CONTEXTS OF VOLUME III. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Note on Passerculus bairdi and P. princeps. By Dr. Elliott Coues, 



U. S. A 1 



On the Species of the Genus Passerella. By IT. IT. Henshaw . . 3 



Notes on the Breeding Habits of Cabpodacus purpureus var. cali- 



fornicus. By William A. Cooper 8 



Description of a New Wren from the Tees Marias Islands. By 



Robert Ridgway 10 



Additional Remarks on Selasphorus allexi. By //. W. Henshaw . 11 



Descriptions of the First Plumage in Various Species of North 



American Birds. By William Brewster 15 



An Inadequate "Theory of Birds' Nests." By J. A. Allen . . 23 



Breeding of the Duck Hawk in Trees. By N. S. Goss .... 32 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Birds of the Vicinity of Cincinnati, 34. — Birds of Central New York, 34. — 

 Brown on the Distribution of Birds in North-European Russia, 35. —Sum- 

 mer Birds of the Adirondacks, 36. — Birds of Southern Illinois, 36. — Gen- 

 try's " Life-Histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania," 36. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Three Additions to the Avifauna of North America, 37. — The Rock Ptarmigan 

 (Larjopus rupestris) in the Aleutian Islands, 38. — Coturniculus henslowi in 

 New Hampshire, 39. — Breeding Habits of Geococcyx calijbrnianus, 39. — 

 Occurrence of a Second Specimen of Swainson's Buzzard (Buteo swain- 

 soni) in Massachusetts, 39. — Breeding of the Hooded Merganser (Mergvs 

 cucullatut) in Florida, 40. — Breeding of the Shore-Lark in Western New 

 York, 40. — The Northern Phalarope in North Carolina, 40. — Relaying of 

 Hawks in the same Nest when robbed, 41. — The Willow Grouse in New 

 York, 41. — Pipilo erythrophthalmus with Spotted Scapulars, 41. — Mreo 

 vicinior in California, 42. — Nest and Eggs of Zonotrichia coronata, 42. — 

 Note on Dendntca dominica, 43. — Eastern Range of Chondestes grammaca, 

 43. — The Lark Finch ( Chondestes grammaca) again in Massachusetts, 44. 

 A Third Specimen of Ilelmint/iopJiaga leucobroncJtiidis, 44. — The Black- 

 throated Banting (Euspiza americana) nesting in Massachusetts, 45. — The 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila cierulea) in Massachusetts, 45. — The 

 Capture of several Rare Birds near West Point, New York, 45. — The Fish 



