Contents of Volume J I. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sharpe's Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum — Volume X, 

 365; Turner's List of the Birds oi Labrador. 36S ; Zeledon's 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Costa Rica, 370; Ridgwaj on New 

 American Birds. 370; Ridgwav on the Type Specimen of Buteo 

 oxypterus Cassin, 371 ; Ridgway's List of Emended Names of 

 North American Birds, 371; Minor Ornithological Publications, 

 372 ; Publications Received, 375. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Kirtland's Warbler from the Straits of Mackinac, 376; Odd Nesting 

 Habits of the Blue Yellow-backed Warbler in Missouri, 377; 

 Swainson's Warbler in Jamaica. 377; A Specimen of Helmintho- 

 phila leucobronchialis in New Jersey. 37S ; Capture of two more 

 Specimens of Helminthopkila leucobronchialis at Sing Sing. New 

 York, 378; Evidence concerning the Interbreeding of Helmintho- 

 pkila ckrysoptera and H. pinus, 378; The Loggerhead Shrike in 

 New Hampshire, 379; Breeding of L,oxia americana in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 379; Non-appearance of Juncos at Montreal, 

 380; Familiar Chipping Sparrows, 3S0; Swamp Sparrows and 

 Yellow-rumps, 380; Note on the Capture of Coturniculus lecontci 

 and Dendrceca kirtlandi within the city limits of St. Louis, Mo., 

 381; On the Feeding Habits of Pliahvnoptilus nutlali, 382; Co- 

 laptes auratus in California, 383 ; A Hawk Owl at Chatham, 

 Mass., 383 ; Another Richardson's Owl in Massachusetts, 3S4; The 

 Oyster-catcher (Her ma top its pallia tits) in Massachusetts, 3S4; 

 The Baird's Sandpiper {Actodromas bairdi ) at Locust Grove, New 

 York, 384; A Bird New to Massachusetts, 384 ; Ereunetcs occi- 

 dentalis on the Lower Potomac, 3S5 ; The Great Marbled Godwit 

 at Portland, Maine, 385; The Little Yellow Rail (Porzana nove- 

 boraceusis) in Kansas, 385 ; Harelda hyemalis in Maryland in Sum- 

 mer, 385; An Albino Surf Duck (CEdemia prrspicillata), 3S6 ; 

 On the Alleged Occurrence of the Pacific Eider in Labrador, 3S6; 

 A New Petrel for North America, 386; Probable Occurrence of 

 Diomcdca exulans in Florida, 387; The Bill of the Horned Puffin 

 f Ceratorhina m onoce rata) , 387 ; A Crested Auk on the Massachu- 

 setts Coast, 38S ; The Thick-billed Grebe (Podily/nb/ts podiceps) 

 Breeding in Kansas, 3S8. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Republication in 'The Auk' of Descriptions of New North American 

 Birds.— -A Suggestion, 3S9. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Next Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, 389; Ridg- 

 way Ornithological Club, 390; The A. O. U. Check List and 

 Code of Nomenclature, 390; Ornithological Works in Press, 

 390; Obituary — Dr. William Wood, Dr. H. A. Atkins, 391; New 

 Natural History Serials, 391 ; Recent Additions to the British 

 Museum Collection of Birds, 392. 



Index 393 



