Con/cnfs of Volume A'//. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Newton's ' Dictionary of Birds,' Part III, 169; Stone's lairds of Eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 170; A Flying Trip to the Tropics, 

 172; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Cranes and Rails, 172; 

 Griindtvig on the Birds of Shiocton, Wisconsin, 173; Bourns and 

 Worcester on the Birds of the Philippine Islands, 173 ; Merriam's 

 Laws of Temperature Control of the l)istril)ution of Land Ani- 

 mals anil Plants, 174: Puhlications Received, 176. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Briinnich's Murre in Oneida Connty, N. Y., 177; Briinnich's Murre 

 {Uria lontvia) in Connecticut, 177; The Pacific Kittiwake at San 

 Diego, California, 177; Terns of Muskeget Islatui. — A Correction, 

 178; Bi'eeding Habits of Terns, 178; Diomedea e^uUini^ on the 

 Columbia in 1S13, 178; The Black-capped Petrel {A^.strelata hax- 

 itata') in Ulster Count\', New York, in Januaiv, 179; The Euro- 

 pean Widgeon ( Anas pe/ielope) in Indiana, 179; Baird's Sandpiper 

 on Long Island Sound, N. Y. , 179; The Golden Eagle in New 

 Jersey, 179; The White Gyrfalcon in New England, 180; the 

 American Barn Ovvl Breeding at Washington, D. C., in Winter, 

 180; The Great Gray and Hawk Owls in St. Lawrence County, 

 N. Y., 181; An Albino Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 181: Clark's 

 Nutcracker, 181 ; The Cowbird Wintering in New Hampshire, 

 182; The Goldfinch (^Carduelis cardtielis) near Boston, Mass., 



152 ; Second Occurrence of Harris's Sparrow {Zonotrichia quer- 

 it/a) in British Columbia, 1S2 ; A Set of I'nspotted Eggs of the 

 Ciiipping Sparrow, 1S2 ; Jiuico hyeinalis shufcldti \x\ Lower Cali- 

 fornia, 183; Mortality among White-bellied Swallows, in Florida, 



153 ; The Rough-winged Swallow {Stelgidoptervx serrifennia^ 

 and Tree Swallows {Tnc/iyciiiefa bicolor) Wintering in South 

 Carolina, 184; A Ground Nest of the Black-throated Green War- 

 bler, 184; Dendroica falmcirum in New Jersey, 185: Breeding of 

 the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Minnesota, 185; The Systematic 

 Name of the Mexican Creeper, 18=;; A New Family of Birds, 186; 

 The Tongues of Birds, 186; Bird' Fatality along Nebraska Rail- 

 roads, 187: Florida Notes, 187; Notes on the Winter Birds of 

 Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 18S: Notes from Southern New Jersey, 

 189; Some Notes from Pennsylvania, 189; Some Uncommon and 

 Rare Birds of Erie County. Ohio, 190; Notes from the Upper 

 Peninsula of Michigan, 191. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



' A Demand for English Names,' 192 ; Cold Storage as an Aid to the 

 Bird Collector, 195; Apparatus for Preparing Birds' Eggs, 196. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary — George N. Lawrence, 198; Dr. Frederick H. Hoadley, 

 199; Delaware Ornithological Club, 200; Announcements, 200. 



