Contents
Summer Life of the Sora Rail
Lawrence H. Walkinshaw
Courtship Feeding in Birds
David Lack
Social Nesting Habits of the Smooth-billed Ani
David Edward Davis
Observations on Herring Gull Soaring
Alfred H. Woodcock
Further Studies of the Genus Quiscalus
Frank M. Chapman
Birds of Las Vigas, Veracruz
George Miksch Sutton and Thomas D. Burleigh
Conservation Notes
The Auk
Recent Literature
Chapin's 'birds of the Belgian Congo,' Vol 2
H. Friedmann
Allen's 'sex and Internal Secretions'
Ralph S. Palmer
Craigheads' 'hawks in the Hand'
J. S. Wade
Canby's 'thoreau'
J. S. Wade
Dr Strong's 'bibliography of Birds'
G. M. Allen
Niedrach and Rockwell's 'birds of Denver'
G. M. Allen
Mcilhenny's 'autobiography of an Egret'
G. M. Allen
Periodical Literature
The Auk
General Notes
Audubon's Shearwater on New Jersey Coast
Robert Winthrop Storer
Black-capped Petrel in New York
George Miksch Sutton
Barrow's Golden-eye in Connecticut
M. L. Hoffman
Water Bulrush as a Food of Waterfowl
Howard L. Mendall and Jay S. Gashwiler
Black Vultures in Southern Florida
John C. Jones
Swallow-tailed Kite in Connecticut
S. Dillon Ripley
Hawk Notes from Sterrett's Gap, Pennsylvania
Edward Snively Frey
Unusual Nest of Killdeer
L. Mccormick-Goodhart
Winter Range of the Herring Gull
May Thacher Cooke
Franklin's Gull in New York State
Gordon M. Meade
Gull-billed Tern Breeding in Florida
Alexander Sprunt Jr.
Antipathy in the Screech Owl
Leon Kelso
The Scream of the Northern Barred Owl
Wendell Taber
Saw-whet Owls at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Edward J. Reimann
Saw-whet Owls in Kentucky
Roger W. Barbour
Red-headed Woodpecker Nesting in New Hampshire
Roger C. Fenn
Acadian Flycatcher Flies Backward
Arthur B. Williams
Key West Vireo at Miami, Florida
John C. Jones
Territorial Aspects of the American Redstart
Joseph J. Hickey
Bobolink Rises from Ocean Surface
Vincent Everett Shainin
Bullock's Oriole in Thibodaux, Louisiana
Ava R. Tabor
Hosts of the Cowbirds
Dean Amadon
Alabama Towhee in Northeastern Florida
John C. Jones
Harris's Sparrow in Central Western Illinois
T. E. Musselman
Winter Roosting Habits of Slate-colored Juncos
W. J. Hamilton Jr.
Correction
Allan R. Phillips
Correction
Olin Sewall Pettingill Jr.
The Winter of 1939-40
The Auk
Covers
Front Matter
The Auk
Back Matter
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