Contents
The Purple Gallinule (ionornis Martinicus) of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone
Alfred O. Gross and Josselyn Van Tyne
Egg Weights from Egg Measurements
W. H. Bergtold
Nomenclature and Systematic Position of the Paradise Whydahs
James P. Chapin
On the Use of a Refracting Altazimuth Telescope for Bird Observation
Leon Augustus Hausman
Birds of China
Rufus H. Lefevre
Notes on the Bird Life of Northwestern Washington
Thomas D. Burleigh
The Scops Owls of Northeastern Africa
Herbert Friedmann
Obituaries
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Notes and News
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Index to Volume Xlvi
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Dates of Issue
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Recent Literature
Todd on Pachysylvia
W. S.
The Ornithological Journals
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General Notes
Observations of the Horned Grebe in Captivity
John W. Aldrich
Red-throated Loon in Northern Illinois
James Stevenson
Auk Flights at Sea
Thomas H. Mckittrick Jr.
Little Gull at Point Pleasant, N J
James L. Edwards
Golden-eye Nesting on the Ground
Wm. B. Mershon
Breeding of the Pink-footed Goose in Iceland
W. M. Congreve
Caspian Terns (sterna Caspia Imperator) at Palmyra, N J
J. T. Emlen Jr.
Egret at Pocono Lake, Pa
Henry R. Carey
Egret at Wareham, Mass
Walter B. Savary
A White Heron Roost at Cape May, N J
Witmer Stone
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (nyctanassa Violacea) in Morris County, N J
Lester Lewis Walsh
Wilson's Plover on Cape Cod
Oliver L. Austin Jr.
Yellow-crowned Night Heron in New Hampshire
John T. Coolidge Jr.
Some Shorebird Records for Northern Illinois
James Stevenson
Wilson's Phalarope in Maryland
Alexander Wetmore
Wilson's Phalarope Breeding in Michigan
Roger Tory Peterson
Wilson's Phalarope and Baird's Sandpiper in South Carolina
Philip A. Du Mont
The Booming of the Prairie Chicken
W. J. Breckenridge
Domestic Pigeons Nest Hunting on a Mountain Top
Margaret M. Nice
Zone-tailed Hawk in Lincoln Co, New Mexico
Wharton Huber
Screech Owl Apparently Poisoned by Spraying Solution
Wharton Huber
Insect-catching Tactics of the Screech Owl (otus Asio)
George Miksch Sutton
Ani (crotophaga Ani) Wintering in Florida
Philip A. Du Mont
Feeding Habits of Chimney Swifts
John B. Lewis
Alaska Longspur in New Mexico
Wharton Huber
Nelson's Sparrow Nesting in Minnesota
W. J. Breckenridge and Wm. Kilgore
The Genus Brachyspiza Not Distinct from Zonotrichia
A. J. Vanrossem
Another Cardinal in Colorado
W. H. Bergtold
Savannah Sparrow Nesting near Reading, Pa
Earl L. Poole
Connecticut Warbler Nesting in Minnesota
William Kilgore and W. J. Breckenridge
Nesting of the Connecticut Warbler in Alberta
Witmer Stone
The Winking of the Water Ouzel
Charles W. Townsend
Notes from Washington, D C
William Howard Ball
Notes from Northern New Jersey
Robert T. Clausen
Some Abnormal Breeding Records from the South Carolina Coast
Afexander Sprunt Jr.
Notes from Champaign County, Illinois
Leland Quindry
Notes from Cobb's Island, Virginia
C. Brooke Worth
Correspondence
Covers
Front Matter
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Back Matter
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