALMER, 1917- HARRY C. OBERHOLSER, 1918- GEO. BIRD GRINNELL, 1918--1923 ARTHUR C. BE•r, 1921- ALEXANDER WETMORE, 1923- JAMES H. FLEMING, 1923--

Officers are ex-officio members of the Council during their terms of office and ex-presidents are members for life. Ex-officio members are included in the above.

Elections have been in November except in 1883 and 1884 (September) 1887, 1922 and 1923 (October), 1907 and 1909 (December) 1914 (April) and 1915 (May).

*Deceased.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLIII.

NUMBER I. PAGE

IN MEMORIAM--JoHN HALL SAGE. By Witruer Stone. (Plate I) 1 BIRDS OF THE BROWNSVILLE REGION, SOUTHERN TEXAS. By Ludlow

Griscom and Maunsell S. Crosby. (Concluded) ....... 13 THE ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF TIlE MUSEO NACIONAL, BUENOS

AIRES, I•s ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION. By Roberto Dabbene (Translated by T. S. Palmer) .... 37

ALEXANDER LAWSON'S BIRD ENORAVINGS. By Bayard H. Christy. (Plate II) ................... 47

NESTING HABITS OF Tile EVERGLADE KITE. By Donald J. Nicholson. (Plates III and IV) ................ 62

THE FORTY-THIRD STATED MEETING OF Tile A. O.U. By T. S. Palmer 68 RETORT Or THr SECRETAI•Y. By T. S. Palmer ........ 81

GENERAL NOTES.

Nesting of the Black Tern in Wisconsin, 86; The Point Barrow Gull in Missouri, 87; Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) in Arkansas, 87; Black Ducks and Pintail at Bosto, 87; The Barnacle Goose in North Carolina, 88; The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in Ontario--A Correction, 88; Double-crested Cormorants in the Con- necticut Valley in Fall, 88; Mortality among Cormorants on Coast of Chile, 89; A Canner at Painesvillc, Ohio, 89; Wood Ibis in Illinois, 90; Louisiana Heron on Loug Island, 90; Little Black Rail again in Illinois, 90; Northern Phalarope in Dutchess County, N.Y., 90; Early Nesting of the Woodcock in South Jersey, 91; Hudsonian God- wit on Long Island in Spring, 91; Purple Sandpiper on Long Island in Summer, 92; Diving and Swimming Activities Displayed by the Limicolae, 92; American Avoset (Recurvirostra americana) on the Arrow Lakes, B.C., 93; Oystercatcher in Cape May Co., N.J., 93; Status of Upland Plover in Lancaster Co., Pa., 93; Late Nesting of Bob-white, 94; Nesting of Mourning Dove during September, 1925, in Norman Oklahoma, 94; Nesting Habits of the Barn Owl, 95; Bats Eaten by Short-cared Owl, 96; Belted Kingfisher Preyed upon by Red-tailed Hawk, 97; Actions of the Northern Pileated Woodpecker, 98; Arctic Three-toed Woodpeckcr at West Po.?t, N.Y., 98; Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker in New Jersey, 98; Early Flight of Snow Bunting and Lapland Longspur in Connecticut Valley, 100; Gambcl's Sparrow in South Carolina, 100; Dickcisscl at Sea, 101; First Record of Macgillivray's Warbler in Indiana, 101; Mocking bird at Schoharie N.Y., 102; Regulus calendula Breeding in Michigan, 102; The Russet-backed Thrush in Missouri, 102; Land Birds at Sea, 103; Nantucket Island Notes, 103; Notes from Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1O•; Qo•rrec•i. Bn? 104•,

