Index:Auk Volume 37-1920.djvu
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In Memoriam: William Brewster. By Henry W. Henshaw. (Plates I and II.) 1 William Brewster.—An Appreciation By John G. Gehring 24 William Brewster.—Resolution of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 27 The William Brewster Memorial 29 In Memoriam: Lyman Belding. By A. K. Fisher. (Plate III.) 33 Midsummer Birds in the Catskill Mountains. By Stanley Cobb, M. D. 46 Notes on the Winter Birds or San Antonio, Texas. By Ludlow Griscom 49 The Occult Senses in Birds. By Herbert H. Beck 55 Birds of the Clear Creek District, Colorado. By F. C. Lincoln 60 Sandpipers Wintering at Plymouth, Massachusetts. By J. A. Farley 78 Sequestration Notes. By Joseph Grinnell 84 On Procellaria alba Gmelin. By Leverett Mills Loomis 88 Notes on Seven Birds Taken near Charleston, South Carolina. By Arthur T. Wayne 92 The Status of the Subspecific Races of Branta canadensis. By J. D. Figgins 94 Bachman's Warbler Breeding in Alabama. By Ernest G. Holt. (Plate IV.) 103 Description of a Proposed New Race of the Killdeer from the Coast of Peru. By Frank M. Chapman 105 Descriptions of a New Species and Subspecies ofTyrannidae. By Charles B. Cory 108 The Thirty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. By T. S. Palmer 110 General Notes. — The Black Skimmer on Long Island, N. Y., 126; Another Record of the White Pelican in New York, 126; A Note on the Southern Teal, 126; Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator) in Western Minnesota. A Correction, 127; Wild Swan on Long Island, N. Y., 127; Notes on Some Shore Birds of the Alabama River, Montgomery County, Ala., 127; The Black Rail at St. Marks, Florida, 128; Purple Gallinule in North Carolina, 130; Breeding of the Mourning Dove in Maine, 130; The Status of Harlan's Hawk in Colorado, 130; White Gyrfalcon (Falco islandus) in Montana, 132; The Hawk Owl in North Dakota, 132; Pileated Woodpecker in Morris County, N. J., 132; Unusual Habits of Chimney Swift, 132; Empidonax griseus in Nevada, 133; The Crow in Colorado, 134; Appearance of the Canada Jay at Moorehead, Minn., 134; Note on the Food of the Starling (Stumus vulgaris), 135; Harris' Sparrow in Michigan, 135; American Golden-eye and White-crowned Sparrow in Northern Michigan in Summer, 135; Lanius ludovicianus migrans in North Dakota, 135; Bohemian Waxwings in Chicago, Ill., 135; The Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrula) at Chicago, Ill., 135; Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata celata) in Massachusetts, 137; Fall Records of Mourning Warbler in Western Missouri, 137; Breeding of the Canadian Warbler and Northern Water-Thrush in New Jersey, 137; T Hermit Thrush's Nest in Unusual Location, 138; Peculiar Nesting of Hermit Thrushes, 138; The Bluebird in Cuba, 140; Rare or Uncommon Birds at Rochester, N. Y., 140; Notes from St. Marks, Fla., 142; Bird Notes on the Wisconsin River, 143; Abundance of Periodical Cicadas Diverting Attacks of Birds from Cultivated Fruits, 144; Nomenclatural Casuistry, 145; Supplementary Note on J. P. Giraud, 145. Recent Literature.—Van Oort's 'Birds of Holland,' 147 Taverner's 'Birds of East Canada' 147 'The Birds of North Carolina,' 149 Hine on Birds of the Katmai Region, Alaska, 150 Witherby's 'Handbook of British Birds,' 151 A Geographical Bib- liography, of British Ornithology, 152 Birds of the Expedition to Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, 153 Swann's 'Synoptical List of the Accipitres,' 154 Burns' 'Ornithology of Chester County, Pennsylvania,' 155 Mailliard's 'Notes on the Avifauna of the Inner Coast Range of California,' 156 Bailey's 'Raptorial Birds of Iowa,' 156 Mrs. Farwell's 'Bird Observations near Chicago,' 