Contents of Volume XIII. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Do Young Loons eat Fresh-water Clams? 77: 'Gull Dick' Again. 78; 

 An Early Description of Pkalacrocorax dilophus, 78; Another 

 Harlequin Duck Record for Long Island, 7S : Olor buccina- 

 tor in Western .Minnesota. 78; White-faced Glossy Ibis Breed- 

 ing in Minnesota. 79; Ardetta neoxena from Wisconsin, 79; 

 The King Rail Again in Maine, 79 ; Band's Sandpiper in 

 Maine. 80; The 1S95 Migration of Charadrius dominie.us in 

 Massachusetts, 80 ; Habits of the Valley Partridge, Si ; Additional 

 Records of the Passenger Pigeon (Er/ofisfes migratorius) in 

 Wisconsin and Illinois, Si; The Golden Eagle in New Jersey, 

 Si; The Golden Eagle in Maine, 82; A New Long Island, N. Y., 

 Record for the Red-bellied Woodpecker, 82 ; The Deltoid Muscle 

 in the Swifts, 82 ; The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Virginia and 

 Maryland, 83; The Raven in Illinois, 83; The Ipswich Spar- 

 row, — A Correction, S4 ; Second Occurrence of the Lark Spar- 

 row in Virginia, S4 ; The Cape May Warbler (Daidroica 

 tigrina) in the Maritime Portions of South Carolina, S4 ; 

 The Carolina Wren in Connecticut, S4 ; The Red-breasted 

 Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis} on Long Island. South Carolina, 

 84 ; The Dwarf Thrush in Colorada, 85 : Food of Woodpeck- 

 ers and Flycatchers, 85; Rare Visitors to the Connecticut 

 River > Valley in Massachusetts in 1895, 86; A correction. 

 86; Notes on Long Island Birds, 87 ; Nantucket Island Notes, 88 ; 

 Gatke's Birds of Heligoland, 89. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Soaring of Birds and Currents of Air, 92. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Thomas Henry Huxley. 93; Henry Seebohm, 96; 

 Henry T. Wharton, 97; Ornithological Lectures at Columbia 

 College, 97; Kent Ornithological Club, 98; Protection of 

 North American Birds, 98. 



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Ox the Florida Ground Owl (Speotyto Jioridand). By William 



Palmer. Plate II. ) . . . . . . . '. , . <,(, 



The Taxonomic Value of the Tongue in Birds. By Frederic A. 



Lucas ...... 106 



Noils on SOME OF THE BlRDS OF Sol I ill.KN CALIFORNIA. Mv 



Florence .1. Merriam . . . . . . . . . 11c 



Tin Law which Underlies Protective Coloration. By Abbott 



II. Tha \rer. .... , i , 



