Contents of Volume II. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Government Aid to the A. O. U. Committee on Bird Migration, 223 ; 

 The New Maine Bird-law 223; The Collection of Birds in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, 224; The Editor's Change of 

 Address, 224; Obituary — Dr. N. Severtzow, 224; The Ridgway 

 Ornithological Club, 224; 'The Young Ornithologist,' 224. 



NUMBER III. 



Notes of an Ornithological Trip in Arizona and Sonora 



By F. Stephens 



The Gulls of the California Coast. By H. W. Henshata 

 Winter Notes from New Mexico. By Charles F. Batckelder 

 Counter-' Notes on Some Species of Birds Attributed to 



Point Barrow, Alaska.' By E. W. Nelson 

 On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. By W. E. D 



Scott. Third Paper. Phaiuopepla uitens .... 

 Hybrid Quail {Lophortyx gambeli X E. calif or nic/ts). By H. W. 



Henshatv .......... 



A Study of the Singing of Our Birds. By Eugene P. Bicknell 

 Winter Birds of Prince Edward Island. By Francis Bain 

 Notes on Manitoban Birds. By Ernest E. T. Seton . 

 Long Island, N. Y., Bird Notes. By Nexvbold T. Lawrence 

 The Black-capped Vireo and Nonpareil in Southwestern 



Kansas. By N. S. Goss 



The Birds of Southeastern Dakota. By G.S. Agcrsborg 



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RECENT LITERATURE. 



Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 2S9; Willard on Birds of Brown 

 and Outagamie Counties, Wisconsin, 289; Lawrence on New 

 Species of American Birds, 290; Ridgway on New Species and 

 Subspecies of American Birds, and on the Nomenclature of 

 Other Species, 290; Nutting on Nicaraguan Birds, 293; Stejneger 

 on the Genus Ccpphus, 294; Ridgway on New Species of Birds 

 from Cozumel Island, Yucatan, 294; Cory's Birds of Haiti and 

 San Domingo, 295; Minor Ornithological Publications, 295 ; Pub- 

 lications Received, 302. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Abnormal Coloration in a Caged Robin, 303; Another Black Robin, 

 303; Return of Robins to the same Nesting-places, 304; Abun- 

 dance of Par 11s atricapillus near Washington, 304; Occurrence of 

 Helminthophila leucobronchialis in Virginia, 304; Another Ex- 

 ample of Helminthophila leucobronchialis from Connecticut, 304; 

 Nesting of the Worm-eating Warbler {Helm in fh oth e rus vcrmi- 

 vorus) in Southern Connecticut, 305 ; Probable Breeding of the 

 Wheatear (Saxicola cenanthe) on the North Shore of the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, 305; Nest and Eggs of the Philadelphia Vireo, 305 ; 



