CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII. 



NUMBER :. 



I'ACE 



A Winter Robin Roost in Missouri, and other Ornitholog- 

 ical Notes. Bv O. Widmann. ....... i 



On the Nesting of Kkider's Hawk {B/cteo borealis krideri) in 



Minnesota. By P- B. Peubody. . . . . . . i\ 



The Nest and Eggs of the Olive Warbler (De/idroicd oh'vdcea). 



By William IV. Price 17 



A Contribution to the Life History of Porzaiia ciiiereiccps 



Lawrence, with Critical Notes on Some of its Allies. 



By Charles ]V. Richmond. ........ 19 



The Terns of Muskeget Island, Massachusetts. I>y deorge 



H. Mackay. ........... 32 



A Swallow Roost at Waterville, Maine. By Abby F C. Bates. 4S 

 A New Species of Thryotliorus from the Pacific Coast. By 



A. W. Atithony -Si 



A New Subspecies of Harportivnchus from Lower California. 



By A. IV. Anthony. ' . ' 5-' 



The LeConte Thrasher i^Harpo) hynchus lecontei). By C. Ilirrt 



Merriam. (Plate L) 54 



Twelfth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



Bv yoh7i H. Saire. 60 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Elliot's Monograph ot" the Pittidie, 65; Two Popular Bird Books, 66; 

 'The Birds About Us,' 67; Chapman's List of the Birds of the 

 Vicinity of New York City, 69; Ridgway on New Birds from the 

 Galapagos Islands, 70; Lucas on the Affinities of the Coerehidse, 

 71; Rhoads's Reprint of Ord's North American Zoology, 72; 

 Reiciienow's Birds of German East Africa, 7:5; Publications 

 Received, 74. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Gull Dick' again, 76; Southern Capture of Larus leticoptcrus, 76; 

 The Emperor Goose in British Columbia, 76; Branta canadensis, 

 77; Cory's Least Bittern in Michigan, 77; The Red Phalarope at 

 Bridgeport, Conn., 77; Numenius hiidsoiiicns, 77; The 1894 Mi- 

 gration of Ckaradritis dominicus in Massachusetts, 78 ; Unsea- 