iv Conlents of Volume XLIII.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Bailey's 'Birds of Florida,' 105; Forbush's 'Birds of Massachusetts,' 106; Phillips' 'Natural History of the Ducks,' 109; Wyman and Burnell's 'Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern U.S.,' 111; Glover Allen's 'Birds and their Attributes,' 112; Kirke Swann's 'Two Ornithologists on the Lower Danube,' 113; Brooks and Swarth's 'Distributional List of the Birds of British Columbia,' 114; Jourdain on Parasitism in the Cuckoos, 115; Miller and Griscom on Central American Birds, 116; Sushkin on Palaearctic Birds, 116; Wetmore on the Food of Phalaropes, Avosets and Stilts, 117; Recent Papers by Hartert, 117; Figgins on Subspecies, 118; Gardner on Modification and Taxonomic Value of the Tongue in Birds, 119; Dickey and Van Rossera on New Birds from Salvador and Mexico, 120; Casey Wood's 'Sketches of Oceania, 120; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 121; Kirke Swann's 'Monograph of the Birds of Prey,' 121; E. A. Chapin on the 'Food of Vireos,' 122; Recent Papers by Chapman, 122; Todd on New Furnariidae and Dendrocolaptidae, 123; The Bird Number of 'Natural History,' 123; Herrick on the American Eagle, 124; Murphy on Oystercatchers, 124; The Ornithological Journals, 124; Ornithological Articles on Other Journals, 133.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Editions of the 'Check-List,' 136.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituary---Victor Ritter you Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, 137; J. Douglas Ogilby, 138; The Walker Prizes, 138; Federation of Bird Clubs of New England, 139; Ruffed Grouse Disease, 139; The Yosemite Natural History Association, 139; Upper Mississippi River Wild life and Fish Refuge, 139; The William Charlesworth Levey Park, 140; Ownership of Wild Life, 140; The Farm Journal's Crow Investi- gation, 141; Annual Meeting of the Cooper Club, 142; Acknowledg- ments for support of 'The Auk,' 142.

NUMBER II. PAGE

IN MEMORIAM--EOGENE PINTARD BICKNELL. By Maunsell Schieffe- lin Crosby. (Plate V) ............... 143

THE TWILIGHT SONG OF THE WOOD PEWEE: A PRELIMINARY STATE-

MENT. By Wallace Craig .............. 150 BIRD BANDING---IN PROGRESS AND PROSfEeT. By Frederick C.

Lincoln .................... 153

GAME BIRDS OF THE HOOTER BAY REGION, ALASKA. By H. B. Con- over. (Plates VI and VII) .............. 162

ON A NEw FORM OF LUSCINIA DAVIDI (OUsTALET) FROM THE rI KIANG MTS., YUNNAN, CHINA. By Prof. Peter P. Sushkin ..... 181

A FURTHER STUDY OF THE HOME LIFE OF THE NORTHERN PARULA AND OF THE YELLOW WARBLER AND OVENBIRD. By Henry Mousley. (Plate VIII) .................. 184

Contents of Volume XLII I. v

OBSERVATIONS AND BANDING NOTES ON ThE BANK SWALLOW--II.

By Dayton Stoner ................. 198 TRYXN(• TO TAME A GREAT HORNED OWL. By W. J. Baerg (Plate IX). 214 SCmOLER'S 'B•R•)s or DENMARK.' By Glover M. Allen ..... 218

GENERAL NOTES.

