CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



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



Florida. (Concluded.) By W. E. D. Scott 273 



The Pine Finch (Spintis pinus) Breeding at Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y. By J. 



A. Allen 2S4 



The American Crossbill {Loxia curvirostra minor) in Large Numbers near 



Charleston, S. C. By Arthur T. Wayne 2S7 



Birds of Tom Green and Concho Counties, Texas. (Concluded.) By William 



Lloyd 2S9 



Additions to the Avi-Fauna of Bayou Sara, La. By Charles Wickliffe Beckham 299 



The Significance of Certain Phases in the Genus Helminihophila. By Spencer 



Trotter, M. D 308 



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



and the Les-.br Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. 



By Charles B. Cory 311 



Summer Birds of Santa Cruz Island, California. By Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. . 32S 

 DESCRIPTION OF a New Subspecies of Junco. By Henry K. Coale .... 330 



Ornithological Curiosities. — A Hawk with Nine Toes, and a Bobolink with 



Spurs on its Wings. By Henry K. Coale 537 



Recent Literature. — Ridgway's 'Manual of North American Birds,' 333; OIphe-Galliard's 



Ornithology of Western Europe, 336; Minor Ornithological Publications, 337; Publications 

 Received, 342. 



General Notes. — Merganser americanus Breeding in New Mexico, 344; The Clapper Rail 

 again in Massachusetts, ,344 : Ictinia mississippiensis and sEgialitis ntvosa nesting in South- 

 ern Central Kansas, \\\: The Merlin (Falro tesalon) in Greenland, 345 ; Notes on Melanerpes 

 formicii orus bairdi in New Mexico, 345 : Egg-laying extraordinary in Colaptes auratus, 346: 

 1 t <%>uiscalus major, 346 ; The Lapland Longspur about Washington, D. C.,347; 

 Descriptions of rwo New Races of Pyrrhuloxta sinuata Bonap., 347; Helinaia swainsnnii 

 near Chester C H., S. C.,347; Another Bachman's Warbler in Florida, 348; Additional Cap- 

 tures of Helminihophila lencobronehialis, 31^: Helminihophila leucobronchialis in New Jersey, 

 }|o; 'Plie Canadian Warbler breeding in Pike County, Pa., 349; On the Correct Subspecific 

 Title of Baird's Wren (No. 710ft, A. O. U. Check-List), 349; Central New York Notes, 350: 

 On the Western Trend of Certain Fall Migrants in Eastern Maine, 351 : A Bird Scare, 351. 



Correspondence. — The Dermo-Tensor Patagii Muscle, 35a; A Protest, 350: The Metric Sys- 

 tem, 357. 



Notes and News. — Obituary — Spencer Fullerton Baird. 357 : A. O. U. and * Auk ' announce- 

 ments, 359: Proposed Monument to Audubon. ^59; Ornithological Work in Progress, 359 : 

 Annual Report of the Ornithologist to the Department of Agriculture for 1886, 36b. 



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