Coiiteuts of Volume XIT. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sharpe and Wjatt's Monograph of the Swallows, 373 ; Ornithology 

 in tiie Standard Dictionary. 375 ; Dwight on the Ipswich Spar- 

 row. 377; Loomis on California Water Birds, 37S ; Ridgway's 

 Ornithology of Illinois, 379; The Food Habits of Woodpeckers, 

 380; IBarrows and Schwarz on the Food of the Common Crow, 

 381 ; Forhnsh on Birds as Protectors of Orchards, 383 ; Merriam 

 on tiie Geographical Distribution of Animalsand Plants in North 

 Ainerica, 3S4; Siichetet on Ilyln-idity in Birds, 384; Chapman's 

 Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America, Second Edition, 

 ■ 38s; Stone on the Name Calliste, 385; Publications Received, 

 385. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Briinnich's Murre in Michigan, 387; Oceatiodroma socorroeiisis off 

 San Diego, Calif., 387; Nesting of the Red breasted Merganser 

 on Saddleback Ledge, Maine, 387; Breeding of Soniciteria 

 (fresaeri near Isle an Hant, Maine, 388; The Scaled Partridge 

 (yCallipepla sqiiamata) in Colorado, 388; The Passenger Pigeon 

 in the Uppei Mississip))i Vallev,3S9; A Large Brood of Osprevs. 

 389; On tlie Correct Snl)S|iecific Names of the Texan and Mexican 

 Scieech Owls, 369; Tlie St. Lucas Flycatchei- in California. 390; 

 Skylarks Nesting on Long Island, 390; The American Cro><sbiil, 

 390; ytiiico p//<eo>io/ns Wagler, not y. citierens (Swainson), 391; 

 Henslow's Sparrow in Indiana. 391 ; The Rough-winged Swallow 

 {S/eli^idopteryx serripeniiis) breeding in North Adams, Berk- 

 shire Co., Mass., 392; Turdits aliriiE bickurlli and Otocoris 

 (ilpesfris praiicola as Summer Residents of Berkshire Countv, 

 Mass. ,392 ; Notes from Western New York, 393; Notes on Some 

 Birds of Northeastern Illinois, 393. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A Relative of Alexander Wilson, 396. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Thirteenth Congress of A. O. U., 397; Professor Dyche's Expedition 

 to Greenland. 397; Diurnal Migration of Birds, 397 ; Sale of a 

 Great Auk's Egg, 397. 



