Contents of Volume XVI. 



Certhia familiaris americana, not Certhia f. fusca ! 185; The 

 Second Reference for Anorthura hiemalis pacifica, 185; Piranga 

 rubra and Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis Preoccupied? 1S5 ; 

 Four Preoccupied Names, 186; New and Rare Birds in Kansas, 

 187; More New Birds for Colorado, 187; Some Additional New 

 Mexican Birds, 188; Notes from Rhode Island, 189; Notes on 

 Long Island Birds, 190; Some Birds of Unusual Occurrence in 

 Orleans County, N. Y., 193; Late Migrants and Stragglers 

 in Eastern Massachusetts, 196; Destruction of Birds by the Great 

 Cold Wave of February 13 and 14, 1899, 197. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Volume XXVI of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 198; 

 Evans's ' Birds,' 203; Von Ihering's Birds of San Paulo, Brazil, 

 203; Dearborn's Birds of Belknap and Merrimac Counties, New 

 Hampshire, 204; Nash's 'The Birds of Ontario in Relation to 

 Agriculture,' 204; Stejneger on the Birds of the Kurile Islands, 

 205; Clark on the Feather Tracts of North American Grouse and 

 Quail, 205; Weed on the Winter Food of the Chickadee, 206; 

 Weed on the Feeding Habits of the Chipping Sparrow, 206; 

 Whitman's ' The Birds of Old English Literature,' 207 ; Publica- 

 tions Received, 207. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 The Spelling of Names, 209; A Protest, 210. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary — Dr. Oliver Marcy, 211 ; Professor Othniel C. Marsh, 211 ; 

 New Ornithological Magazines, 212; Ornithological Societies, 

 214; The Hoopes Collection of Birds, 215; American Society of 

 Bird Restorers, 215; Annual Meeting of the Audubon Society 

 of the State of New York, 216. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 

 Sequence of Plumages; Illustrated by the Myrtle War- 

 bler (Dendroica coronata) and the Yellow-breasted Chat 

 (Icteria virens). By Jonathan Divight, Jr., M.D. (Plate 



III.) 217 



A Family of Nestlings. By D. E. Owen 221 



On Some Genera and Species. By D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E. 226 

 Some Parasites of Birds. By Vernon L. Kellogg, Professor of 



Entomology, Leland Stanford Jr. University .... 232 