156 Hudson's 'Book of a Naturalist,' 158 Dixon on Wild Ducks in a City Park, 158; Recent Circulars by Forbush, 159 The Birds of the Albatross Expedition of 1899-1900, 159 Coker on the Guano Birds of Peru, 160 Scoville's 'The Out-of-Doors Club,' 162 Giflord's 'Field Notes on the Land Birds of the Galapagos Islands,' 162 Hall and Grinnell on Life Zone Indicators in California, 163 Dabbene on Argentine Forms of the Genera Geositta and Cinclodes, 164 Cory's 'Review of the Genera Siptornisand Cranioleuca,' 164 Chapman on New South American Birds, 165 Oberholser on Larus hyperboreus barrovianus, 166 Contributions to the Zoogeography of the Palaearctic Region, 166 Annual Report of the Chief of the Biological Survey, 167 Shufeldt on the Birds of Brazil, 167 The Food of Australian Birds, 168 The Ornithological Journals, 168 Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 173 Additional Publications Received, 178. Correspondence. — International Ornithological Congress, 179; Name of the Red- footed Booby, 180; Ornithological Pronunciation, 181. Notes and News.—Editorial Note, 182; Obituary: Dr. Charles Conrad Abbott, 183; Obituary: Edward Everett Brewster, 184; Obituary: Barron Brainerd, 184; Recording Migration, 185; Election of Officers of the Nuttall Club, 185; A. O. U. Committee on Nomenclature and Classification of N. A. Birds, 186; Bird Collection of the Ottawa Museum, 186; Oldest Members of the A. O. U., 186; Publications of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 186; The South African Biological Society, 187; Dinner of the D. V. O. C, 187; Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, 187; Educational Work of the California Fish and Game Commission, 188; Endowment of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California, 188.
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A Revision of the Genus Eupsychortyx. By W. E. Clyde Todd. (Plates V-VI.) 189 Observations on the Habits of Birds at Lake Burford, New Mexico. By Alexander Wetmore. (Plates VII-IX.) 221 Additions to the Avifauna of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, Including four Species new to North America. By G. Dallas Hanna 248 Extracts from Notes made while in Naval Service. By W. T. Helmuth 255 The Plumage of Gulls in Relation to Age as Illustrated by the Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) and Other Species. By Jonathan Dwight, M. D. (Plates X-XIV.) 262 The Subspecies of Branta canadensis (Linn.) By H. S. Swarth. 268 Description of a New North American Duck. By Wharton Huber 273 Fifth Annual List of Proposed Changes in the A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds. By Harry C. Oberholser 274 General Notes.—A Loon (Gavia immer) Caught on a Fishing Line, 286; Intestinal Caeca in the Anhinga, 286; On the Nesting of the Black Duck in Ohio, 287; The American and European Widgeon in Massachusetts, 288; Whistling Swan (Olor columbianus) in Massachusetts, 289; Habits of the Two Black Ducks (Anas rubripes and Anas ribripes tristis), 289; Flight of Water Fowl at Washington, D. C, 291; Nesting of the Greater Yellow-Legs in Newfoundland, 292; Nesting of the Little Black Rail in Atlantic County, N. J., 292; Maggots in the Ears of Nestling Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperi) 293; Age attained by the Hyacinth Macaw, 293; Curious Habits of the Whip-poor-will, 293; Aeronautes melanoleucus (Baird) versus Aeronantes saxatalis (Woodhouse), 294; A New Name for Phaeochroa Gould, 295; Great Crested Flycatcher in Massachusetts in Winter, 295; The Song of the Boat-tailed Grackle, 295; Clark's Crow in Denver, 297; Another Occurrence of the Starling Near Montgomery, Alabama, 298; A Flight of Newfoundland Crossbills, 298; Evening Grosbeaks