CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. By W. E. D. Scott . . . 321 

 List ok Birds observed in Summer and Fall on the Upper Pecos River, New 



Mexico. By //. W. Hensharo 326 



Interesting Records from Toronto, Canada. By Ernest E. T. Seton . . . 334 



Analecta Ornithologica. Sixth Series. By Leonhard Stejneger 337 



Description of a New Cardinal Grosbeakfrom Arizona. By Robert Ridgway . 343 

 Additional Notes on the Nest and Eggs of Swainson's Warbler. By William 



Brewster 346 



Early Spring Notes from the Mountains of Southern Arizona. By W. E. D. 



Scott .................. 348 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Family Columbid.e. By George N. 



Lawrence ................. 357 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis. By Robert Ridgzvay 359 



On Junco cinereus (Swains.) and its Geographical Races. By Robert Ridgzvay . 363 



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

 365; Turner's List of the Birds of Labrador, 368; Zeledon's Catalogue of the Birds of Costa 

 Rica, 370; Ridgway on New American Birds, 370; Ridgway on the Type Specimen of Buteo 

 oxypterns Cassin, 371 ; Ridgway's List of Emended Names of North American Birds, 371 ; 

 Minor Ornithological Publications, 372; Publications Received, 375. 



General Note;. — Kirtland's Warbler from the Straits of Makinac, 376; Odd Nesting Habits 

 of the Blue Yellow-backed W^arbler in Missouri, 377; Swainson's Warbler in Jamaica, 377; 

 A Specimen of Helminthophila leucobronchialis in New Jersey, 37S; Capture of two more 

 Specimens of Helminthophila leucobronchialis at Sing' Sing, New York, 37S; Evidence con- 

 cerning the Interbreeding of Helminthophilia chrysoptera and H. Pinus, 37S; The Loggerhead 

 Shrike in New Hampshire, 379; Breeding ofio.i'i'a americana in the District of Columbia, 379; 

 Non-appearance of Juncos at Montreal, 3S0; Familiar Chipping Sparrows, 3S0; Swamp Spar- 

 rows and Yellow-rumps, 3S0; Note on the Capture of Coturnicnlus lecontei and Dendraeca kirt- 

 landi within the city limits of St. Louis, Mo., 3S1 ; On the Feeding Habits of Phalanoptilus 

 nitttalli, 3S2; Colaptes auratus in California, 383 ; A Hawk Owl at Chatham, Mass., 383; An- 

 other Richardson's Owl in Massachusetts, 3S4; The Oyster-catcher (Heematoptis palliatus) 

 in Massachusetts, 3S4; The Baird's Sandpiper {Actodromas bairdi) at Locust Grove, New 

 York, 384; A Bird New to Massachusetts, 3S4; Ereunetes occidentals on the Lower Potomac, 

 3S5; The Great Marbled Godvvit at Portland, Maine, 385; The Little Yellow Rail (Porzana 

 noveboracensis) in Kansas, 385; Harelda hyemalis in Maryland in Summer, 3S5 ; An Albino 

 Surf Duck (CEdemia perspicillata), 3S6; On the Alleged Occurrence of the Pacific Eider i« 

 Labrador, 3S6; A New Petrel for North America, 386; Probable Occurrence of Diomedea exu- 

 lans in Florida, 387; The Bill of the Horned Puffin {Ceratorhina monocerata), 3S7 ; A Crested 

 Auk on the Massachusetts Coast, 3SS; The Thick-billed Grebes {Podilymbus podiceps) Breed- 

 ing in Kansas, 3SS. 



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, 3S9; Ridgway 

 Ornithological Club, 390; The A. O. U. Check List and Code of Nomenclature, 390; Ornitho'- 

 logical Works in Press, 390; Obituarv — Dr. William Wood, Dr. H. A. Atkins, 391; New 

 Natural History Serials, 391 ; Recent Additions to the British Museum Collection of Birds, 392 



393 



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