Kittiwake in Ohio, 228; A New Name for Saundersia, Dwight, 228; A Blue Goose (Chen caerulescens) in Massachusetts, 228; Blue Goose (Chen caerulescens) in South Carolina, 228; White-fronted Geese in Virginia, 229; Whistling Swan Wintering at Branchport, N.Y., 229; Colorado Ducks, 231; Wood Ibis and Egret in Hopkins Co., Ky., 231; The Little Blue Heron (Florida caerulea) Near Berwyn, Penna., During the Season of 1925, 232; The Egret at Wildwood Lake, Dauphin County, Penna., 233; Little Black Rail in Illinois, 233; Occurrence of King Rail about New York City in Winter, John F. Kuerzi, 234; Red Phalarope at Sea 100 miles west of Gilbraiter, 234; Black-necked Stilt in Winter on the North Carolina Coast, 234; A New Genus Acentrortyx, proposed for Francolinus nahani Dubois, 235; Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker in West Chester Co., N.Y., 235; Long- cared Owl capturing Ruffed Grouse, 236; Crow Alighting on the Water, 237; The Blue Jay in Eastern Massachusetts, 237; Changed Habits of Blue Jay at Philadelphia, 239; The English Starling at Chicago, Ill., 239; Foster Parentage, 240; Status of the Yellow- headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) on the Atlantic Seaboard, 241; Pine Siskin, fifty miles out at sea, 242; Marriage Relations of a Red-eyed Towhee, 242; A New Race of Rufous-crowned Sparrow, from North-central Lower California, 244; Harris' Sparrow in Colorado, 245; White-winged Junco in Pennsylvania, 245; The Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) in Maine, 246; Dickcissel (Spiza americana) in Massachusetts, 246; Note on the Nesting Habits of the Tree Swallow, 247; Sycamore Warbler in Connecticut, 248; Mockingbird of Marquette, Michigan, 248; Bewick's Wren (Thryo- manes bewicki bewicki) Wintering on the Coast of South Carolina, 249; Notes from Southwestern Michigan, 249; Some Records from the Madison, Wis., Region 1923, 1924, and 1925, 250• Notes on North Carolina Waterfowl, 251: Notes from Central South Carolina, 252; Notes on the Nesting B•rds of Northern Santa Fe County, N.M., 253; An Audubon Bill, 254.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Hellmayr's 'Catalogue of the Birds of the Americas,' 255; Dwight's 'Gulls of the World,' 255; Wright and DeWar on 'The Ducks of India,' 257; Simmons' 'Birds of the Austin Region,' 258; Spitzbergen Papers, 259; Kirke Swann's 'Monograph of the Birds of Prey,' 260; La Touche's 'Handbook of Birds of Eastern China, 260; Lynes on the Ornithology of Sous Territory, South Marocco, 26l; Levauden et al on the Ornithology of,Tunisia, 261; Aves for 1924, 261; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia, 262; Van 0ordt and Verwey's 'Catalogue of the Birds of the Netherlands, 262; Chapman on New Birds from Ecuador and Peru. 262; Lord Rothschild and Collection from N. W. Yunnan, 262; l•Iartert on the types in the Tring Museum, 263; Bangs and Penard on the Henry Bryant Types of B, irds, 263; Recent Papers by Peters, 263; Iredale on George Forster s Bird Paintings,

vi Contents of Volume XLHI.

264; Recent Papers by Domaniewski, 264; Stresemann on Collocalia and Otus, 264; Relation of Palaearctic Birds to the More Important Forest Insect Pests, 265; 'The Lone Swallows,' 265; Brooks' 'Hand- book of the Outdoors,' 266; Correction, 266; The Ornithological Journals, 266; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 272.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawk Destruction, 275; Abundance of Woodcock, 277.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Death of Prof. Sehalow, 278; Sixth International Ornithological Congress, 278; Swan Counts, 278; Lewiston, Me., Bird Reservation, 278; The Oltawa Meeting, 280; Baldwin's Research Work at Cleveland, Ohio, 278.

NUMBER III.

THE DISPLAY OF RICHARDSON'S GROUSE, WITH SOME NOTES ON THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF THE GENUS DENDRAGAPUS. By Allan Brooks. (Plates X, XI) ............. 281

BONAPARTE'S GULL NESTING IN NORTHERN ALBERTA. By A. D. Henderson. (Plate XI[) .............. 288

THe: N•qsT oF THE BAYA WEAVER BIRD. By Casey A. Wood (Plates XIII-XVI) ................. 295

GAME BIRDS OF THE HOOr•R BAY REGION, ALASKA. By H. B. Con- over. (Conclvded) ........... '. . ß 303

BIRDs OF THE ALTA LAKE REGION, B.C. By K. Lacey ..... 319 REM^RKS ON THE ORI(•IN AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE ZONITRICHI^E.

