The Auk

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- Volume 1 (1884) (transcription project)

- Volume 13 (1896) (transcription project)

- Volume 36 (1919) (transcription project)

- Volume 37 (1920) (transcription project)

- Volume 38 (1921)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.

NUMBER 1.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW BIRDS FROM SANTO DOMINGO. By Charles B. Cory. (PLATE I.)

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NOTES ON THE SUMMER BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By William Brewster.

5

DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST PLUMAGE OF CLARKE'S CROW. By Charles F. Batchelder.

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NOTES ON THE BREEDING HABITS OF THE AMERICAN EARED GREBES (. By N. S. Goss.

18

BIRDS OF THE LOWER URUGUAY. By Walter B. Barrows.

20

BIRD NOTES FROM LONG ISLAND, N. Y.. By William Dutcher.

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DENDROCOPOS PURUS, A NEW SPECIES OF WOODPECKER FROM KAMTSCHATKA. By Leonhard Stejneger.

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THE COUES LEXICON OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. By Augustus C. Chapman.

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ORNITHOPHILOLOGICALITIES. By Elliott Coues.

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THIRD ADDENDUM TO THE PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE BIRDS ASCERTAINED TO OCCUR IN THE ADIRONDACK REGION, NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK. By C. Hart Merriam.

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A STUDY OF THE SINGING OF OUR BIRDS. By Eugene P. Bicknell.

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BIRD MIGRATION. By C. Hart Merriam.

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RECENT LITERATURE.

Nelson's Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, 76; Cory's Beautiful and Curious Birds, 81: Stejneger and Ridgway on Birds of the Commander Islands. St; Ridgway on New Species of American Birds, 83: Ridgway on the Genus Tantalus, 83: Belding on Birds of Lower California, 53; Ridgway and Nutting on Costa Rican Birds, S4; Brewster on the 'Birds and Fethered Fowles' of Morton's 'New English Canaan,' 84: Gill's Record of Ornithological Progress in 1881, 84; Birds of Western Ontario, 85; Minor Ornithological Publications, 85; Publications Received, 89.

GENERAL NOTES.

Abnormal Coloration in a Caged Robin, 90; Nest and Eggs of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula), 90; Thryothorus ludovicianus in Massachusetts, 91; Another Example of Helminthophaga leucobronchialis from Connecticut, 91; Nest and Eggs of Ivindestes townsendi, 91: Prehensile Feet of the Crow (Corvus frugivorus), 92: Do Crows carry Objects in their Claws, 92: Nest and Eggs of Couch's Flycatcher (Tyrannus melancholicus

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Number 1

- D. G. Elliot: In Memoriam: George Newbold Lawrence

- Frank M. Chapman: The Standing of Ardetta neoxena

- Carl F. Baker: An Important Factor in the Study of Western Bird-life

- O. W. Knight: The Pine Grosbeak in Captivity

- D. G. Elliot: Descriptions of an Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Ptarmigan from the Aleutian Islands

- L. Belding: Songs of the Western Meadowlark

- A. W. Anthony: A New Subspecies of the Genus

- Gerrit S. Miller: Description of a New Jay from Mexico

- Florence A. Merriam: Nesting Habits of

- William Brewster: Descriptions of a New Warbler and a New Song Sparrow

- George H. Mackay: The Terns of Muskeget Island, Massachusetts

- John H. Sage: Thirteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union

Recent Literature

J. A. A.: Elliot's Monograph of the Pittidæ

F. A. L.: The Fossil Birds of Patagonia

E. C.: Elliot's Limicolæ

F. M. C.: Some Canadian Birds

F. M. C.: Kirkwood on Maryland Birds

F. M. C.: The Structure and Life of Birds

J. A. A.: The A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds, Second Edition

F. M. C.: Hudson's British Birds

J. A. A.: Bendire on the Cowbirds

J. A. A.: Lucas on the Weapons and Wings of Birds

J. A. A.: Beddard's 'Text-book of Zoögeography'

F. M. C.: Townsend on the Birds of Cocos Island

Publications Received

General Notes

Correspondence

W. M. Davis: The Soaring Birds and Currents of Air

Notes and News

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

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- (transcription project)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

Source

- (transcription project)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

Issue 2 (April-June)

- W.S. "Howard's 'Territory in Bird Life'". Pages 288-290.

Issue 3 (July-September)

- Henry Mousley; "Which Sex Selects the Nesting Locality". Pages 321–328.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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