Contents
Growth and Development of the King Rail
Brooke Meanley and Anna Gilkeson Meanley
In Memoriam: William Rowan
W. Ray Salt
The Hatching Muscle" in the Chick"
Harvey I. Fisher
An Analysis of Migrating Birds Killed at a Television Tower in East-central Illinois, September 1955-may 1957
Richard Brewer and Jack A. Ellis
The Gloss of Eggs
Nancy Wilson, Eric J. Preston, and F. W. Preston
Recent Literature
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Notes and News
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Letter to the Editor
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Index to Volume 75
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General Notes
First North American Sighting and Photographic Record of Common Crane, Grus Grus
Brina Kessel and Robert W. Kelly
A New Form of Nest in the Scimitar Babblers, Pomatorhinini
E. Thomas Gilliard
Extralimital Records for the Eastern Kingbird, Tree Swallow, and Black-poll Warbler
Alexander Wetmore
Notes from the North Polar Region
Spencer Apollonio
Systematic Notes on the Olive Warbler
J. Dan Webster
Pied-billed Grebes Mistake Highway for Water
Henry L. Short and David E. Craigie
A Winter Roost of Purple Finches (carpodacus Purpureus)
Amelia R. Laskey
Variation of Egg Size with Age of Parent
F. W. Preston
Use of Concealing Posture by a Screech Owl
Wm. L. Putman
Correcting an Old Albatross Error
Dorothy E. Snyder
The Specific Name of the Bohemian Waxwing
Kenneth C. Parkes
Covers
Front Matter
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Back Matter
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