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On the Florida Ground d«l {Speo'yto floridana). By William Palmer. (Flat 

 The Taxonomic Value of the Tongue in Biros. By Frederic A. Lucas. 

 Notbs on Some of the Birds of Southern California. By Florence A. Men 

 The Law which Underlies Protective Coloration. By Abbott H. Thayer. 

 Descriptions ok a New Horned Lark and a New Sunt. Sparrow, with 1 



SENNETT's Niohthaw k. By Louis B. Bishop. ... 



An Apparently New Chordeiles from Costa Rica. By George A*. Cherrie. 



Gatke's 'Heligoland.' By/. A. Allen . . 



\ Revision of the North Ameku \n Horned Owls, with Descriptio 

 m [ES. By U'itmer Stone. ......... 



I'M arks on 



A New Sub- 



109 



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 124 



129 



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Rei.eni Literature. — The 'Birds" of 'The Royal Natural History.' 156; Saunders and Salvia's 

 ■ 1 'atalogue of the < lavia; and Tubinares,' 160 : SalvadorTs Catalogue of the Chenomorphx, Crypturi, 

 and Ratit.r. 162; Chapman on Changes of Plumage in the Dunlin and Sanderling, 164: Chapman 

 on the Plumage of the Snowflake, 165 ; Allen on Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds 

 without Moulting, 166: The Mockingbird ami Yttcca aloi/olia, i6y; Lopmis mi California Water 

 Birds. 168; Publications Received, 169. 



\l Notes. — Brunnich's Marreat Cape Charles, Virginia, 171; The Parasitic Jaeger near Cleve- 

 land, I >hio, 171 : /'uffiuus tcnuirostris. off San Diego, California, 171 ; The Skull of the Young Cor- 

 morant, 172 ; Clang ii'la h venial is at San 1 >iegO, California, 172 ; Occurrence of the Great White Heron 

 at F.scondido, California, 172: Note on the Flexor l/allucis brevis in the Night Heron {Nycticorax 

 nycticorax /uevius), 172: Porzana noveboracensis near Ottawa, Canada, 172: Crymophilus fidi- 

 carius in Maine, 175: Crex crex in .Maine. 17;,; Baird's Sandpiper in Michigan, 174; Western 

 Sandpiper {Ereunetes occidentalis) more abundant than the Semipalmated iF .pusillu .vi, 174; Wood- 

 peckers' Tongues — a Plea for Aid. 174: t'iuicola enucleatpr'xa Westchester County, N. \\, 175: 

 The Fine Grosbeak at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 175; The Fine Grosbeak 1/'. enucleator) in New 

 Jersey. 17;: Vbnorraal Plumage of a Fine Grosbeak, 176; The American Crossbill at Sea, 176: 

 Harris's Sparrow in Spring Dress m Autumn. 176; A Brown Thrasher (Harporhynckits rnfus) in 

 Massachusetts in Winter, 170; A feu 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.. 170: Additions to the Avifauna of Tennessee. 1S1 : Sundry Notes. 182. 



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Some Questions of Nomenclature, 183; A Question of Nomenclature, 190; ' Ord's 



ni2 ; ( hen h 1 105 . 



Notes v.i> N i u- -Obituary, Dr. Willard Lorraine Maris, 193; The Delaware Valley Ornithological 

 Club, 193; The Mi higan Ornithological Club, on: New Edition of Ridgway's ' Manual of North 

 American Birds,' 104: 'The Feather.' 195; The Seebohm collection of Birds, 145: The Field ( oL- 

 umbian Museum Expedition to Africa, 1 16 



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