By Rudyerd Boulton ................ 326 COMMENTS OB Two HYBRID GROUSE AND ON TIIE OCCURRENCE OF

TYMrANUCHUS AMERICANUS AMERICANUS IN THE PROVENCE OF

ALSF, RTA. By William Rowa. n. (Plates XVII-XVIII). . 333 THE REVISED CLA•qSIFICATION FOR THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE

A.O. U. 'CHEcK-LIST.' By Alexander Wet,noPe and W. DeW. Miller ................. 337

NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF N. W. LOWER CALIFORNIA. By L. M. Huey. 347

GENERAL NOTES.

Winter Records for the Black Skimmer (Ryncbops), 363; Gannet in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 363; The Least Tern (Sturnula antillar'•m antillarum) in Grenada, Lesser Antilles, 363; Whistling Swan on the Detroit River, 363; Greater Snow Goose (Chen hyperboreus nivalis) at Sound Beach, Connecticut, 363; Status of the Ring-necked Duck in South Carolina, 364; The Egret in Clinton and Lycoming Counties. Pennsylvania, 366; Spring Record of the American Egret at Princeton,

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N.J., 366; Great Blue Heron Alighting on Water, 367; The Sandhill Crane in Luce County, Michigan, 367; Little Black Rail Nesting in Illinois, 367; Correction, 368; Krider's Hawk (Bureo borealis' krideri) in Arkansas, 368; Red-tailed Hawk Killing Snakes, 368; Golden Eagle at Houston, Texas, 369; The Validity of Nisuoides morelii Pollen, 369; The Barn Owl (Tyro pratincola)in Michigan, 370; Short-cared Owl Breeding in Illinois, 370; The Name of the East African White-browed Coucal, 370; Arkansas Flycatcher Nesting at Melville, Sask., 370; Another Arkansas Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis) in Maine. 371; The European Starling in Mississippi and in Florida, 371; Is the Starling Migratory? 371; Further Notes on the Starling in Canada, 372; Blackbird Roosts, 373; Unseasonable Occurrence of the Rusty Blackbird in South Carolina, 374; First Record of the Lark Bunting for Ontario, 375; Migration of the Purple Martin at Vicksburg, Mich., 375; Prothonotary Warbler at Washington, D.C., 376; Spotted Eggs of the Swainsoh's Warbler, 376; Warblers at Sea, 376; Carolina Wren in Northern Illinois, 377; Additions to the New Hampshire List, 377; Some Water Bird Notes from the Florida Coast, 378; Rare Birds in Michigan, 379; The Wisconsin Bird List, 380; Additional Records from the Madison, Wisconsin, Region, 380.

RECENT LITERATURE.

Dr. Phillips' 'Natural History of the Ducks,' 384; Wetmore on the Birds of Argentina, 385; Shelford's 'Naturalist's Guide to the Americas,' 387; Thornsoh's 'Problems of Bird Migration,' 389; Hellmann on 'The Origin of Birds,' 390; Wetmore on Patagonian Birds,. 391; Harteft on the Birds of Feni and Nissan Islands, 392; Grinnell and Swarth, on the Pacific Brown Towhee, 392; Laing in Birds of the North Pacific, 393; Sushkin on Birds of the Russian Altai and N. W. Mongolia, 393; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia,' 393; Wetmore on Fossil Birds from Nebraska, 393; Dr. Fisher's Bibliography, 394; Kuroda's Monograph of the Pheasants of Japan, 394; Bird Dis- tributors on Mistletoe in Europe, 394; Birds Feeding on the European Corn Borer, 395; An Investigation of the Food of Terns in England, 395; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 396; The Ornithological Journals, 398.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The •iji Mud-rocks, 408; Nature-wasters and Sentimentalists, 409.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituaries: John Murdoch, 411; Prof. Herman Schalow, 412; Dr. Frank Evers Beddard, 41•; Francis Nicholson, 413; Michael John Nicoll, 414; Harry Kirke Swarm, 415; William Chase Bradbury, 416; Miss Ada Belle Copeland, 417; Annual Meeting of Cooper Ornithological Club, 417; Field Work of Joseph Dixon in Alaska, 418; Annual Meet- ing of Boston Society of Natural History, 419; Fourty-fourth Stated Meeting of the A. O. U., 419.

