Contents
A New Genus and Species of Tanager from Peru
George H. Lowery Jr. and John P. O'Neill
Discovery of Breeding Black-capped Petrels on Hispaniola
David B. Wingate
The Effect of Salt Intake on the Size and Function of the Salt Gland of Ducks
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and Yoon T. Kim
Some Factors in the Decline of the Osprey in Connecticut
Peter L. Ames and Gerald S. Mersereau
Biological and Oological Studies of the Molothrine Cowbirds (icteridae) of Argentina
Gunnar Hoy and Johann Ottow
Proceedings of the Eighty-first Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
Lawrence H. Walkinshaw
Special Review: Russian Ornithological Literature
Charles Vaurie
Recent Literature
The Auk
Notes and News
The Auk
General Notes
Observations on the Day-old Young of the Spectacled Eider, Somateria Fischeri
Colleen Helgeson Nelson
The Type Locality of Atlapetes Albinucha
Raymond A. Paynter Jr.
A Nesting of the Purple Gallinule (porphyrula Martinica) in Ohio
Milton B. Trautman and Samuel J. Glines
Breeding of the Purple Gallinule in Illinois
G. P. Waldbauer and J. Hayes
First United States Record for the Slate-throated Redstart, and First Specimens of Various Species for New Mexico
Bruce K. Harris
White-tailed Kite in Nicaragua
James Bond
Description of a Race of the Double-striped Thick-knee (aves, Family Burhinidae) from Colombia
Alexander Wetmore and J. I. Borrero H.
Male Mourning Dove Rears Young Unaided
W. Reid Goforth
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