at Valley Falls, N. Y., 298; Evening Grosbeak at Brantingham, Lewis Co., N. Y., 299; The Evening Grosbeak in Monte Vista, Colo., 299; Some Sparrow Notes from Madison, Wisconsin, 299; Zonotrichia albicollis again in Colorado, 300; The Proper Name of the West African Serin, 299; The Louisiana Tanager in Massachusetts, 301; Bohemian Waxwing in Illinois, 301; The Yellow-throated Warbler in Central New York—A Correction, 299; The Louisiana Water-Thrush Breeding at Graniteville, Aiken County, South Carolina, 302; Elminia Bonaparte Preoccupied, 302; Toxostoma crissalis versus Toxostoma dorsalis, 303; The Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe lencorhoa) in Eastern Pennsylvania, 303; Additional Notes on the Birds of Red Deer, Alberta, 304; Buds of Irregular Occurrence on Long Island, 306; Rare and Uncommon Birds at Branchport, Yates Co., N. Y., 307; Unusual Winter Bird Records for Iowa City, Iowa, 308; Notes on Winter Birds of the Missouri Ozarks, 309; Mesa County, Colo., Notes, 310; Some North American Birds Obtained in Japan, 311; The Color of Natal Down in Passerine Birds; 312; Birds and Tent Caterpillars, 312. Recent Literature.—Baldwin's 'Bird Banding by Means of Systematic Trapping, 314; Chapman on New South American Birds, 315; Cory's 'Catalogue of Birds of the Americas', 315; Witherby's 'Handbook of British Birds,' 316; A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology, 317; Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies, 317; Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Club, 318; Hollister's Account of the National Zoo, 319; Cory's Review of the Genus Rhynchocyclus, 319; Recent Papers by Bangs and Penard, 320; Van Oort's 'Birds of Holland,' 320; Kirk Swann's 'Synoptical List of the Accopitres', 321; Dr. Shufeldt's Bibliography, 321; Stuart Baker on Egg Collecting and its Objects, 321; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 322; Pine-seed Eaters in British Garhwal, 325; The Ornithological Journals, 325; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 334; Additional Publications Received, 338. Correspondence.—An "Occult Food Sense" in Birds, 339; The Search for Food by Birds, 341; Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle America, Vol. VIII,' 344. Notes and News.—Obituary: James Mellville Macoun, 346; A. O. U. Committee on Classification and Nomenclature, 346; Migratory Bird Treaty, 347; Bird Reservations, 347; Modification in Federal Regulations, 347; Pacific Northwest Bird and Mammal Club, 347|96}}; Complete Sets of 'The Auk,' 348; The Wilson Ornithological Club, 352; Correction, 352; Errata, 352.
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Notes on Some American Ducks. By Allan Brooks. (Plates XV-XVI.) 353 Relative Abundance of Wild Ducks at Delavan, Wisconsin. By N. Hollister 367 Recollections op Audubon Park. By George Bird Grinnell (Plates XVII-XVIII 372 Courtship in Birds. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. 380 Observations on the Habits of Birds at Lake Burford, New Mexico By Alexander Wetmore 393 Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Rusty Blackbird in Northern New England. By Fred H. Kennard. (Plates XIX-XX). 412 The Genera of Ceryline Kingfishers. By Waldron DeWitt Miller 422 Ontario Bird Notes. By J. H. Fleming and Hoyes Lloyd 429 Seventeenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds 439 General Notes.