CONTENTS 





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Additions to the Birds of Ventura County, California. By J, G. Cooper, M. D. S5 

 Description of a New Species of Rhamphocinclus from St. Lucia, West Indies. 



By Charles B. Cory 94 



A List of the Birds Collected by Mr. B. W. Richardson, in the Island of Mar- 

 tinique, West Indies. By Charles B. Cory 95 



The New England Glossy Ibises of 1S50. By F. C. Browne 97 



A List of the Summer Birds of the Presidential Range of the White Motntains, 



N. H. By Arthur P. Ckadboume 100 



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

 and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. 



Bv Charles B. Cory 10S 



Additional Notes on the Birds of Pueblo County, Colorado. By Charles Wick- 



liffe Beckham 120 



August Birds of the Chilhowee Mountains, Tennessee. By/ 7 . W. Langdon . . 125 



Some Rare Florida Birds. By W. E. D. Scott ... 135 



The Present Condition of Some of the Bird Rookeries of the Gulf Coast 01 



Florida. By W. E. D. Scott 



Supplementary Notes on the Genus Acanthis. By Leonkard Stejneger. . . . 144 

 Three New Forms of North American Birds. By William Brewster .... 145 



Recent Literature. — Sclnter's Catalogue of the Coerebidae, Tanagridae, and Icteridae, 149; 

 Conclusion of the Great Work on the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 150; Ridgway's 

 Nomenclature of Colors and Ornithologists' Compendium, 152; Bryant on the Ornithology 

 of Guadalupe Island, 154;. Ralph and Bagg '>n the Birds of Oneida County, N. V.. 154; 

 Piatt on the Birds of Menden, Conn., 154; Maynard on 'Five New Species nf Birds from the 

 Bahamas,' 155; Shufeldt's Contributions to Science, 155; Stejneger 'On the Status of 

 Synthliborhamphus wumizusume as a North American Bird,' 155; Ridgway on New Spe- 

 cies of American Birds, etc., 156; Publications Received, 156. 



General Notes. — The Common Murre (Uria troille) and the Razor-billed Auk (Alca torda) 

 on the New England Coast, 15S; Capture of the Razor-billed Auk at Norfolk, Virginia, 

 15S; Megalestris shim, 15S; More News of Ardea wuerdemanni, 159; Ardea egretta in 

 Niagara County, N. V., 159: Further Notes on the Masked B«ih-w..ite {Co/inns ndgwayp, 

 159; Capture of a Third Specimen of the Short-tailed Hawk {Buteo brackyurus) in Floridi, 

 i6o;; A Third New England Specimen of Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni), 161; A Mi- 

 grat on of Hawks at German town, Pa., 161 ; The Saw-whet Owl in tile District of Columbia, 

 161; The Imperial Woodpecker {Campepkilus imperialist in Northern Sonora, 161; The 

 CopPery-tailed Trogon ( Trogon ambiguus) breeding in Southern Arizona, 161 : Capture of a 

 Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus] .it Wareham, Mas-.., 162; Occurrence of Agelaius phacnicehs 

 on the West Coast of England, 10.'; The Redpolls ol Massachusetts, ,03; Vireo solitarius 

 alticola in Tennessee, 104; Another Specimen of the Prothouotary Warbler in Massachusetts, 

 104: An overlooked Specimen of Bachman's Warbler, 105; Remarks on Four Examples 

 of the Yellow-throated Warbler from Chester County, S. C, 105; Discovery of the Nest and 

 Eggs of the Western Warbler {Dendroica occidenlatis , \tt : What Constitutes a Full Set of 

 Eggs? 167. 



Correspondence. — The Camera and Field Ornithology, 16S; Classification of the Macrochires, 



170; The Sense of Smell in Calhartes aura, \->. 



Notes and News. — Obituary — Dr. John M. Wheaton, 174; Economic Ornithology and Mam 



malogy, 174; American Museum id' Natural History, 175; Ornithological Publications, 175; 

 Antedated works on Natural History, 170; Colorado Oruitll >logy, 17 1: Mcllwraith's 'Birds of 

 Ontario,' 176. 



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