Contents of Volume XVI. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Torrey's "A World of Green Hills, '86; Mrs. Maynard's Birds of 



Washington, S7 ; Blanchan's ' Birds that Hunt and are Hunted,' 

 88; Huntington's ' In Brush, Sedge, and Stubble,' 89; Oberhol- 

 ser on the Wrens of the Genus Tkryomanes, 89; Bangs on Birds 

 from Colombia, 90; Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of 

 Science, 91 ; Recent Papers on the Great Auk, 91 ; Stickney and 

 Hoffmann's ' Bird World,' 92 ; Publications Received, 92. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



A New Ornithological Journal, 94; 'The Osprey,' 95; Editorial 

 Notice, 95 ; New York Zoological Park, 96. 



Ninth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List of North Amer- 

 ican Birds, 97. 



NUMBER IT. 



The Hummingbirds of the Santa Marta Region of Colombia. 



By Out ram Bangs. (Plate II.) 135 



The Nocturnal Flight of Migrating Birds. By O. G. Libbv. 140 



A Historical Notice of Ross's Rosy Gull (Iihodostethia rosea). 



By John Murdoch 145 



Nesting of the Hermit Warbler in the Sierra Nevada 



Mountains, California. By Chester Barlozv . . .156 



Some Observations on the Anatid^e of North Dakota. By 



Rev. Herbert K. Job '.161 



Some Philadelphia Ornithological Collections and Col- 

 lectors, 1784-1S50. By Witmer Stone 166 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Thalassidroma castro of Harcourt, 177 ; Pelecanus occideutalis vs. 

 P. fttscus, 178; Old Squaw (Clangula hyemalis) in Indiana, 178; 

 White-winged Scoter (Oidemia deglandi), 179 ; Galltnago major 

 vs. Galltnago media, 179; Sexual Difference in Size of the Pec- 

 toral Sandpiper (Tringa maculata), 179; The 189S Migration of 

 the Golden Plover {Charadrius dominicus) and Eskimo Curlew 

 (Numenius borealcs) in Massachusetts, 180; Hybrid Grouse, 

 180; The Number of Rectrices in Grouse, 181 ; The Turkey Vul- 

 ture {Cathartes aura) in Somerville, Mass., 181; The Black 

 Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus obsoletus) in Maine, 182 ; The Specific 

 Name of Falco regulus, 182; Habits of the Blue Jay (Cyanocitta 

 cristata), 1S2 ; An Unusual Set of Song Sparrow's Eggs, 182; 

 The Names of the Song Sparrows, 182 ; On the Name Xenocichla. 

 183; Barn Swallows (Hirundo erythrogaster), 184; Another 

 Example of Curious Nesting of the American Redstart, 1S4; 