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NUMBER IV.

HABITS or THE SPOTTED OWL (Syrnium occidentale). By J. Stokley Ligon. (Plates XIX-XXI) ........... 447

THE LESSER ANTILLEAN SOLITAIRES. By Jame• L. Peters. (Plates XXII-XXIII) ................ 430

THE ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF THE NATURAL HISTORY

MUESEUM IN STOCKHOLM. By Einar LGnnberg ...... 434 ß EXPERIMENTS IN THE ECONOMIC CONTROL OF THE WESTERN CROW

(Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis). By Leon L. Gardner. . 447 OBSEBVATIONS ON FOSSIL BIRDS DESCRIBED FROM THE MIOCENE OF

MARYLAND. By Alexander Wetmore ........ 462 AN UNUSUAL FLIGHT OF ARCTIC THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS. By

Josselyn Van Tyne .............. 469 GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN SPIZELLA ATROGULARIS. By Joseph

Grinnell and Harry S. Swarth ........... 475 USEFULNESS OF OUR SONG BIRDS THROUGH SOIL AND VEGETATION.

By E. A. Andrews .............. 479 THE BIRD FAUNA OF NORTH AMERICA IN RELATION TO ITS DISTRIBU-

TION IN SOUTH AMERICA. By Elsie M. B. Naumburg. . 485 ON RELATIONSHIP EXISTING AMONG LAND BIRDS DURING SUSTAINED

AERIAL MIGRATION. By Charles L. Whittle ....... 493 ON THE USE BY BIRDS OF SNAKES' SLOUGHS AS NESTING MATERIAL.

By John K. Strecker ............. 50l BIRDS or GAsr• COUNTY, QUEBEC. By John B. DeMilie.. 508 REARING YOUNG RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES. By Florence K. Daley

(Plate XXIV) ............... 528

GENERAL NOTES.

Black Skimmer Nesting in Ocean County, N.J., 532; An Unusual Set of Eggs of the Black Skimmer, 532; Gull-billed Tern Bre,e. ding on the Coast of Georgia, 533; The Sooty Tern and Audubon s Shear- water in South Carolina, 534; The Sooty Tern at Charleston, S.C., 535; Sooty Tern in North Carolina, 535; Sooty Tern in West Virginia, 535; Audubon's Shearwater at Cape May, N.J., 536; Old-squaw at St. Joseph, Michigan, 536; The Brent Goose of Spitzbergen and Greenland, 536; Egret (Casmerodius egretta) at Greenville, Pa., 537; Unusual Actions of a Great Blue Heron, 537; The Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Madisonville, Ky., 537; Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Virginia, 538; Yellow-crowned Night Heron in New Jersey in June, 538; A Crane at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 538; The Calls of the King and Virgina Rails, 540; HudsonJan Curlew in West Virginia, 541; Another Preoccupied Name, 542; Turkey Vulture Nesting in. Beaver County• Pa., 542; Hawk Abundance and Hawk Campaigns, 542; Findings m Pellets of Barn Owls, 544; Richardson's Owl in Cook Co., Minnesota, 544; Red-headed Woodpecker Nesting in Maine, 544; Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker in Winchendon, Mass., 545; The Nest of Automolus ochrolaemus pallidigularis, 546; Death of Young Phoebes due to Over-feeding, 546; Nesting of the Starling in Michigan, 547; Idiopsar brachyurus in Argentina, 547; Brewer's

