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Leptotila insularis, 333. 



Lepus arcticus, 186, 190. 

 glacialis, 1S6, 190. 



Limosa fedoa, 215. 



Loomis, Leverett M., notice of his 

 ' California Water Birds, No. II,' 

 168; do., No. Ill, 329. 



Loon, 90. 



Lophodytes cucullatus, 203, 215, 220. 



Loxia Liirviiostra minor, 176, 179. 

 leucoptera, 207, 213. 



Lucas, Frederic A., notice of his 

 'The Weapons and Wings of 

 Birds,' 72 ; the deltoid muscle in 

 the Swifts, 82; the taxonomic 

 value of the tongue in birds, 109; 

 the skull of the young Cormor- 

 ant, 172 ; Notice of his paper on 

 ' Osteological and Pterylographi- 

 cal Characters of the Procnia- 

 tidte,' 334. 



Lydekker, Richard, notice of the 

 'Birds' of the 'Royal Natural 

 History,' edited by, 156, 252. 



Lyttleton, Thomas, Lord Lilford, 

 notice of death of, 348. 



Mackay, George H., the Terns of 

 Muskeget Island, Massachusetts, 

 Part II, 47; 'Gull Dick' again, 

 78; the 1895 migration of Chara- 

 drius dominicus in Massachusetts, 

 80; a correction, 86; Nantucket 

 and Muskeget Island notes, 88; 

 Gatke's Birds of Heligoland, 89; 

 sundry notes. 182 ; 

 Macroptervx, 83. 



coronata, 1 14. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus, 1S0. 



scolopaceus, SS, 180. 

 Magpie, European, 311. 

 Mallard, 200. 

 Mareca americana, 200. 

 Maris, Willard Lorraine, notice of 



death of, 193. 

 Marmon fratercula, 189. 

 Martin, 302. 



House, 324. 

 Purple, 283. 

 Western, 347. 

 Meadowlark, 4, 222, 258, 2S3, 294, 



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Western, 29, 258. 

 Megalestris catarrhactes, 161. 



skua, 161. 

 Megascops asio, 321. 



Melanerpes carolinus, 82, 213, 220. 

 erythrocephalus, 213, 220, 



258, 293. 

 formicivorus bairdii, 85, 117. 

 torquatus, 85. 

 Meleagris gallopavo, 221. 

 Mellisuga coccinea, 266. 

 Melospiza fasciata, 114, 214, 218, 

 242, 2S3, 294. 

 fasciata juddi, 132. 

 fasciata merrilli, 46. 

 georgiana, 114, 218. 

 lincolni, 87, 1 14. 

 Merganetta frcenata, 162. 

 Merganser castor, 164. 

 comatus, 162. 

 merganser, 164, 203. 

 serrator, 203. 

 Merganser, Hooded, 203. 

 Red-breasted, 203. 

 Mergus albellus, 163. 

 merganser, 220. 

 serrator, 215. 

 Merops spiza, 226. 

 Merriam, Florence A., nesting 

 habits of Phainopeplu miens in 

 California, 38; notes on some 

 of the birds of Southern Cali- 

 fornia, 115; notice of her 'How 

 Birds affect the Farm and 

 Gaiden', 337. 

 Merula merula intermedia, 331. 



migratoria, 213, 219, 285, 297. 

 migratoria propinqua, 245. 

 Michigan Ornithological Club, 194. 

 Micropalama himantopus, SS, 1S0. 

 Micropus, S3. 

 Miller, Gerrit S., Jr., description 



of a new Jay from Mexico, 34. 

 Milvulus forficatus, 68, 83. 

 Mimus polvglottos, 213, 239, 344. 

 Mitchell, Walter I., birds killed by 



a storm, 348. 

 Mniotilta varia, 214, 260, 2S3, 295. 

 Mockingbird, 167, 222, 237, 335, 344. 

 Molothrus ater, 71, 212, 283. 

 badius, 72. 

 bonariensis, 71. 

 rufoaxillaris, 72. 

 Montgomery, Thomas H., notice 

 of his paper on migration of 

 birds as a check upon geographi- 

 cal variation, 335. 

 Mormon glacialis, 189. 

 Morris, Robert O., rare visitors to 

 the Connecticut River Valley in 

 Massachusetts in 1895, 86 ; 



