Contents of Volume IV. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 

 Descriptions of Six Supposed New Species of Birds from the 

 Islands of Old Providence and St. Andrews, Caribbean 



Sea. By Charles B. Cory 177 



A List of the Birds taken by Mr. Robert Henderson, in 

 the Islands of Old Providence and St. Andrews, Carib- 

 bean Sea. By Charles B. Cory 1S0 



Birds of Tom Green and Concho Counties, Texas. By Jl'il- 



/ i<7 in Lloyd 1 Si 



The Red-headed Woodpecker a Hoarder. By O. P. Hay . . 193 

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

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



Scott. With Annotations by J. A. Allen 196 



Rare Birds of Northeastern New Brunswick. By Philip Cox, 



Jr 205 



The Present Condition of Some of the Bird Rookeries of 



the Gulf Coast of Florida. By W. E. D. Scott . . . . 213 

 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 />'. Cory. . 223 

 A New Race of the Sharp-tailed Sparrow (Ammodramus cau- 



dacutiis). By Jo/nut than Dwight,Jr 232 



Observations in Western North Carolina Mountains in 



1SS6. By George B. Sennett 240 



Description of a New Euethia from Old Providence Island. 



By Charles B. Cory 245 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The New Canadian Ornithology, 245; Mcllwraith's Birds of Ontario, 

 246; Stejneger on the Species of Pardalotus, 249; Stejneger on 

 two European Thrushes, 241)-. Stejneger on Japanese Birds, 249; 

 Blakiston on the Water-Birds of Japan, 250; Wells and Law- 

 rence on the Birds of Grenada, W. I., 250; Ridgway Ornithologi- 

 cal Club, 251; Publications Received, 251. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Double-crested Cormorant near Springfield, Mass., 253; The 

 Florida Gallinule in Nova Scotia, 253; The Middletown, Conn., 

 Glossy Ibis of 1S50, 253 ; Geococcyx californianus — A Correction 

 254; Hummingbirds feeding their Young on Insects, 255; Otoco- 

 n's alpestris praticola in Chester County. S. C, 255; Clarke's 

 Nutcracker (Picicorvus columbianus") in the Bristol Bay Region, 

 Alaska, 255; Clarke's Nutcracker from the Kowak River, Alaska, 

 256; The Canada Tay in Southern Vermont in Summer, 256; Xan- 

 thocephalus xanthocephaliis in Connecticut, 356 ; Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird (Xanthocep/ialiis xantJiorephalus) in Maine, 256; The 

 Baltimore Oriole {Icterus galbitla) in Nova Scotia, 256; Occur- 

 rence of the Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraitstes vesferfina) at To- 

 ronto, Canada, 256; Occurrence of the Evening Grosbeak in 

 Fulton County, Kv., 257; Winter Plumage of Leucosticte anstra- 

 lis, 257; Note on Spizella monticola ochracea Brewst. , 258; Spi- 

 zella fussilla wintering near Hartford, Conn., 259; Change of 