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Blackbird Nesting at Madison, Wise., 548; Nesting of Evening Grosbeak at Wo,odstock, Vermont, 549; Further Notes on the Breeding of Macgillivray s Seaside Sparrow in South Carolina, 549; Dick- cissel in Western Colorado, 550; Nesting Data of Purple Martin at Vicksburg, Mich., 550; On a Guatemalan Specimen of Progne sinaloae Nelson, 550; The Prothonotary Warbler Nesting in Indiana, 551; Black-throated Green Warbler in the Dismal Swamp, 552; The Mockingbird at Suffren, N.Y., 553; Summer Notes from the Kit- tatinny Mountains, N.J., 553; Notes from Northern Ohio, 554; A Correction of "Some Notes from South western Michigan," 555; A New Species for Michigan, 555; Notes on Some Rare Birds from Northeastern Illinois, 556; Notes from Madison, Wisconsin, 556; Avian Thyroids, 557; Passerinc Birds Eating Trout Fry, 558; Effects of Fires on Pine Barren Bird Life, 558;

RECENT LITERATURE.

Chapman's 'Distribution of Bird-Life in Ecuador,' 560; Nesbit's 'How to Hunt with the Camera,' 561; Dewar's 'Birds of an Indian Village,' 562; Penard's 'Bird Catching in S•rrinam,' 563; Bangs and Phillips on a New Weaver Finch, 564; Riley on Chinese Birds, 564; Bangs and Peters on New Guinea Birds, 564; Peters on Neotropical Birds, 564; Birds their Care and PropoRation, 565; Holt and Sutton on South Florida Birds, 565; La Touche's Hand book of the Birds of East China, 566; Duck Protection, 566; Recent Papers by Domaniewski, 567; Clark on Animal Voices, 567; McLellan on Birds and Mammals, of the Revillagigedo Islands, 568; Grinnell and Wythe on 'Birds of the Berkeley Campus ' 569; Mathews 'The Birds of Austraila ' 569; Van Oorts Birds of the Netherlands, 569; Natural Enemies of Insects in the Philippines, 570; The Ornithological Journals, 570; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 570.

NOTES AND NEWS.

Obituaries: John F. J. von Haast, 576; Frank M. Woodruff, 577; John Burnham, 578; M. Abbott ?•razar, 579; The Baird Ornithological Club, 580; M. Charles Aiken s Birthday, 580; Osterhour Collection, 580; Heath Hen Preservation, 580; Tenth International Zoological Congress, 580.

INDEX ......................... Page 581 E aaATA ......................... " 609 DATES OF ISSUE ..................... " 609 OFFICERS OF THE A. O. U, PAST AND PRESENT ........ CouNcil, or TUE A. O. U. PAST AND PRESENT ........ " ii CONTZNTS ........................ " iii

Conten's of Volu•e XLIII.

VI. VII.

VIII. IX. X.

XI.

XII. XIII.

XIV.

XVI. XVI I.

XVIII. XIX. XX.

XXI. XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATES. I. John Hall Sage.

II. Alexander Lawson. HI. Nests of the Everglade Kite. (Two views.) IV. A: H. Howell with Everglade Kite and Nesting Ground of the

Kite . (Two views.) Eugene Pintard Bicknell. Nest and Young of the Emperor Goose. Downy Young of the Black Turnstone and Emperor Goose. Nests of the Yellow Warbler and Parula Warbler. (Two views.) Captive Great Horned Owl. Richardson's Grouse Strutting in Display. (Two view<) Richardson's Grouse at Rest and Strutting in Display. (Two

views.) Nesting Tree and Nest of Bonaparte's Gull. (Two views.) Two Branches of Damba Tree Supporting Nests of the Ceylon

