CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE. 



On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. First 



Paper. By W. E. D. Scott i 



Bird Names of the Selish, Pah-Uta, and Shoshoni Indians. 



By W. J. Hoffman, M. D. 7 



On the Vertical Range of Birds in Colorado. By Frank M. 



Drew . . . . . . . . . . . .11 



Observations on Elanoides forficatus and Ictinia subccerulea in 



Kansas. By N. S. Goss 19 



Manitoban Notes. By Ernest E. T. Seton . . . . .21 

 On the Function of the Inferior Larynx in Birds. Bv F. 



M. W. Kitchen, M. D 24 



Notes on the Occurrence of Certain Birds in the Missis- 

 sippi Valley. By W. IV. Cooke 31 



The Nesting Habits of the Cape May Warbler (Dendrceca 



tigrina). By Montague Chamberlain . . . . . -33 



Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. By William Dutchcr . 36 



Field Notes from Pictou County, Nova Scotia. By James 



McKinlay ........... 39 



Analecta Ornithologica. Fourth Series. By Leonhard Stejnegcr 43 

 Preliminary Report of the Committee on Bird Migration. 



By C. Hart Merriman, M. D. 53 



Swainson's Warbler. By William Brewster . . . . -65 

 The Heath Hen of Massachusetts. By William Brewster . 80 

 Preliminary Notes on Some Birds obtained in Arizona by 



Mr. F. Stephens in 1884. By William Brewster . . . SV 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Abbott's ' A Naturalist's Rambles about Home,' 86; Seebohm's His- 

 tory of British Birds, 88; Ingersoll's 'Country Cousins,' 91 ; Lan- 

 gille's 'Our Birds in their Haunts: A Popular Treatise on the 

 Birds of Eastern North America,' 91 ; Stejneger on the Wrens 

 of the Subgenus Anorthura, 94 ; Stejneger on the Ptarmigans of 

 the group Attagcn, 94; Stejneger on New Species of Birds from 

 Kamtschatka, 95; Stejneger on Recent Ornithological Publica- 

 tions in the United States, 95 ; Merriam on a Bird New to the 

 Bermudas, etc., 95 ; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Ccryle alcyon, 

 95; Shufeldt on the Avian Patella, 96; Minor Ornithological 

 Publications, 96; Publications Received, 101. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Albino Robins (Turdus t/iigratorius), 102; Nest and Eggs of the 

 Golden-winged Warbler ( Hclminthophila chrysoftera), 102; 

 Nest and Eggs of the Blackburnian Warbler, 103; Nesting of the 

 Worm-eating Warbler (Helmithrrusvermivorns), 103; Oporomis 

 agilis and Dendra?ca palmarum palmarum at Shelburne, near 

 Gorham, New Hampshire, 104; Swainson's Warbler off Southern 

 Florida, 104; Swainson's Warbler — An Omission, 105; The Red 



