IN MEMORIAM: THOMAS MCILWRAITH. By A. K. Fisher. (With portrait.)

ON THE HABITS OF THE LAYSAN ALBATROSs. By Walter K. Fisher. (Plates II-VIII.)

THE

NESTING HABITS of the HeroDIONES IN FLORIDA. By A. C. Bent. (Plates IX and X.)

SUMMER BIRDS of the Leech LAKE REGION, MINNESOTA. By Edmonde S. Currier.
BIRD MIGRATION PHENOMENA IN THE EXTREME LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. By Henry
H. Kopman.

THE CORRECT Name of thE PACIFIC DUNLIN. By S. A. Buturlin.

AN ABNORMAL BILL OF Melanerpes portoricensis. By B. S. Bowdish. (Plate XI.)
SOME NOVA SCOTIA BIRDS. By Spencer Trotter

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THE EXALTATION OF THE SUBSPECIES. By Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D.
YOSEMITE VALLEY BIRDS. By O. Widmann.

TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. By John H. Sage.

GENERAL NOTES.- White-winged Scoter in Colorado, 78; Occurrence of the Knot (Tringa canutus) a San Diego, California, 78; A Sanderling with Hind Toes, 79; Black-bellied Plover and Hudsonian Godwit on Long Island, N. Y., 79; The Ani in Florida, 79; The Pileated Woodpecker in the District of Columbia, 79; Empidonax griseus Brewst = E. canescens Salv. & Godm., 80; A Preoccupied Generic Name, 80; Extension of the Breeding Range of the Prairie Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris praticola) to the Eastern Coast, 81; Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker and Evening Grosbeak at Wellfleet, Mass., 81; The Evening Grosbeak in Presque Isle Co., Mich., 82; The Bachman Sparrow (Peucæa æstivalis bachmanii ) in the Vicinity of Cincinnati, Ohio, 82; Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandi) on the Coast of South Carolina, 83; A Few Southern Michigan Notes, 84; Occurrence of the Ruff (Pavoncella pugnax) and Other Birds in Rhode Island, 85: The Black-bellied Plover, Road-runner, and Black-throated Green Warbler in Kansas, 85.

RECENT LITERATURE.- Walton's A Hermit's Wild Friends,' 87; Fisher's Birds of Laysan, 90; Jones's The Birds of Ohio,' 91; Anderson and Grinnell on the Birds of the Siskiyou Mountains, California, 91; Sharpe's 'Hand List of the Genera and Species of Birds,' Volume IV, 92; Ridgway on New American Birds, 93; Nelson on New Birds from Mexico, 93; Oberholser on a New Wren from Texas, 94; Hartert's' Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna,' 94; 'The Avicultural Magazine,' 95; Seth-Smith's Handbook of Parakeets, 96.

SUPPLEMENT.- REPORT OF THE A. Ò. U. COMMITTEE ON THE PROTECTION OF NORTH AMERICAN Birds for thE YEAR 1903. By William Dutcher. (Plates XII-XVI)

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