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Bendire's Thrasher. Hy Herbert Brenvn 225 



Birds of the Black Hills. 'By Merritt Cary .231 



Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to John James Audubon. By 



Ruihven Deatie 239 



The Resident Land Birds of Bermuda. By OiUram Bangs and Tlwmas S. Bradlee . . 249 



A New Ground Dove from Western Mexico. By Oiitram Bangs 257 



The Monterey Hermit Thrush. By Joseph Grinnell 25.S 



The Winter Birds of Pea Island, North Carolina. By Louis B. Bishop, M. D. . . 260 



A New Sharp-tailed Finch from North Carolina. By Louis B. Bishop, M. D. . . 269 



General Notes. — Holbcell's Grebe on San Francisco Bay, 270; The Question of the Generic Name 

 Gavia, 270; Occurrence of the Glossy Ibis at Washington, D. C, 271 ; The Red Phalarope {Crymo- 

 philus fulicarius) on the Coast of South Carolina, 271 ; An Additional Note on the Genus i1/«t-ro- 

 rfiamphus, 272: Trifiga solitarius cinnamometcs — A Correction, 272; European Lapwing in the 

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

 Flycatcher in Florida, 273 ; Bachman's Sparrow in Virginia, 273 ; Piranga rubra in Massachusetts, 

 273; Bell's Vireo and the Sandhill Crane in New Hampshire, 274 ; Bachman's Warbler {Helviin- 

 thophila bachiiianii) Rediscovered near Charleston. South Carolina, 274 ; Sprague's Pipit (.4 «///)« 

 spraguei) 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 Massachu- 

 setts, 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; Proceedings of the 

 Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 2S0 : Stejneger on the Wheatear's (Saxicola) Occurring in 

 North America, 280; Bangs on a New Meadowlark from South America, 281 ; Brewster and Bangs 

 on a New Becard from Lower Uruguay, 2S1 ; Shufeldt's ' Osteology of the Herodiones,' 281 ; Chap- 

 man on a New Race of the Great Blue Heron, 282; Grinnell on Two Races of the Red-breasted 

 Sapsucker, 282; Strong's ' Quantitative .Study of Variation in the Smaller North American Shrikes ' 

 283 ; Stone, ' On Moult and Alleged Colour-change in Birds,' 284; Seton-Thompson and Hoffmann s 

 'Bird Portraits,' 284; Gould's 'Louis Agassiz," 285; Ridgway on 'New Birds of the Families 

 Tanagridje and Icterids,' 2S6; Buri on the Anatomy and Relations of the Swifts, 286 ; Herrick's 

 ' The Home Life of Wild Birds,' 287 ; Heck's Living Pictures of the Animal Kingdom,' 287 ; Mrs. 

 Bignell's ' Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny,' 288 ; Publications Received, 289. 



Correspondence.— The So-called Cancelled Fasciculus of Cassin's Illustrations, 291. 



Notes and News. — Obituary: Baron Edmund de Selys Longschamps, 292; Barbara Jordan, 293; 



Memorial to William McGillivray, 293; Announcements of New Publications, 293. 



Tenth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List of North American Birds . . . 295. 



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