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McChesney, Charles E., notes on 

 . some of the winter and early spring 

 birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota, 187. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus, 197, 225. 

 " scolopaceus, 64. 



Magpie, 94, 194. 

 Mallard, 13, 198, 218. 

 Mama americana, 198, 218. 



" penelope, 190. 

 Martin, Bee, 215. 



Black, 213. 

 Purple, 7, 14.3, 213. 

 Maynard, O. J., notice of his "Birds of 



Florida," 114. 

 Maxwell, Mrs. M. A., sec Dartt, Mary. 

 Mearns, Edgar A., notes on some of the 

 less hardy winter residents in the Hud- 

 son River Valley, 33 ; a partial list 

 of the birds of Fort Klamath, < )regon, 

 161, 194. 

 Melanerpes ervthrocephalus, 1 1, 31, 36, 

 "146,216. 

 " riierminieri, 229. 

 Meleagris americanns, 217. 

 " gallopavo, 147. 

 " gallopavo americanns, 12. 

 Melospiza fasciata fallax, 165. 

 " insignia, 159, 160. 

 " lincolni, 6, 143, 154. 



meloda, 8, 32, 34, 143, 155, 

 160, 214. 

 " meloda pouldi, 157. 



meloda fallax, 156, 160. 

 " meloda .sjuttata, 158, 160. 

 " meloda heermanni, 157, 160. 

 " meloda mexicana, 158, 166. 

 meloda rufina, 159, 160. 

 meloda samuelis, 157, 160. 

 palnstris, 8, 32, 34, 143, 214. 

 Merganser, Red-breasted, 226. 

 Mergulus alle, 228, 236, 244. 

 Mergus castor americanns, 198. 

 " cucullatus, 198. 

 " senator, 198, 226. 

 Mcrriam, C. Hart, remarks on some of 

 the birds of Lewis County, Northern 

 New York, 1. 

 Merrill, J. C., notice of his "Notes on 

 the Ornithology of Southern Texas," 

 50. 

 Micropalama himantopus, 63. 

 Miller, Miss Fannv, strange story of a 



California bird, 109. 

 Mimus carolinensis, 32, 140, 171, 210. 



" polvglottus, 32, 64, i40, 210. 

 Mniotilta varia, 32, 141, 211, 234. 

 Mocking-Bird, 27, 32, 64, 140, 210. 

 " French, 214. 



Mountain, 91. 

 Molothrus ameus, 51. 



ater, 32, 145, 215. 

 " obscurus, 123. 



Motacilla flava, 53. 



" stapazina, 130. 



Myiadestes townsendi, 93. 

 Myiarchns cinerascens, 42. 



crinitus, 10, 145. 215. 

 " crvthroccrcus cooperi, 51. 



" sclateri, 229. 



Myiodioctes canadensis, 



" mitratus, 7, 117. 



" pusillus, 142. 



" pusillus pileolatuB, 40, 164. 



Nauclerus furcatus, 210. 

 Neocorys spraguei, 50, 238. 

 Nettion carolinensis, 198. 

 Night-Hawk, 11, 31, 146. 



Western, 95, 195. 

 Nutcracker, Clarke's, 194. 

 Nuthatch, Brown-headed, 211. 

 Pigmy, 92, 163. 

 Red-bellied, 141, 163, 211. 

 Slender-billed, 163. 

 White-hellied,32,61,92, 141, 

 211. 

 Numcnius hudsonicus, 226. 



longirostris, 147, 197, 225. 

 Nyctale acadica, 85, 235. 



" albifrons. 85. 

 Nyctea nivea, 223. 

 Nyctherodias violaceus, 114, 124. 

 Nyctiardea grisea narvia, 147, 226. 

 Nyctidromus albicollis, 51. 

 Oceanites oceanica, 228. 

 QCdemia americana, 114. 

 " perspicillata, 226. 

 " velvetina, 128. 

 Oporornis agilis, 61, 186. 



formosa, 142, 212, 234, 236. 

 Oreoseoptes montanus, 91. 

 Oriole, Baltimore, 32, 145, 215. 



Orchard, 10, 14 5, 215. 

 Ortalida vetula, 51. 

 Orthorhynchus cristatus, 229. 

 Ortyx virginianus, 12, 147, 217, 229. 

 Osborne, S. D., on the coloration of 

 eggs, 23 ; another nest of the Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flavi- 

 ventris), 240. 

 Osprey, American, 196. 

 Otus vulgaris wilsonianus, 195. 

 Ouzel, Water, 9 1 . 

 Owl, Barn, 49, 61, 62. 

 " Barred, 31, 85, 146, 216. 

 " California Pvgmy, 86. 

 " Great Horned, 85, 95, 146, 216. 



" Long-eared, 85, 195. 



" Mottled, 85. 



" Saw-whet, 85. 



" Screech, 146, 216. 



" Short-eared, 19, 53, 83, 216, 223. 



" Snowy, 111, 223. 



" Western Great Horned, 195. 

 Pandion haliaetus, 96, 224. 



