Contents of Volume III. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Grieve on the Great Auk, or Garefowl, 266; Meves on the size and 

 Color of the Eyes of European Birds, 265; 'Water Birds of North 

 America' — 'A Few Corrections' Rectified, 266; Beckliam's Birds of 

 Nelson County, Kentucky, 268 ; Beckham on the Plumage o{ Reg- 

 ulus calendula, 268; Lawrence on New Species of Birds from Yu- 

 catan, 26S ; Lawrence on Birds new to the Fauna of Guadeloupe, 

 West Indies, 269; Stejneger on preoccupied Generic Names of 

 North American Birds, 269; Ridgway on the Birds of Cozumel 

 Island, Yucatan, 269; Minor Ornithological Publications, 270; 

 Publications Received, 272. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Discovery of the Nest of Larus rossiY in Greenland, 273; A Flock of 

 C/ien r£>5// East of the Rocky Mts., 274; Capture of a Pair of Wild 

 Hybrid Ducks (Mallard -|- Muscovy) on Long Island, 274; Tringa 

 da7nacen$is (Horsf.) in Alaska; a Sandpiper new to the North 

 American Fauna, 275; The Masked Qj.iail (^Colinus ridgway i) in 

 Arizona, 275; Discovery of the Breeding Place of McKay's Snow- 

 flake (yPtectrophenax hyperboreus), 276 ; Immature Dress of Melos- 

 pt'za palustris, 277; Wintering of the White-throated and Ipswich 

 Sparrows in Maine, 277; Junco hyemalis Nesting in a Bush, 277; 

 Peculiar Nest of Ckelidon eryt/irogaster, 278; The Orange- 

 crowned Warbler in Eastern Massachusetts, 27S; Seiurus ludovi- 

 cianus in Maine — A Correction, 278; Changes in the Plumage of 

 ; Geothlyfis tric/tas, 279; A Partial Albino Hermit Thrush {Turdus 

 aonalasckkce pallasii), 281; Another Black Robin, 281; On two 

 Abnormally Colored Specimens of the Bluebird. {Sialis sialis), 

 281 ; Unseasonable Birds on Long Island, 283 ; Two Additions to 

 the Texas Avi-fauna, 284; Some Additions to the Avi-fauna of 

 Colorado, 284. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Revival of the Sexual Passion in Birds in Autumn, 2S6. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Ornithological Explorations, 286; Ornithological Societies, 287; Or- 

 nithological Publications, 2S7 ; The A. O. U. Committee on Bird 

 Protection, 287; The Audubon Society, 288; Publication of the 

 A. O. U. Code and Check-List, 288. 



NUMBER III. 



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Some Birds of Arizona. By Edgar A. Mearns (^Assf. Surg. 



U. S. A.) 289 



