CONTENTS. 



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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 ok the Birds taken by Mr. Robert Henderson, in the Islands of Old 



Providence and St. Andrews, Caribbean Sea. I5y Charles B. Cory • . . 1S0 

 Birds of Tom Green and Concho Counties, Texas. By William Lloyd ... 1S1 



The Red-headed Woodpecker a Hoarder. By O.P.JIay 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. 



(Continued.) ... . 196 



Rare Birds of Northeastern Xew 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. (Continued.) 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 B. Cory. (Continued.) 223 



A New Race of the Sharp-tailed Sparrow [Am mod ramus caudacutus). By Jonathan 



Divight, 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.--T1ic New Canadian Ornithology, 245 ; Mcllwraith's Birds of Ontario, 246; 

 Stejneger on the Species of Pardalotus, 249; Stejneger on two European Thrushes, 249; Stcj- 

 neger 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 Ornithological Club, 251; Publications 

 Received, 251. 



General Notes. — The Double-crested Cormorant near Springfield, Mass., 253; The Florida Gal- 

 linule in Nova Scotia, 253; The Middletown, Conn., Glossy Ibis of 1S50, 253; Geococcyx califor- 

 nianus — A Correction, 254; Hummingbirds feeding their Young on Insects, 255: Otocoris 

 alpestris praticola in Chester Ci unity, S. C, 255 : Clarke's Nutcracker ( Pit icorvus columbianus) 

 in the Bristol Bay Region, Alaska, 355; Clarke's Nutcracker from the Kowak River, Alaska, 

 256; The Canada fay in Southern Vermont in Summer, 256; Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in 

 Connecticut, 250; Yellow-headed Blackbird [Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in Maine, 256; 

 The Baltimore Oriole ^Icterus galbula) in Nova Scotia, 256; Occurrence ofthe Evening Gros- 

 beak {Cocothraustes Vespertina) at Toronto, Canada, 256; Occurrence ofthe Evening Grosbeak 

 in Fulton County, Ivy., -'57: Winter Plumage of Leucosticte aus trails, 257; Note on Spizella 

 moniicola ochracea Brew St., J5S; Spizella pusilla wintering near Hartford, Conn., 259; Change 

 of Winter Habitat in the Grass Finch, z£a : A Song Sparrow wintering in Eastern Maine, -'on ; 

 The Song Sparrow in New Brunswick in Winter, 360; Unusual Nesting-sight ofthe Song Spar- 

 row, 260; The Sharp-tailed Sparrow {Ammodramus caudacutus) in a Fresh-water Marsh, 201 : 

 Nesting of the Hudsonian Chickadee [Partis hiidsonicns), 201 ; Another Addition to the Avi- 

 fauna of South Carolina, 201; Another Specimen of Bach man's Warbler I J ' lelminthophila 

 bachmani), 262; Additional Specimens of Bachman's and Swainson's Warblers, obtained by 

 Mr. Chas, S. Galbraith, in the Spring of 1S87, 202; Birds laying their Eggs in the Nests of 

 other Birds, 213; Xew Species of Winter Birds in New Brunswick, 204 ; Additions to Mr. 

 Drew's List of the Birds of Colorado, 264. 



Correspondence. — Individual Variation in the Skeletons of Birds, and other Matters, 265; 

 'Scarcity of Adult Birds in Autumn,' 2oS;The 'Proceedings' ofthe U. S. National Museum, 270. 



Notes and News. — American Museum of Natural History, 270; The late Dr. Wheaton's Col- 

 lection of Birds, 272; Ornithological Publications, 272; Destruction of Herons in Florida, 272. 



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