CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE 



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 . i 



Some Birds of Arizona. By Edgar A. Mearns ... .60 



List of Birds observed in Summer and Fall on the Upper 



Pecos River, New Mexico. By H. W. Henskatv . . -73 



On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. By W. E. 



D. Scott Si 



A List of the Birds Observed in Ventura County, Califor- 

 nia. By Barton W. Evermann ....... 86 



An Ornithological Reconnaissance in Western North Caro- 

 lina. By William Brewster ........ 94 



Additions to the Catalogue of Kansas Birds. By iV. 5. Goss 112 



Third Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union . . 115 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Murdoch on the Birds of Point Barrow, Alaska, 122; The 'Water 

 Birds of North America' — A Few Corrections, 124; Stejneger's 

 Ornithological Explorations in Kamtschatka, 126; Torrey's 

 'Birds in the Bush', 129; Holdei-'s Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Lynn, Mass., 129; Publications Received, 130. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Bridled Tern {Sterna ajtcethetus') in South Carolina, 131; The 

 Wild Swan in Prince Edward Island, 131 ; Sandpipers at Sea, 131 ; 

 On the Proper Name for the Prairie Hen, 132; On the Free Post- 

 pubis in certain of the Falconidse, 133; Capture of the Scissor- 

 tailed Flycatcher {Milvulus forficatus) on the Soulheast Coast of 

 Florida, 134; The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (^Mihmlas forjicatus) 

 at Key West, 134; The Baltimore Oriole in Massachusetts in 

 November, 135; Icterus galbiila in Connecticut in November, 

 135 ; The Vernacular Name of Plectrophenax hyperboreus, 135 ; 



