CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. First Paper. By W. E. P. Scott i 

 Bikd Names of the Selish, Paii-Uta, and Shoshoni Indians. By W. J. Hoffman, 



M. P. . . ■ 7 



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



Observations on Elanoides forficatus and Ictinia subccerulea in Kansas. By N. S. Gos.i 19 



Manitoban Notes. By Ernest E. T. Seton 21 



On the Function of the Inferior Larynx in Birds. Bv % M. W. Kitchen, M. P. . 24 

 Notes on the Occurrence of Certain Birds in the Mississippi Valley. By W. 



II'. Cooke . . 31 



The Nesting Habits of the Cape May Warbler {Pendrceca tigrina). By Montague 



Chamberlain 



33 



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



Field Notes from Pictou County, Nova" Scotia. By James McKinlay, ... 39 



Analecta Ornithologica. Fourth Scries. By Leonhard Stejneger 43 



Preliminary' Report of the Committee on Bird Migration. By C. Hart Met •riant, 



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 



1SS4. By William Brewster 84 



Recent Literature. — Abbott's 'A Naturalist's Rambles about Home,' 86; Seebohm's History 

 of British Birds, 38; Ingersoll's 'Country Cousins,' 91 ; Langille's 'Our Birds in their Haunts': 

 A Popular Treatise on the Birds of Eastern North America,' 91 ; Stejnetjer on the Wrens of the 

 Subgenus Anortftura, 94 ; Stejneger on the Ptarmigans of the group Attagen, 94; Stejneger on 

 New Species of Birds from Kamtschatka, 95; Stejneger on Recent Ornithological Publications 

 in the United States, 95 ; Merriam on a Bird New to the Bermudas, etc., 95 ; Shufeldt on the 

 Osteology of Ceryle Alcyon, 95 ; Shufeldt on the Avian Patella, 9'3; Minor Ornithological Pub- 

 lications, 96; Publications Received, 101. 



General Notes. — Albino Robins ( TurdNS migratoriits), 102; Nest and Etrys of the Golden- 

 winged Warbler {Helminthophila chrysoptera), 102; Nest and Eggs of the Blackburnian War- 

 bler, 103; Nesting ot the Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitherus vermivorus), 103; Oporornis 

 agilis and Pendrceca palmarum palmarum at Shelburne, near Gorham, New Hampshire, 104; 

 Swainson's Warbler oft" Southern Florida, 104; Swainson's Warbler — An Omission, 105; The 

 Red Crossbill breeding in Massachusetts, 105; The Ipswich Sparrow {Passerculus princeps) in 

 Delaware, 105; Peitcaateslivalis and its Subspecies ilfinoensis, 105 ; The Black-throated Bunting 

 in Maine, 106; Foster Parents of the Cowbird. 100; Nest and Em^softhe Rusty Grackle (Scole- 

 cophagus ferri/gineus), 106; A White Crow {Corvits fnigivorus), 107 ; A Remarkable Migration 

 of Canada Jays, 107; The Kingbird in a New Role, 10S; Late Occurrence of the Phoebe '( Sayor- 

 nis fusca) at Brewer, Maine, 10S; Hawk Owls in New England, 108; The Turkey Buzzard in 

 Central New York, 109; Recent Occurrence of the Black Vulture in Ohio, 109; ANew Bird for 

 Illinois, 109; The Great White Egret and Yellow Rail in Ottawa, Canada, no; CEdicnemus 

 dominicensis in Confinement, no; The Western Semipalmated Sandpiper on the Coast of 

 Virginia, 110; The Canada Goose, n 1; The Eider Ducks of the New England Coast, in; 

 The White Pelican on Lake Ontario, in; The Common Cormorant oft" Boston Harbor, 112; 

 The Common Cormorant in Massachusetts, 112; Rare Summer Residents in Kansas, 112; 

 Third Addendum to List of Birds Ascertained to Occur within Ten Miles from Point des 

 Monts, Province of Quebec, Canada; Based chiefly upon the Notes of Napoleon A. Comeau, 

 113; Albinism, 113. 



Correspondence. — Vernacular Names of Birds, 114. 



Notes and News. — Ornithological Publications, 115; Ornithological Societies, 116; The Balda- 

 mus Collection of Birds' Nests and Eggs, 116; The Names 'Junco' and Snowbird, and 'Vireo' 

 and 'Greenlet,' 116. 



Committee on the Migration and Geographical Distribution of North American 

 •Birds. — Circular for 1SS5. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D 117 



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