vi Co?ife>ifs of Volume XVIII. 



NUMBER III. 



Page. 



Bexdire"s Thrasher. Bv Herbert Bro-v/i. ..... 225 



BiRD.s OF THE Black Hills. By Merriti Gary 231 



Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to JohnJames 



x\uDUBON. By Ruthven Deaiie. 239 



The Resident Land Birds of Bermuda. By Oittram Baiio-s 



and Thomas S. Bradlee. ........ 249 



A New Ground Dove fro.m Western Mexico. By Out raw Ba/ios. 257 



The Monterey Hf.rmit Thrush. By Joseph Griniiell. . . " . 25S 

 The Winter Birds of Pea Island. North Carolina. By Louis 



B. Bishop, M. D 260 



A New Sharp-tailed Finch from North Carolina. By Lonis 



B. Bishop, M. D ' . .269 



GENERAL NOTES. 



HolboeH's Grebe on San Francisco Bay, 270 ; The Qiiestion of the 

 Generic Name Gavia, 270 ; Occurrence of the Glossy Ibis at 

 Washington, D. C, 271 ; The Red Plialarope (Crymophilus fiili- 

 cariiis) on the Coast of South Carolina, 272 ; An Additional Note 

 on the Genus Macrorhamphus, 272 ; Triiiga solitarius ciinia- 

 moineus — A Correction, 272 ; European Lapwing in the Bahamas, 

 272 ; Nesting of the Hairy Woodpecker near Washington, D. C, 

 272 ; The Vermilion Fh'catchei" in Florida, 273 ; Bachman's Spar- 

 row in Virginia, 273 ; Piranga rubra in Massachusetts, 273 ; 

 Bell's Vireo and the Sandhill Crane in New Hampshire, 274 ; 

 Bachman's Warbler {Helminthophila bachiiiairii) Rediscovered 

 near Charleston, South Carolina, 274; Spi-ague"s Pipit {Anthus 

 spragiiei) again on the Coast of South Carolina, 275; The 

 Wheatear Not a Bird of Maine. 275 ; Bird Notes from Pueblo Co., 

 Colorado, 276 ; Corrections to Birds of Parry Sound and Muskoka, 

 276. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Norton on Birds from Labrador, 277; Howe and Allen's Birds of 

 Massachusetts, 27S ; Morris's Birds of Springfield, Mass., and 

 Vicinity, 279; McGregor's ' List of the Land Birds of Santa Cruz 

 County, California,' 279; Torrey's 'Everyday Birds,' 279; Pro- 

 ceedings of the Delaware Vall&y Ornithological Club, 2S0 ; 

 Stejneger on the Wheatear's iSaxicola) Occurring in North 

 America, 2S1 ; Bangs on a New Meadowlark from South America, 

 281 ; Brewster and Bangs on a New Becard from Lower Uruguay, 

 281; Shufeldt's 'Osteology of the Herodiones,' 2S1 ; Chapman 

 on a New Race of the Great Blue Heron. 2S2 ; Giinnell on Two 

 Races of the Red-breasted Sapsucker, 2S2 ; Strong's ' Qiiantita- 

 tive Study of Variation in the Smaller North American Shrikes,' 

 283; Stone 'On Moult and Alleged Colour-change in Birds.' 283; 

 Seton-Thompson and Hoffmann's 'Bird Portraits,' 2S3 ; Gould's 

 ' Louis Agassiz,' 284 ; Ridgway on 'New Birds of the Families 

 Tanagridce and Icterida;,' 285 ; Buri on the Anatomy and Rela- 



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