CONTENTS. 



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

 AND Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By 



Charles B. Cory i 



Some Birds of Arizona. '&y Edffar A. Mearns, Axsis't Surg. U. S. A. . . . 60 



List of Birds observed in Sumner and Fall on the Upper Pecos River, New 



Mexico. By //. W. Henshaiv 7,? 



On the Breeding Habits of Some Arizona Birds. Fifth Paper. By W. E. D. Scott Si 



A List of the Birds observed in Ventura County, California. By Barton W. 



Evermann S6 



An Ornithological Reconaissance in Western North Carolina. By William 



Brewster 94 



Additions to the Catalogue of Kansas Birds. By A''. S. Goss 112 



Third Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union 115 



Recent Literature. — Murdnchon the Birds of Point Barrow, Alaska, 122; The 'Water Birds 

 of North America' — A Few Corrections, 124; Stejnesrer's Ornithologfical Explorations in 

 Kaintschatka, 126; Torrey's 'Birds in the Bush,' 129; Holder's Catalogue of the Birds of 

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



General Notes.— The Bridled Tern (Sterna anctthettis) 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 P'alconidK, 13U Capture of the 

 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher {Milvulus forficatus) on the Southeast Coast of Florida, 134; The 

 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher {Milvulus forficatus^ at Key West, 13-I ; The Baltimore Oriole in 

 Massachusetts in November, 135; Icterus galbula in Connecticut in Xoveuiber, 135; The Ver- 

 nacular Name oi Plectrophenax hyferboreus, 135; Ipswich Sparrow in Texas, 135; Occurrence 

 of the Ipswich Sparrow yAiinnoliramus princeps) in Nova Scotia, 135 ; The Lark Finch in 

 New Jersey, 136; The Winter Distribution f>f the Swamp Sparrow and the Yellow-rump, 136; 

 On the Former Breeding- oi Psaltriparus minimus in South Carolina, 137; Helminthophila 

 celata in South Carolina, 13S; Dendroica dominica albilora obtained in Chester County, South 

 Carolina, 139; Additions to the Avifauna of Texas, 139; Birds new to the District of Colum- 

 bia, 139. 



Correspondence. — Turner's List of the Birds of Labrador. 140; Revival of the Sexual Passion 

 in Birds in Autumn, 141. 



Notes and News.— Ornitholog-ists as 'Bird En'-mies,' 143; A. O. U. Committee for tlie Protec- 

 tion of Birds, 143; Nuttall Ornithnlo^ical Club, 143: Obituary— Dr. Samuel Cabot, Mr. John 

 Snowdon Howard, 144; A. O. U. Code and Check-I.ist, 144. 



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