The Auk: A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology, Vol. XXXVI APRIL, 1919 No. 2

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Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller.	By Florence Merriam Bailey.	(Plate VII.)	163
An Experience with Horned Grebes (Colymbus auritus).	By Alexander D. DuBois.	(Plates VIII-X.)	170
Historical Notes on Harris’s Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula).	By Harry Harris		180
Notes on the Structure of the Palate in IcteridÆ.	By Alexander Wetmore		190
The Crow in Colorado.	By W. H. Bergtold		198
Winter Robins in Nova Scotia.	By Harrison F. Lewis		205
Remarks on Beebe’s ‘Tropical Wild Life.’	By Thomas E. Penard		217
Problems Suggested by Nests of Warblers of the Genus Dendroica.	By John Treadwell Nichols		225
On the Popular Names of Birds.	By Ernest Thompson Seton		229
The Reality of Species.	By Leverett Mills Loomis		235
Geographical Variation in the Black-throated Loons.	By A. C. Bent		238
Reasons for Discarding a Proposed Race of the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus).	By Jonathan Dwight, M. D.		242
The Birds of the Red Deer River, Alberta.	By P. A. Taverner		248
Fourth Annual List of Proposed Changes in the A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds.	By Harry C. Oberholser		266
New Forms of South American Birds and Proposed New Subgenera.	By Charles B. Cory		273

General Notes.—
ProcellariidÆ versus HydrobatidÆ,	276;
Long-tailed Jaeger in Indiana.	276;
Larus canus brachyrhynchus in Wyoming,	276;
Polysticta Eyton versus Stellaris Bonaparte,	277;
Further Record of the European Widgeon at Madison, Wis.,	277;
A Late Record for Rallus elegans for Maine,	277;
The Proper Name of the Ruff,	278;
Heteractitis versus Heteroscelus,	278;
The Status of Charadrius rubricollis Gmelin,	279;
A Self-tamed Ruffed Grouse,	279;
Unusual Contents of a Mourning Dove’s Nest,	281;
Mourning Dove Wintering in Vermont,	282;
Thrasaetos versus Harpia,	282;
The Status of the Generic Name Archibuteo,	282;
Harris’s Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi) in Kansas,	283;
The Proper Name for the Texas Barred Owl,	283;
Concerning a Note of the Long-eared Owl,	283;
The Short-eared Owl Breeding on Nantucket,	284;
Early Occurrence of the Snowy Owl and the Pine Grosbeak in Monroe County, New York,	285;
The Deep Plantar Tendons in the Puff-birds, Jacamars and their Allies,	285;
The Status of the Genus Hypocentor Cabanis,	286;
A Correction Involving Some Juncos,	287;
An Additional Record of Ammodramus savannarum bimaculutus in Eastern Washington,	287;
The Dickcissel in New Hampshire,	288;
Early Nesting of the Loggerhead Shrike,	288;
A Note on the Decrease of the Carolina Wren near Washington, D. C.,	289;
The Affinities of ChamÆthlypis,	290;
Blue-winged Warbler Feeding a Young Field Sparrow,	291;
The Blue-winged Warbler near Boston,	292;
Nashville Warbler (Vermivora ruficapilla) in New York in Winter,	293;
Four Rare Birds in Sussex County, New Jersey,	293;
Notes from a Connecticut Pine Swamp,	293;
The Name erythrogaster,	294;
Constant Difference in Relative Proportions of Parts as a Specific Character,	295;
“Off” Flavors of Wildfowl,	296.
Recent Literature.—
‘The Game Birds of California,’	297;
Mathews’ ‘The Birds of Australia,’	299;
De Fenis on Bird Song in its Relation to Music,	300;
Dwight on a New Gull,	301;
McAtee on the Food Habits of the Mallard Ducks,	301;
Stone on Birds of the Canal Zone.	302;
Shufeldt on the Young Hoatzin,	302;
Riley on Celebes Birds,	302;
Oberholser’s ‘Mutanda Ornithologica V,’	303;
Miller’s ‘Birds of Lewiston-Auburn and Vicinity,’	303;
Recent Papers by Bangs,	304;
Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications,	304;
The Ornithological Journals,	307;
Ornithological Articles in Other Journals,	312;
Publications Received,	314.
Correspondence.—Identifications (Characters vs. Geography),	316.
Notes and News.—
Obituary: Frederick DuCane Godman,	319;
Robert Day Hoyt,	319;
The Mailliard Collection,	320;
Recent Expeditions,	321;
The Flemming Collection,	321;
Rare Birds in the Philadelphia Zoo,	321;
Meeting of the R. A. O. U.,	322;
U. S. National Museum Collection,	322;
A. O. U. Check-List,	322;
New National Parks,	322;
Geographic Distribution of A. O. U. Membership,	323;
The Migratory Bird Law,	323;
The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club,	323;
Common Names of Birds,	324;
Birds of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware,	324.

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