CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Remarks on Some of the Ethos of Lewis County, Northern New- 

 York. By C. Ilmi Merriam 1 



A List of Birds observed at Coosada, Central Alabama. By Nathan 



Clifford Brown 7 



The Terns of the New England Coast. By William Brewster . 13 



On the Coloration of Eggs. By S. D. Osborne 23 



Nest and Eggs of the Cerulean Warbler. By J. A. Allen ... 25 

 Additional Casks of Albinism and Melanism in North American 



Birds. By Ruthven Deane 27 



List of Birds observed in the Naval Hospital Grounds, in Brook- 

 lyn City. By George Hughes Coues 31 



Notes on Some of the less hardy Winter Residents of the Hudson 



River Valley. By Edgar A. Menrns 33 



Breeding of the Winter Wren at Houlton, Me. By Ruthven Deane . 37 

 Descriptions of the First Plumage in Various Species of North 



American Birds. By William Brewster ...... 39 



Notes on the Habits and Distribution of the Rufous-crowned 



Sparrow (Peuccea ruficeps). By William Brewster 47 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Lawrence and Ober on the Birds of Dominica and St. Vincent, 48; Coues's 

 Field-Notes on Birds observed along the Forty-ninth Parallel, 49; Merrill's 

 Notes on the Ornithology of Southern Texas, 50; .Tones and Shulze's Illus- 

 trations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 52; Adams's Notes on 

 the Birds of Alaska, 52; Wilson and Bonaparte's American Ornithology, 

 53; Coues's Birds of the Colorado Valley, 54. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Kirtland's Warbler again in Ohio, 5s. — Vireo atricapillus in Texas, 58. — Some 

 Light on the History of a Rare Bird, 59. — Occurrence of the Western 

 Variety of the Yellow Red-poll Warbler in Massachusetts, 60. — The Golden- 

 cheeked Warbler and Black-chinned Humming-Bird in Texas, 60. — Cap- 

 tare of two Rare Birds at Riverdale, N. Y., 60. —The White-bellied Nut- 

 hatch concealing Food, 61. — The Great Carolina Wren ( Thryothorus 

 ludoviciamts) in Connecticut, 61. — Occurrence of several Rare Birds near 

 Sing Sing, N. Y., 61. — Occurrence of Birds rare to the Vicinity of Colum- 



