Contents of Volume XIII. 



Seychelles and other Islands. 331 ; Robinson's Birds of Margarita, 

 532; Cherrie on San Domingo Birds, 333 ; Warren's 'Taxidermy' 

 and Bird-Laws, 334 ; Ridgway and Lucas on a New Family of 

 Birds, ^34 ; Montgomery on Migration as a Check upon Geograph- 

 ical Variation, 335; Contributions to Economic Ornithology, 

 335 ; Publications Received, 338. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Occurrence of the Wood Ibis (Tantalus loculator) in Bristol County, 

 Mass.. 341; Wilson's Snipe in Nova Scotia in Winter, 341 : The 

 Wild Pigeon at Englewood, N. J., 341 ; Recent Record of the Pas- 

 senger Pigeon in Southern Wisconsin. 341 ; The Turkey Vulture 

 in the Catskills, 341 ; Buteo borealis harlani in Minnesota, 342 ; 

 A note on Buteo borealis lucasanus Ridgway, 342 ; Feeding-habits 

 of Purple Finches, 342 ; First Occurrence of the Blue Grosbeak in 

 New Hampshire, 342; Solitary Vireo ( Vireo solitarius) nesting in 

 Connecticut, 343 ; Dendroica palmarum in New York City, 343; 

 Breeding of the Yellow-throated Warbler {Dendroica dominica) in 

 Virginia, near Washington, 343 ; The Louisiana Water Thrush 

 breeding in Berkshire County, Mass., 344; The Mockingbird 

 {Mimus polyglottos) in Canada, 344 ; Thriothorus or Tkryotkorusf 

 ^44; The lludsonian Chickadee breeding in Southern Vermont, 

 34^; The Hudsonian Chickadee {Paries hudsonicus), Red-breasted 

 Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis), and Golden-crowned Kinglet {Peg- 

 ulus tatrapa) in Plymouth County, Mass, in Summer, 340; The 

 Western Martin and the California Cuckoo at Escondido, Cat., 

 347; Bird Notes from Toronto, Canada, 347; Iridescence of 

 Feathers, as explained by an OKI Author, 347; Birds killed by a 

 Storm, 34N. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Lord Lilford, 34S ; Eugene Carleton Thurber, 349; Dr. 

 G.Brown (joode, 349; Bird Day in Schools. 349: Museum of Nat- 

 ural History at Providence, 350 ; 'The Osprey,' 350 ; 'Das Tier- 

 reich.' 350; New Ornithological Publications, 331. 



Index 353 



Errata ............. 366 



Title Pa^e and Contents ......... i-viii 



Officers and Committees of the A. ( ). {'< . . . . . ix 



Members of the A. O. U x 



Plates in Volume XIII. 



Frontispiece. George Newbold Lawrence. 

 I. Ardrtta neoxena Cory. 



II. Florida Burrowing Owl. 



111. Evermann's Ptarmigan {Lagopus evermanni) . 

 IV. 



V. Breeding Cormorants {P/ialacrocorax carbo~). 



