CONTEN T S. 



The DitKv oj Plymouth County, Massachusetts. By Herbert K.Job 



John Abbot's Drawings of the Birds of Georgia. By Walter Faxon. 



The Peninsula of Missouri as a Winter Home for Birds. By 0. Il'idmann. . 



The Black-vented Shearwater {Pnjfinus opisthomelas). By A ■ II'. Anthony. 



Recent Observations on Histriouicus histrionicus in Maine. By Arthur H. Norton. 



Some Notes on the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in Confinement. By 



Rttthven Dearie. 



Notes on the Birds of Bermuda. Bv D. Webster Prentiss 



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Recent Literature. — Stone on the Molting of Birds, 240; Stone on Birds collected in North Green- 

 land 243 ; Shalow on a Collection of Birds from West Greenland, 243 ; RotzelFs Birds of Narberth, 

 Pa., and Vicinity, 244; Rhoads's List of Tennessee Birds, 244 ; Short's Birds of Western New York, 

 245 : A List of Nebraska Birds, 245 ; Cory's ' Hunting and Fishing in Florida,' with ' A Key to the 

 Water Birds of the State." 24O: Howe's 'Every Bird,' 247 ; Artistic and Scientific Taxidermy, 247 ; 

 Witchell's ' Evolution of Bird Song,' 249 ; Harvie Brown and Buckley's ' A Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Moray Basin,' 251 : The ' Birds' of the Royal Natural History, 252 ; Publications Received, 253. 



General Notes. — Name of the Large-billed Puffin, 255 ; Record of a Fourth Specimen of the Euro- 

 pean Widgeo:i (An is f>suilope) in Indiana, 255; Recent Occurrence of the Florida Gallinule in 

 Southern Maine, 255: Baird's Sandpiper in Michigan, 255 ; The Belted Piping Plover in Massachu- 

 setts, 256; Discovery of the Eggs of the Belted Piping Plover, 256; Recent Capture of the Golden 

 Eagle near Portland, Maine, 256 ; Golden Eagles in Virginia, 256; Nidirication of the Dusky Horned 

 Owl, 257 ; Four Winter Records of the Short-eared Owl on the Massachusetts Coast, 257; The 

 Roadrunner as a Rat-killer, 257 ; The Red-headed Woodpecker in Eastern Massachusetts, 258 ; 

 Pyrocepkalus rtebineus mexicanais in Los Angeles County, Cal., 258; Intergradation in Song of 

 Sturnella magna and .S\ in. neglecta in Missouri, 258; Pinicola cnucleator at Worcester, Mass., 259; 

 Evening Grosbeak in Southern Wisconsin. 259 ; £ onotr -tenia albicullis and Muiotilta varia at Pasa- 

 dena, Cal., 260: The Wintering of the Towhee at Longwood, Mass., 260; The Nonpariel at Long- 

 wood, Massachusetts, 261: Peculiar Traits of Some Scarlet Tanagers, 261; The Occurrence in 

 Nebraska of Vireo ftavoviridis 263 \ Helminthophila rubricapilla vs. Helminthophila ruficapilla. 

 263; Bachman's Warbler [Helminthophila bacAmani) in Greene County, Arkansas, 264; Second 

 Occurrence of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Maine, 264; Southern California Bird Notes, 265; 

 Merrem's Work, 265.: Mandt's Inaugural Dissertation, 2^6: Correction, 266. 



Notes And News — Obituary. — Dr. Juan Gundlach, 267; Clarence A. Smith, 267; The Palm 

 Beach Museum, 268; 'The Osprey," 2f>S ; 'The Nidiologist," 26S ; U. S. Biological Survey, 268; 

 Elliot's African Expedition, 26S ; Zoological Nomenclature, 269. 



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