—Notes on the Black-crowned Night Heron in Western New York, 449; Bittern Displaying its White Nuptial Plumage, 450; The Knot in Mon- tana, 451; Tringa Auct. versus Calidris Anon., 451; Early Virginia Rail in New York, {{djvu page link|452; Least Flvcatcher in Michigan in April, 453; A New Name for Anairetes Reichenbach, 453; A Raven Pellet, 453; The Purple Grackle at Albany, Georgia, 454; Note on the Generic Names Schiffornis Bonaparte and Scotothorus Oberholser, 454; Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina) in Minnesota in Midsummer, 455; Evening Grosbeaks Common at Lakewood, N. J., 456; Evening Grosbeaks at Princeton, N. J., 456; The Newfoundland Cross- bill in the Washington Region, 456; White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) in West Virginia, 456; An Erroneous Kansas Record for Baird's Sparrow, 457; A Scarlet Tanager at Thirty-fourth Street, New York, 458; Bohemian Waxwing at Seattle, Washington, During the Winter of 1919-1920, 458; Bohemian Waxwing at Salem, Mo., 460; Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilia garrula) at Rochester, N. Y., 461; Bohemian Waxwing at Rochester, N. Y., 462; Autumnal Stay of the Parula Warbler in Maine, 462; The Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus) on the Coast of South Carolina, 462; Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) at Detroit, Michigan, 463; Penthestcs hudsonicus hudsonicus in North Dakota, 463; Labrador Brown-capped Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) at Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y., 463; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in the Boston Public Garden, 464; The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptilla caerulea caerulca) at Quebec, P. Q., 464; The Russet-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata ustulata) Taken near Charleston, S. C, 465; Remarkable Migration of Robins, 466; Some Rare Birds for Yates County, N. Y., 466; Notes from Springfield, Mass., 467; Notes from St. Louis, Mo., 467; Merrem's Beytrage, 468; Erratum, 468. Recent Literature.— Mathews' 'Check-List of the Birds of Australia. Part 1,' 469; Mathews' 'Birds of Australia,' 470; MacGregor's 'Index to the Genera of Buds,' 471- Witherby's 'Handbook of British Birds,' 472; Hartert's 'Die Vogel der Palaarktishen Fauna,' 472; Chapman's 'What Bud is That?,' 473; Horsfall on the Habits of the Sage Grouse, 474; Kirk Swann's 'Synoptical List of the Accipitres' 475; Bibliography of British Ornithology, 475; Brook's 'The Buzzard at Home' 475; The Nebraska Waterfowl and their Food, 476; Bartsch on the Bird Rookeries of the Tortugas, 476; Bangs and Penard on Two New American Hawks 477; Kuroda on New Japanese Pheasants, 477; Freeman's 'Bud Calendar for the Fargo Region; 478; Grinnell on the English Sparrow in Death Valley 478 Rowan and Others on the Nest and Eggs of the Common Tern, 479 Report of the National Zoological Park, 480; Ornithology of the Princeton Patagonian Expedition, 480; Nicoll's Handlist of the Birds of Egypt, 481; Sachtleben on Goldfinches, 481; Carter's 'Shooting in Early Days,' 482; Recent Publications on Conservation and Education, 482; A Fascicle of Papers on British Economic Ornithologv, 483; The Ornithological Journals, 485; Ornithological Articles in other Journals, 494; Additional Publications Received, 497. Correspondence.—A. O. U. Luncheons, 498; Popular Nomenclature, 499; Precellaria vittata Forster is not Halobaena Gmelin, 505. Notes and News.—Obituary Notice: Frank Slater Daggett, 508; Horace Winslow Wright 509; Thomas McAdory Owen, 510; Charles Gordon Hewitt, 511; Johan Axel Palmen, 511; Bird Banding 512; The Permanent Funds of the A. O. U. 513; Annual Meeting of the B. O. U., 514; Annual Meeting of the R. A. O. U. 515; Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for the Study and Protection of Birds 516; American Fossil Buds, 516; Handwriting of Ornithologists, 516; Distribution of Ornithologists, 517; Personal Mention, W. H. Osgood, 517; Alexander Wetmore, 517; James L. Peters, 517; Washington Meeting of the A. O. U., 517.
