Contents of Volume IV. 



Blackbird of Texas and Arizona (Molothrus obscurus), 128. — A Spotted 

 Eggof Empidonax minimus, 124. — Additional Captures of the Curlew Sand- 

 piper in New England, 124; A Second Specimen of the Yellow-crowned 

 Night Heron (Nyctiardea violacea) in Massachusetts, 124. — Additional 

 Notes on the Whistling Swan ( Cygnus americanus) in New England, 125. — 

 Occurrence of Ross's Goose (Anscr rossii) on the Pacific Coast and Inland, 

 126. — Note fin Bucephala islandica, 126. — Notes on the Sea-Birds of the 

 Grand Banks, 127. 



NUMBER III. 



On the Use of Trinomials in Zoological Nomenclature. By Hubert 



Riflffway . ..... ... . . 129 



Remarks upon Turdus pallasi and its Varieties. By II. W. ffenskav) . 134 

 Notes on Birds observed during the Spring Migration in Western 



Missouri. By IV. E. D. Scott 139 



The Rocky Mountain Golden-eye (Bucephala islandica). By T. M. 



Brewer 148 



Notes on some Minnesota Birds. By T. S. Roberts 152 



Melospiza meloda and its Allies. By //. W. Henshaw .... 155 

 A Partial List of the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon, collected 

 by Lieutenant Willis Wittich, U. S. A., with Annotations and 

 Additions by the Collector. By Edgar A. Mearns . . . .161 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Belding and Ridgway's Birds of Central California, 167. — Cory on the Birds 

 of the Magdalen Islands, 171. — Roosevelt's Notes on some of the- Birds of 

 Oyster Bay, Long Island, 171. — Ingersoll's Nests and Eggs of American 

 Birds, 172. — A Revised List of Birds of Central New York, 172. — Hallock's 

 Sportsman's Gazetteer, 175. — Coues's Bibliography of Ornithology, 175. 



' GENERAL NOTES. 



Odd Behavior of a Robin and a Yellow Warbler, 178. — The Blue-gray Gnat 

 catcher and Sanderlingin Minnesota, 182. — Nest and Eggs of the Gray Tit- 

 mouse (Lophopli fines inornatus), 182. — Nesting of Certhin familiaris, 183. 

 The Carolina Wren ( Thryotliorus ludovicianns) breeding in New York, 183. 

 — The Great Carolina Wren breeding on Long Island, 184. — Record of 

 Additional Specimens of the White-throated Warbler (Ilelminthophaga leuco- 

 bronckialis), 184. — Additional Capture of the Cserulean Warbler in New- 

 England, 185. — Another Rutland's Warbler [Dendrceca tertlandi), 185. — 

 Correction, 186. — Rare Birds in Michigan, 186. — The Loggerhead Shrike 

 breeding in Maine, 186. — Notes on some of the Winter and Early Spring 

 Birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota, 187. — Capture of a third Specimen of the 

 Flammulated Owl (Scops flammeold) in the United States, and first Dis- 

 covery of its Nest, 188. — MacFarlane's Gerfalcon (Falco gyrfalco sneer) in 

 Maine, 188. — Nesting of Buteo zonocercus in New Mexico, 189; Capture of 

 the Golden Eagle at Gravesend, L. I., 189. — The Eggs of the Curlew 

 Sandpiper (Tringa tubarquata), 190. — Capture of the European Widgeon 

 in North Carolina, 190. — Bonaparte's Gull in Kansas, 190. — The Booby 

 Gannet (Sula fiber) in Massachusetts, 191; A Word in Defence, 191. 



