vi Contents of Volume XVI. 



The Prothonotary or Golden Swamp Warbler {Protonotarta 

 citrea), a Common Summer Resident of Southeastern 

 Minnesota. By Thomas S. Roberts, M.D. (With Photo- 

 graphs from Nature by the Author.) 236 



Notes on Some of the Birds of Eastern North Carolina. 



By 7". Gilbert Pearson 246 



Some Winter Birds of Nova Scotia. By C. H. Morrell . . 250 



New Species, etc., of American Birds. — IV. Fringillid^e (con- 

 cluded) ; Corvid^; (part). By Robert Ridgway. . . .254 



Description of a New Geoihlypsis. By Harry C. Oberholser . 256 



The Terns of Muskeget and Penikese Islands, Massachu- 

 setts. By George H. Mackay 259 



The Sparrows of Mississippi. By Andrew Allison . . . 266 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Record of a Fifth Specimen of the European Widgeon {Anas pe?ie- 

 lope) in Indiana, 270; The Scarlet Ibis {Guara rubra) in Ari- 

 zona, 270; Notes on the Breeding of the Wilson's Snipe {Galli- 

 nago delicata) in Illinois and Indiana, 270; Columba corensis at 

 Key West, Florida, 272 ; The California Vulture in Arizona, 

 272; Melanerpes erythrocephalus Wintering in Chicago, 272 ; 

 A Bahama Bird {Centurus nyeanus) Apparently Extinct, 273; 

 The Chuck-will's-widow on Shipboard, 273; Pinicola enucleator 

 canadensis and Tryngites subruficollis in Illinois, 276; Ammo- 

 dramus nelsoni in Iowa, 276; Nelson's Sparrow (Ammodramus 

 nelsoni) at Toronto, Ontario, 277; Capture of the Black Seaside 

 Finch {Ammodramus nigrescens) in 1889, 277 ; Song Season of 

 the Cardinal {Cardinalis cardinalis), 278; Piranga rubra not 

 Preoccupied, 278; Clivicola versus Riparia, 281 ; Nest of the 

 Long-billed Marsh Wren Lined with a Snake Skin, 281; The 

 Short-billed Marsh Wren {Cistothorus stellaris) in Maine, 181; 

 A Provident Nuthatch, 283; The Carolina Wren Breeding in 

 Rhode Island, 284; Food of the Robin, 284; A Rare Bird for 

 Southern Ohio, 284; Some Rare Occurrences in Yates County, 

 N. Y., 284; Family and Subfamily Names Based on Subgenera, 

 285; 'Revival of the Sexual Passion in Autumn,' 286; Emigra- 

 tion accidentelle d'oiseaux, 287. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Elliot's Wild Fowl of North America, 288; Thompson's 'Wild Ani- 

 mals I Have Known,' 289 ; Stone on Types of Birds in the Collec- 

 tion of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 290; 

 New North American Birds, 291 ; Bangs on Subspecies of Mana- 

 cus manacus, 292; Schalow on Birds from Chili, Patagonia, 

 Tierre del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, 292; Salvadorri and 

 Festa on the Birds of Darien, 292; Harvie-Brown's Color Code, 

 293; Howe's 'On the Bird's Highway,' 293 ; Economic Relations 

 of Birds to Agriculture, 294; Nelson on the Birds of the Ties 

 Marias, 296; Nelson on New Birds from Northwestern Mexico, 

 296; Genera and Subgenera of the A. O. U. Check-List, 297; 

 Publications Received, 297. 