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Limicoline Voices. By John Treadwell Nichols 519 Summer Bird Records from Lake County, Minnesota. By Charles Eugene Johnson 541 In the Haunts of Cairns' Warbler. By C. W. G. Eifrig 551 Pattern Development in Teal. By Glover M. Allen 558 Notes on the Birds of Southeastern North Carolina. By Eduard Fleisher 565 Migration and Physical Proportions. A Preliminary Study. By C. K. Averill 572 General Notes.—Roseate Tern (Sterna dougalli) Breeding in Virginia, 579; Egret in South Orleans, Mass., 579; The Louisiana Heron (Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis) at Cape May, N. J., 580; The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) on the New Jersey Coast, 580; Marbled Godwit on Long Island, N. Y., 581; The Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipalmatus) in Nova Scotia, 581; The Willet in Nova Scotia, 582; Breeding of the Semipalmated Plover (Aegialilis semipalmata) in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, 583; The Cowbird's Whistle, 584; Dance of the Purple Finch, 584; Breeding of the Evening Grosbeak in Manitoba, 585; A Change in the Nesting Habits of the Common House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), 586; Notes on the Acadian Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Passer-herbulus nelsoni subvirgatus), 587; Notable Warblers Breeding Near Aiken, S. C., 589; The Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica dominica) at Cape May, N. J., 591; The Black-poll Warbler and Bicknell's Thrush at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 591; The Summer Resident Warblers (Mniotiltidae) of Northern New Jersey, 592; A Peculiarly Marked Example of Dumetella carolinensis, 593; The Hudsonian Chickadee in New Jersey, 593; The Plain Titmouse, a New Bird for Oregon, 594; The Singing of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus c. calendula), 594; Notes from Seal Island, Nova Scotia, 596; Some Summer Residents of Dutchess County, N. Y., 597; Bird Notes from Collins, N. Y., 598; Additions to the 'Birds of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Maryland, 598; Rare and Unusual Birds in the Chicago Area During the Spring of 1920, 600; Items Relative to Some Costa Rican Birds, 601; Observations of a Remarkable Night Migration, 604. Recent Literature.—Townsend's 'Supplement to Birds of Essex County,' 606; Bannerman's 'Birds of the Canary Islands,' 607; Mathews' 'The Birds of Australia," 609; Leavitt's 'Bird Study in Elementary Schools,' 609; Hudson's Recent Bird Books, 610; 'Aves' in the Zoological Record for 1917, 611; Stresemann's 'Avifauna Macedonica,' 611; Wood on the Eyes of the Burrowing Owl, 612; Murphy on the Seacoast and Islands of Peru, 613; Dr. Shufeldt's Bibliography, 613; Birds of the National Parks, 614; Game Laws for 1920, 614; Peters on a New Jay, 615; Chapman on Ostinops decumanus, 615; Lonnberg on 'The Birds of the Juan Fernandez and Easter Island,' 615; Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology, 616; Spring Migration Notes of the Chicago Area, 616; Nomenclature of the Birds of Bavaria, 617; Van Cleve's 'Acanthocephala of the Canadian Arctic Expedition,' 618; Economic Ornithology in Recent Entomological Publications, 619; The Bird Interest in Iowa Lakes, 620; Bird Liming in Lower Egypt, 621; The Ornithological Journals, 621; Ornithological Articles in Other Journals, 631; Additional Publications Received, 633. Correspondence.—Popular Bird Names, 634; Baker on the Birds of the Pleistocene, 634. Notes and News.—Obituary Notices: William Dutcher, 636; Herbert H. Smith, 637; Nicholas Alexievich Sarudny, 638; Frederick W. Headley, 638; Henry K. Oliver, 639; John H. Flanagan, 639; Robert L. Maitland, 640; Note on Biography of Ludwig Kumlein, 640; Government Publications of Birds, 640; Ornithology of the Twentieth Century, 640; Meeting of the Swiss Society for Bird Study, 641; Meeting of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, 641; Gilbert White bicentenary, 641; Rollo H. Beck, personal mention, 641; The Washington Meeting of the A. O. U., 641.
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