Contents of Volume XIII. v 



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Descriptions of a New Horned Lark and a New Song Spar- 

 row, with Remarks on Sennet t's Nigh thaw k. By Louis B. 

 Bishop. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 29 



An Apparently New Ckordeiles from Costa Rica. By George A". 



Cherrie. ■ ■ ■ ■ . . . . . . . . 135 



Gatke's 'Heligoland.' By J. A. Allen. ...... 137 



A Revision of the North American Horned Owls, with 



Description of a New Subspecies. Bv Witmer Stone. . 153 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The 'Birds' of 'The Royal Natural History," 156; Saunders and Sal- 

 \ in's • Catalogue of the Gavise and Tubinares,' 160; Salvadori's 

 Catalogue of the Chenomorphse, Crypturi, and Ratitse, 162 ; 

 Chapman on Changes of Plumage in the Dunlin and Sanderling, 

 164; Chapman on the Plumage of the Snowrlake, 165; Allen on 

 Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds without 

 Moulting, 166; The Mockingbird and Yucca aloifolia, 167; 

 Loomis on California Water Birds, 16S; Publications Received, 

 169. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Briinnich's Murre at Cape Charles, Virginia, 171 ; The Parasitic Jaeger 

 near Cleveland, Ohio, 171: Puffinus tenuirostris off San Diego, 

 California, 171; The Skull of the Young Cormorant, 172; 

 Clangula hyemalis at San Diego, California, 172; Occurrence 

 of the Great White Heron at Escondido, California, 172; 

 Note on the Flexor kallucfc brevis in the Night Heron 

 {Nycticorax nycticorax naiviiis), 172; Porzana noveboracensis 

 near Ottawa. Canada, 172: Crymopkilus fulicarius in Maine. 

 173; Crex erex in Maine, 173; Baird's Sandpiper in Michi- 

 gan, 174; Western Sandpiper ( Ereunetes occidentalism more abun- 

 dant than the Semipalmated (E. J>nsi//us), 174; Woodpeckers' 

 Tongues — a Plea for Aid, 174; Pinicola enucleator in West- 

 chester County, N. Y., 175 ; The Pine Grosbeak at Poughkeepsie, 

 N. Y., 175 ; The Pine Grosbeak (P. enucleator) in New Jersey, 175 ; 

 Abnormal Plumage of a Pine Grosbeak, 176; The American 

 Crossbill at Sea, 176; Harris's Sparrow in Spring Dress in 

 Autumn, 176; A Brown Thrasher {Harporhynchus rufus) in 

 Massachusetts in winter, 176; A few Notes from Maine. 177; 

 Three Winter Notes from Longwood, Mass.. 178; Bird Notes 

 from Erie County, New York, 17S ; Virginia Notes, 179 ; On Birds 

 reported as rare in Cook County, 111., 179; Additions to the Avi- 

 fauna of Tennessee. 1S1 ; Sundry Notes, 182. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Some Questions of Nomenclature, 183; A Question of Nomenclature. 

 190; ' Ord's Zoology' Again, 192; Chen kyperboreh and C. nivalis. 

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