CONTENTS. 



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Sequence of Plumages; Illustrated bv the Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata) and 



the Yellow-breasted Chat \Icteria virens). By Jonathan Dwight,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 326 



Some Parasites of Birds. By Vernon L. Kellogg; Professor of Entomology, Leland Stan- 

 ford Jr. University 232 



The Prothonotary or Golden Swamp Warbler {Protonotaria 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/. Gilbert Pearson. . 246 



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



New Species, etc., of American Birds.— IV. Fringillid.*: (concluded); Corvid^e (part). 



By Robert Ridgway 254 



Description of a New Geothlypis. By Harry C. Oberhoher 256 



The Terns of Muskeget and Penikese Islands, Massachusetts. 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 penelope) in Indiana, 

 270; The Scarlet Ibis (Guara rubra) in Arizona, 270; Notes on the Breeding of the Wilson's 

 Snipe (Gallinago delkata ) in Illinois and Indiana, 270 ; Columba eorensis at Key West, Florida, 272 ; 

 The California Vulture in Arizona, 272; Melanerpes erythrocephahts Wintering in Chicago, 272; A 

 Bahama Bird (Centurus nyeanus) Apparently Extinct, 273 ; The Chuck-will's-widow on Shipboard, 

 273; Pinicola euudeator canadensis and Tryngites subruficollis in Illinois, 276 ; A mmodramus nel- 

 son} in Iowa, 276; Nelson's Sparrow (Ammodramns nehoni) at Toronto, Ontario, 277; Capture of 

 the Black Seaside Finch (A mmodramus nigrescens) in 1S89, 277; Song Season of the Cardinal 

 (Cardinalis cardinalis), 278; Piranga rubra not Preoccupied, 278 ; Clivicola versus R i/>aria, 281 ; 

 Nest of the Long-billed Marsh Wren Lined with a Snake Skin, 2S1 ; The Short-billed Marsh Wren 

 (Cistothorus stellaris) in Maine, 2S1 ; A Provident Nuthatch, 283 ; The Carolina Wren Breeding in 

 Rhode Island, 2S4 : Food of the Robin, 284 ; A Rare Bird for Southern Ohio, 284 ; Some Rare Oc- 

 currences in Yates County, N. Y., 2S4 ; Family and Subfamily Names Based on Subgenera, 285; 

 ' Revival of the Sexual Passion in Autumn,' 2S6 ; Emigration accidentelle d'oiseaux, 287. 



Recent Literature. — Elliot's Wild Fowl of North America, 288 ; Thompson's ' Wild Animals I 

 Have Known," 2S9; Stone on Types of Birds in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, 290 ; New North American Birds, 291 ; Bangs on Subspecies of Manacus manacus, 292 ; 

 Schalow on Birds from Chili, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands, 292 ; Salvadori 

 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 Tres 

 Marias, 296; Nelson on New Birds from Northwestern Mexico, 296; Genera and Subgenera of the 

 A. O. U. Check-List, 297; Publications Received, 297. 



Correspondence. — The Spelling of Names, 300. 



Notes and News. — Joseph Wolf, 301; The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 301; George K. Cherrie's 

 Venezuelan Expedition. 302 ; Nebraska Ornithological Club, 303 ; Ornithological Publications, 303 ; 

 ' Hints to Young Bird Students,' 303 ; A Sophism, 304; Erratum, 304. 



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