CONTENTS. 



VOL. XVI., NO. 4, APRIL, 1891, 



The American Anhinga T.(i. Pearson 



Nesting of Wilson's Thrnsh in Western Pennsylvania . . W. K. (^lyde ToiM 



Ornithology and Geology Harry (lordon White 



A Series of Eggs of the Black-throated Green Warbler . . .J.P.N. . 



Hints for " Jur." Collectors Stewart E. White 



lleminiscences of an 01(1 Steel Trap H. II Uriiuley 



Edward K. Green 



The Coloration of Eggs .1. P. N. . 



The Picid.T. of Michigan Stewart K, White . 



The Birds of Long Point I. M. VV. . . 



Some Curions Sets of the Baltimore Oriole's Eggs . . . .1, 1'. N. . 

 Capture of a Glaucous Gull at Long Lsland, N. Y. . . . Arthur It. Unwell 



Hungry Shrikes (". E. I'.rown . 



Variation in the Size of Cowbirds' Eggs I. P. N. . 



Black Gyrfaloon Taken at Lynn, Mass A. M. Tufts . 



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The Yellow -crowned Night Heron Visits the Bay state . . Frederic L. Small 04 



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