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Front MatterSource: The Auk, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1909)Published by: American Ornithologists' UnionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4070793 .
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PAGE THE GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL RELATIONS OF THE LAND-BIRD FAUNA OF
NORTHEASTERN AMERICA. By Spencer Trotter .221
THE USE OF WINGS AND FEET BY DIVING BIRDS. By Charles W. Townsend, M. a . 234
A REPRINT OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF C. S. RAFINESQUE. By Charles W. Richmond .248
A CAROLINA WREN INVASION OF NEW ENGLAND. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. 263
SOME ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF TOWNSEND's BUNTING By Ruthven Deane .269
ANNOTATED LIST OF THE WATER BIRDS OF WELD, MORGAN AND ADAMS COUNTIES, COLORADO, SOUTH TO THE FIRST SECTIONAL LINE BELOW THE FORTIETH PARAL- LEL. By A. H. Felger .272
AN INSTANCE OF HYBRIDIZATION IN HUMMINGBIRDS, WITH REMARKS ON THE WEIGHT OF GENERIC CHARACTERS IN THE TROCHILIDEE, By Walter P. Taylor . . , 291
FIFTEENTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS .294
GENERAL NOTES.- Additional Record of the European Widgeon (Mareca penelope), 304; Capture of the European Widgeion in New Hampshire, 304,; The Lesser Snow Goose (Chen hyperborea nivalis) in Gorham, Maine, 304; A Stecond Record for the Fulvous Tree-Duck taken in Missouri, 304; Third Record of the Purple Gallinule (Ionornis martinica) in Illinois, 305; Wilson's Snipe wintering in Pennsylvania, 305; The Lesser Yellow-legs in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 305; Early Nesting of the Barn Owl in Delaware, 305; Northern Breeding Limit of the Chuck-wills-widow, 306; The Starling near Springfield, Mass., 306;' The Capture of the Red-eyed Cowbird in Arizona, 307; The Present Status of the Meadowlark (Sturnella magna) near Portland, Maine, 307; Another Hoary Redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni exilepes) at Westbrook, Maine, 308; Late Records for Siskins in Chester County, Pa., 308; The third Specimen of the Sum- mer Tanager for Canada, 308; Prothonotary Warbler taken on the Coast of Maine, 309; The Races of the Parula Warbler, 309; Breeding of the Louisiana Water-Thrush (Seiurus motacilla) in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 31F`, Concerning Thryomanes bewicki cryptus in Colorado, 311; *A Correction, 312; Bicknell's Thrush (Hylocichla aliciac bicknelli) in Cumberland County, Maine, 312; The Rank of Certain Groups of Birds, 313; Three Records for British Columbia, 313; Some New Birds for Colorado, 314; Notes concerning Certain Birds of Long Island, New York, 314.
RECENT LITERATURE.- Jubilee Meeting of the British Ornithologists Union, 317; Thayer and Bangs on the Birds of Guadaloupe Islands, 319; Bangs on Birds from Western Colombia, 320; Bangs on Costa Rican Birds, 320; Ridgway on New Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Tropical American Birds, 321; New North American Birds, 321; Widmann on 'The Summer Birds of Shaw's Garden,' 322; Cole on 'The Crow as a Menace to Poultry Raising, 322; Swarth on the Distribution and Moult of Mearns's Quail, 323; Godman's 'Monograph of the Petrels,' 323; Howard's 'The British War- blers,' Part III, 323; Grinnell's 'A Bibliography of California Ornithology,' 326; Mearns on Philippine Birds, 326; Brooks on Birds found in West Virginia, 327; Dear- born on Birds from British East Africa, 327; Dawson and Bowles's 'The Birds of Washington,' 328; Shufeldt's 'Osteology of Birds,' 329; Publications Received, 330.
NOTES AND NEWS.- Obituary: Charles K. Worthen, 332. 'British Birds' pIlan for Marking Birds, 332; Temperature Map of Mexico and Central America, 333; New Publications on Birds, 333; 'TThe Condor ' Index, 334; The Victoria Museum of Natural History, 334; 'Wild-Life Preservation' number of New York Zoological Society's 'Bulletin,' 335.
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