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North Carolina Mountains in Winter. By Charles F. Bafckel- 



der ............. 307 



List of Birds found in Roane County, Tennessee, during 

 April, 1S84. and March and April, 1885. By William H. Fox, 

 M. D ■ 315 



The Birds of Western Manitoba. By Ernest E. T. Scion. . 320 



On the Glaucous Gull of Bering's .Sea and Contiguous Wa- 

 ters. By Robert Ridg-vay ........ 330 



Description of a New Species of Oyster-Catcher from the 



Galapagos Islands. By Robert Ridgway 331 



Preliminary Descriptions of some New Species of Birds from 

 Southern Mexico, in the collection of the Mexican Geo- 

 graphical AND Exploring Commission. By Robert Ridgivay. 331 



Descriptions of Two New Species of Birds supposed to be 



FROM the Interior of Venezuela. By Robert Ridgivay . . 333 



Description of a New Elf Owl from Socorro Island, Western 



Mexico. By Robert Ridgzvay ....... 333 



Description of .\ New Genus of Oceanitid.e. V>\ Robert Ridgivay. 334 



Description of Four New Species of Birds from the Bahama 



Islands. By Robert Ridgivay ....... 334 



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

 THE Greater and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the Isl- 

 ands OF ToBAGp and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory . . 337 



Description of New Species of Birds from the West Indies. 



By Charles B. Cory 381 



Description of a New Genus of Tyrannid^e from Santo D( - 



MiNGO. By Robert Ridgxvay ........ 382 



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 y. A. Allen 383 



Additional Notes on Peale's Petrel (^^Estrelata gnlaris'). 



By William Brewster 389 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The A. O. U. Cod&i and Check-List of North American Birds, 393; 

 Madarasz's 'Zeitschrift fur Ornithologie,' 39S; Goss's Revised 

 Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas, 399; Capen's 'Oology of New 

 England,' 400; Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 400; Mrs. 

 Miller's 'Bird-Ways,' 400; The 'Water-Birds of North America' — 

 Explanations, 401 ; Dr. Shufeldt on the Osteology of theTrochi- 

 lid;e, Caprimulgidce, and Cypselidae, 404 ; Publications Received, 

 406. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Phivniropicrus ruber "^^^ a South Carolina Bird,4oS; More News of 

 Ardetta neoxcna, 408; Anotlier Specimen oi Ardea vjtierde7natini? 

 408; Early Arrival of a Rare Bird, 408; .^gialitis meloda cir- 



