CONTENTS. 



Notes of a Bikd Catcher. By Frederic A. Lucas i 



A New Vikeo from Grand Cayman, West Indies. By Charles B. Cory . ... 6 



Additions to the Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas. Bv N. S. Goss . ... 7 

 List of the Midsummer Birds of the Kovvak River, Northern Alaska. By Charles 



H. Tozvnseud ... 11 



Summer Birds of the Bras d'Or Region of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. 



By Jonathan Divight, yr 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. Sennett . 24 



Descriptions of Two New Subspecies ok Titmice from Tlxas. Bv George B. Sennett. 2S 



Further Notes on the Genus Acanthi's. By Leonard Stejneger 30 



The Rediscovery ok Bachman's Warbler, Hclminthophila bachmani (And.), in the 



United States. By George N. Lawrence 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 ok Smell in Cathartk.s aura. By Ira Sayles 51 



Fourth Meeting of the American Ornithologist's Union 56 



Recen 

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:ent Literature. — Pleskaonthe Birds of the Kola Peninsula, 61; W. E. Brooks on the Genus 

 Acanthi's, 63; Stejneger on Japanese Woodpeckers, 03; Stejneger on the British Marsh-Tit, 64; 

 Stejneger on a 'Lost Species' of Murrelet, p. 65; Ferrari-Perez on the Birds' of Mexico, 65 ; Ridg- 

 way on aMelanistic Phase of the Broad-winged Hawk, 66; Ridgway on the Species of the Genus 

 ' Empidonax, 6 >: C >ry 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 Shearwater (Ptiffitius borealis) and Several Species of 

 faegers in Large Numbers in the vicinity of Gayhead. Mas: ., during the Autumn of 1S.S6, 71 ; 

 Pkcenicopterus ruber as a South Carolina Bird] J2\ < >c urn ice • f the Florida Gallinule at 

 Springfield, Mass., 72; Wilson's Phalarope {Stegana/'us tricolor) in Rhode Island, 73; Occur- 

 rence of Phalaropus lobattis at Syracuse, N. V., 73; A Fern-e; tmg Woodcock, 73; A Further 

 Note on Colinus ridg'wayi, 74; A Black Gyrfalcon (Falco rustical us obsotetus) from Maine, 73; 

 TheGolden Eagle in Massachusetts, 73 ; A Singularly marked Specimen ol Sphyrapicus ihyroi- 

 deus, 75 ; Occurrence of Ca I 'can us o mat us in Maine, 76; An addition to the Ornithology of South 

 Carolina, 76; The Object of the Shrike in Impaling its Prey, 77; Additional Occurrences of the 

 Connecticut Warbler in M line, 77; The Brown Tnrush laying in the Nest of the Wood Thrush, 

 78; Capture of Three Rare Birds near Hartford, Conn., 7S ; Piranga rubriceps and Tri'nga Jnsci- 

 collis in California, 79. 



Correspondence. — Scarcity of Adult Birds in Autumn, 79; Classification of the Macrochires, So. 



Notes and News. — Ornithologists and Taxidermists, Si', The Ridgway Ornithological Club, S3 ; 

 The A. O. U. Committee on Bird Protection, S4 ; Ornithological Explorations, 84. 



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