Vol. xir 

 '895 . 



Index. 



409 



Mackay, George H.. tlie Terns of 

 Miiskeget Island, Mass., -^^i; 

 'Gull Dick' again, 76; Branta 

 <anade?isis, 77 ; Niimetiius hiid- 

 sonicus, 77; the 1S94 migration 

 of Ckaradritis domhiicus in Mas- 

 sachusetts, 78 ; Terns of Muskeget 

 Island — a correction, 178; Nan- 

 tucket notes, 310. 



Macroptervgidte, 155, 156. 



Macropterjx coronata, 156. 



Macrorhampus griseus, 313. 

 scolopaceus, 313. 



Magpie, American, 153, 395. 



Mallard, 9, 129, 188, 224, 310, 354. 



Mareca penelope. 326. 



Maris, Willard L., a set of un- 

 spotted eggs of the Chipping 

 Sparrow, 182. 



Martin, House, 324. 

 Purple, 128. 

 Western, 141 . 



Mead, G. S., the Western Meadow- 

 lark at Racine, Wise, 302. 



Meadowlark, 130, 219, 221, 229, 311, 



313- 



Western, 140, 153, 192, 227, 



302. 



Mearns, Edgar A., description of a 



new Heron (Ardea nirescens 



cin/honyi) fro!n the arid region 



of the inteiior of North America, 



257- 

 Megalestris skua, 341, 379. 

 Megascops asio, 88, 214. 



asio cineraceus, 390. 



asio floridanus, 364. 



asio trichopsis, 389, 390. 



brasiliensis, 210. 



giu. 329- 

 Melanerpes carolinus, 313, 365, 380. 



erjthrocephalus, 86, 88, 123, 

 215, 235, 242,262, 365, 380. 



uropjgialis, 138. 

 Melanocorvpha calandra, 334. 



sibirica, 334, 



yeltoniensis, 334. 

 Meleagris gallopavo, 364. 

 Melizophilus undatus, 332. 

 Melopelia leucoptera, 137. 

 Melospiza cinerea, 144, 147, 149, 



391- 

 fasciata, 82, 83, 122, 187, 217, 



236, 242, 365. 

 fasciata rufina, 14S. 

 georgiana. 187, 365. 

 heermanni, 141. 

 insignis, 144, 146, 149, 150. 



Melospiza lincolni, 86, 123, 217. 



melodia, 149, 150. 



melodiah. insignis, 149,150. 



palustris, 122, 236. 

 Merganser americanus, 212. 



serrator, 90, 212, 276, 377, 



387- 

 Merganser. Hooded, 351. 



Red-breasted, 276, 387. 

 Mergellus albellus, 327. 

 Mergus merganser, 327. 



serrator, 327. 

 Merops apiaster, 336. 

 Merriam, C. Hart, the Leconte 

 Thrasher, Harpoihynchus le- 

 cofifei, 54 ; notice of his ' Laws of 

 Temperature Control of the 

 Geographical Distribution of 

 Terrestrial Animals and Plants,' 

 174; notice of his 'The Geo- 

 graphic Distribution of Animals 

 and Plants in North America,' 

 384- 

 Merula merula, 331. 



migratoria, 121,236, 242,303, 



331 ' 366. 

 migratoria propinqua, 219. 

 torquata, 331. 

 Micropalama himantopus, 171, 310, 



312. 

 Micropodidje, 156. 

 Micropus, 187. 



Miller, Gerrit S., Jr., the systematic 

 name of the Mexican Creeper, 

 185. 

 Milvus ater, 329. 



ictinus, 329. 

 Mimus polvglottos, 190, 30S, 309, 



365- 



Minot, H. D., notice of his ' Land- 

 Birds and Game-Birds of New 

 England,' 284. 



Mitchell, Walton, breeding of the 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Minne- 

 sota, 185. 



Mniotilta varia, 123, 235. 241, 365. 



Mockingbird, 84, 190, 308, 309. 



Molothrus ater, 121, 1S2, 215, 236, 

 242, 365. 



Monticola cyanus,33i. 

 saxatilis, 331. 



Montifringilla nivalis, 335. 



Morris, George Spencer, notes and 

 extracts from a letter of Edward 

 Harris, 225. 



Morris, Robert O., bird notes from 

 Springfield, Mass., 86. 



Motacilla alba, 324. 



