CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE 



Notes of a Bird Catcher, uy Frederic A. Lucas i 



A New Vireo from Grand Cayman, West Indies. By Charles 



B. Cory 6 



Additions to the Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. By 



N. S. Goss 7 



List of the Midsummer Birds of the Kowak River, North- 

 ern Alaska. By Charles H. Toxvnsend n 



Summer Birds of the Bras d'Or Region of Cape Breton 



Island, Nova Scotia. By Jonathan Dwi'ght, Jr 13 



On the Avi-fauna of Pinal County, with Remarks on Some 

 Birds of Pima and Gila Counties, Arizona. By W. E. D. 

 Scott 16 



Some Undescribed Plumages of North AmerIcan Birds. By 



George B. Sc?inett 24 



Descriptions of two New Subspecies of Titmice from Texas. 



By George B. Sennett ■ 2S 



Further Notes on the Genus Acanthi's. By Lconhard Stej- 



neger 30 



The Rediscovery of Bachman's Warbler, Helminthophila bach- 

 manni (Aud.), in the United States. By George N. Law- 

 rence , 35 



The Birds of the West Indies, including the Bahama Islands, 

 the Greater and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the 

 Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory . 37 



The Sense of Smell in Catiiartes Aura. By Ira Sayles . . 51 



Fourth Meeting of the American O hologists' Union . 56 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Pleska on the Birds of the Kola Peninsula, 61 ; W. E. Brooks on 

 the Genus Acanthi's, 63 ; Stejneger on Japanese Woodpeckers, 63 ; 

 Stejneger on the British Marsh-Tit, 64; Stejneger on a Lost Spe- 

 cies' of Murrelet, 65 ; Ferrari-Perez on the Birds of Mexico, 65 ; 

 Ridgway on a Melanistic Phase of the Broad-winged Hawk, 66; 

 Ridgway on the Species of the Genus Etnfiidonax, 66 ; Cory on 

 Birds from several little-known Islands of the West Indies, 66; 

 Minor Ornithological Publications, 66; Publications Received, 69. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Occurrence of Cory's She - w ^r {Puffinus borealis) and Several Spe- 

 cies of Jaegers in Large Nunbers in the Vicinity of Gayhead, 

 Mass., during the Autumn of 1SS6. 71 ; Phoenicopterus ruber as a 

 South Carolina Bird, 72 ; Occurrence of the Florida Gallinule at 



