CONTJSJSfTS 0£' ^^OL TIME IV 



Subject. Page. 



OOLOGY, 



A Nondescript Egg [Illustratiou], . 17 



— A Plain Egg, 26 



A Stray P^gg, 19 



Breeding Habits of the Hooded Oriole, 49 

 Coues on the Nest and Eggs of the Water 



Thrush (Siurus na'vius), . . 57 

 Lines to the Meadow Lark, .... 1 

 "Sef^t aud Y^friTS o{ Empidonaxtrailii, . 85 

 Nest and Eggs of the American Bittern, 73 

 Nest and Eggs of the Blue-gray Gnatc'r, 86 

 Nest and Eggs of the Chestnut - collared 



Bunting, 79 



Nest and Eggs of the Clay-col'd Bunt'g, 50 

 Nest and Eggs of theCurve-bil'd Thrush, 74 

 Nest and Eggs of the Texas Thrasher, 75 

 Nesting Habits of the Black -and- White 



Creeper, 1 



Nesting of Accipiter fuscus, ... 76 

 Nesting oi' Buteo jiennsylvanicus in a Hem- 

 lock Tree, 51 



Nesting of Confopus virens^ ... 34 

 Nesting of Swainson's Thrush [lUus.], 93 

 Nesting of the Barred Owl, ... 77 

 Nesting of the Black-throated Bunting, 58 

 Nesting of the Canada Jay, ... 27 

 Nesting of the Horned Lark in Central New 



York [Illustration], .... 9 

 Nesting of the Large-billed Water Thr., 10 

 Nesting of the Sharp-tailed Finch, . 6G 

 Nesting of the White-rumped Shrike, . 2 

 Nest of the White-bellied Nuthatch, . 65 

 Note on the Nesting Habits of the Sparrow 



Hawk, 58 



Note on the Nesting of the Black Tern, at 



St. Clair Flats, Mich., June 7, '78, 26 

 Oology from California, .... 10 



Parasitic Birds, 85 



Practical Oology, 34 



Seasonable Suggestions, .... 06 



That Nondescript Egg, 25 



The Sharp-tail. Finch, its Nest and Eggs, 41 



Things Oological, 33 



Travesty Extraordinary, . • . ■ 11 



Two Nests o{ Icterus halti7nore, . . 42 



Oological Notes for March, 1878, . 3 



May, .... 19 



June, .... 27 



January, 1879, . 43 



February, . . 51 



March, . . . 59 



April, .... 67 



May, .... 78 



June, .... 87 



Summer, ... 95 



Oological Items, 3, 11, 50, 65, 76, 86 

 Editorials. 



Subjects OoloyicaUy Considered: — 



I. Attachment Displayed by Birds for 



their Eggs, 44-52 



II. Confidence and Adaptation, . 60 



III. Oological Memoranda, • . 68 



IV. On the Relation of Nidification to 

 Certain other Habits of Birds, 80 



V. The Proximity of a Nest Indicated 



by the Demeanor of the Parents, 88 



VI. Reflections, ...... 96 



Minor Subjects : — 



— A General Cabinet, • • • . . 20 



— How to send Bird's Eggs by Mail, • 36 



— Our Cover, 4 



— Professor Joseph Henry, . . . 12 



Ei>iTOuiAL Notices, 4, 5, 12, 20, 36, 28, 



53, 68, 80, 88, 96 



American Ornithology. 



Acadian Owl, The, ...... 38 



A Day's Spring Shooting, • " . . 82 

 A Note on the House Sparrow, . . 15 



