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Some Birds OF Arizona. 'By Edcrar A. 3fea7'ns (Asst. Sur^. U. S. A.) .... 2S9 

 North Carolina Mountains in Winter. By Charles F. Balchelder .... 307 

 List of Birds found in Roane County, Tennessee, during April, 1SS4, and March 



and April, 1SS5. By William H. Fox, M. D - . . . 315 



The Birds of Western Manitoba. 'By Ernest E. T. Seion 320 



On the Glaucous Gull of Bering's Sea and Contiguous Waters. By Robert 



Ridgway 330 



Descrii'tion of a New Species of Oyster-Catcher from the Galapagos Islands. 



By Robert Ridgzvay 331 



Preliminary Descriptions of some New Species of Birds from Southern Mexico, 



IN THE Collection OF the Me.xican Geographical and Exploring Commission. 



By Robert Ridgzvay 331 



Descriptions of Two New Species of Birds supposed to be from the Interior of 



Venezuela. By Robert Ridgway 335 



Description of a New Elf Owl from Socorro Island, Western Mexico. By Robert 



Ridgway 333 



Description of a New Genus of Oceanitid.*;. By Robert Rtdgrvay .... 334 

 Description of Four New Species of Birds from the Bahama Islands. By - 



Robert Ridgway . . - 334 



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



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



By Cliarles B. Cory 337 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds from the West Indies. By Cliarles B. Cory 3S1 

 Description of a New Genus of Tyrannid^ from Santo Domingo. By. Robert 



Ridgxvay 382 



On the" Avi-Fauna of Pinal County, with Remarks on Some Birds of Pima and 



Gila Counties, Arizona. Bs W. E. D. Scolt. With Annotations bv y. vl. yl//<'« . 3S3 

 Additional Notes on Pe ale's Petrel {^strelata gnlaris). By William Brewster . 3S9 



Recent Literature 

 Mad 

 Ka 

 400 



401 , - 



Publications Received, 406 



General Notes. — PhiX7iicopterus ruber as a South Carolina Bird,4oS; More News of Ardetta 

 neoxeiia, 40S; Anotlier Sjiecimen oi Ardea wiierdemannif Af&\ Early Arrival ofa Rare Bird, 40S; 

 jE^ialitis ineloda cirnimciiicta on the Coast of South Carolina, 40S; The Snowy Plover on the 

 Salt Plains of the Indian Territory and Kansas, 409; Naturalization of tlie European Goldfinch 

 in New York City and Vicinity, 409; Ammodramits lecontei ncwx Charleston, South Carolina, 

 410; The Cardinal Grosbeak and Tufted Titmouse, breeding in Essex County, New Jersey, 

 410; Virea solitariiis alticola at Charleston, South Carolina, 410; Occurrence of the Prothono- 

 tary Warliler {Protojiotaria ciirea) in Massachusetts, 410; Hehuinthophila leiicobroiichialis 

 in New Jersey, 411; An Interesting Specimen of Helmiiiihophila, 411; Kirtland's Warbler 

 on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, 412; Connecticut Warbler— A Correction, 413; 'Aptoso- 

 Chromatism,' 413. 



Correspondence. — The Classification of the Macrochires, 414. 



Notes and News. — The Second Edition of Dr. Coues's ' Key,' 415; Nehrling's ' Die nordaineri- 

 kanische Vogelwelt; 415; New Oological Works, 4:6; ' Ornis,' 416; Ridtjway Ornithological 

 Club, 416; Check-list numbers; Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, 416. 



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