Weaver Bird. Perfect Nests and Canopies cut to show Interior. Incomplete

nests or Canopies. (Two views.) XV. Native with Nests of the Ceylon Weaver Bird. Nests and

Canopies Pendant from Limb of a Tree. (Two views.) Hybrid Grouse, Tympanuchus and Pedioeceles. Hybrid Grouse Head and Feathers. Whistling Swans on the Detroit River. (Two views.) Spotted Owl and Nest. (Two views.) Spotted Owl in Tree and on Nest. (Two views.) Nest Site and Nest of the Spotted Owl. (Two views.) Typical Haunt of the Solitaire in Martinique. The Soufricrc and Mountainous Interior of St. Vincent. (Two

views.) Red-breasted Nuthatches in Cage.

TEXT CUTS.

Map of Lower California ................. Page 348 Map of Blackbird Roosts ................. " 373 Map of Reported Hawk Depredations ........... " 543

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Since its organization in 1883 the American Ornithologists' Union has held one special and 43 annual meetings.

Total Fellows Mere-

Meeting Date Place Present bership 1 1883, Sept. 26-28 1st New York 21 23 2 1884, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 2d New York 16 143 3 1885, Nov. 17-18 3d New York 16 201 4 1886, Nov. 16-18 1st Washington 20 251 5 1887, Oct. 11-13 1st Boston 17 284 6 1888, Nov. 13-15 2d Washington 20 298 7 1889, Nov. 12-15 4th New York 20 400 8 1890, Nov. 18-20 3d Washington 20 465 9 1891, Nov. 17-19 5th New York 14 493

10 1892, Nov. 15-17 4th Washington 20 557 11 1893, Nov. 20-23 2d Cambridge 17 582 12 1894, Nov. 12-15 6th New York 15 616 13 1895, Nov. 11-14 5th Washington 19 667 14 1896, Nov. 9-12 3d Cambridge 14 673 15 1897, Nov. 8-11 7th New York 18 679 16 1898, Nov. 14-17 6th Washington 21 695 17 1899, Nov. 13-16 1st Philadelphia 16 744 18 1900, Nov. 12-15 4th Cambridge 19 748 19 1901, Nov. 11-14 8th New York 18 738 20 1902, Nov. 17-20 7th Washington 25 753 20a 1903, May 15-16 1st San Francisco 7 21 1903, Nov. 16-19 2d Philadelphia 19 775 22 1904, Nov. 28-Dec. 1 5th Cambridge 17 808 23 1905, Nov. 13-16 9th New York 17 860 24 1906, Nov. 12-15 8th Washington 24 750 25 1907, Dec. 9-12 3d Philadelphia 20 850 26 1908, Nov. 16-19 6th Cambridge 17 888 27 1909, Dec. 6-9 10th New York 19 866 28 1910, Nov. 14-17 9th Washington 23 897 29 1911, Nov. 13-16 4th Philadelphia 18 887 30 1912, Nov. 11-14 7th Cambridge 18 929 31 1913, Nov. 10-13 11th New York 28 992 32 1914, Apr. 6-9 loth Washington 27 1101 33 1915, May 17-20 2d San Francisco 11 1156 34 1916, Nov. 13-16 5th Philadelphia 26 830 35 1917, Nov. 12-15 8th Cambridge 21 891 36 1918, Nov. 11 12th New York 14 953 37 1919, Nov. 10-13 13th New York 28 1024 38 1920, Nov. 8-11 11 th Washington 25 1142 39 1921, Nov. 7-10 6th Philadelphia 25 1351 40 1922, Oct. 23-27 1st Chicago 24 1457 41 1923, Oct. 8-12 9th Cambridge 25 1652 42 1924, Nov. 10-13 1st Pittsburgh 26 1637 43 11925, Nov. 9-12 14th New York 30 1705 The next regular meeting--the 44th Stated--will be held at Ottawa

Canada, October 11-14, 1926.