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yj Contents of Volume IX. 



Remarks on a Collfxtiox of Birds made by Wilmot W/ Brown. 

 Jr., OxM Mona and Porto Rico during February and a part 

 OF March, 1S92. "Ay Clmrles B. Cory. . ■ ■ • -228 



List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of San Antonio, Bexar 



County, Texas. Bv //. P. Attwater. . • ,' . ' ' ^^9 



Some Notes concerning the Evening Grosbeak. By Amos W. 

 Butler. . • • ' • • ' ' ^ ' U ' -r, ' 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of San Jose, Costa Rica. By 



George K. Ckerrie. . • • • •. • • • 247 



A Study of the Sparrow Hawks (Subgenus Tinnunculus) of 

 America, with Especial Reference to the Continental 

 Species {Falco sparverius Linn.). By Edgar A. Mearns. . 252 



Description of an Apparently New Centurus from Great 



Bahama Island, Bahamas. By Charles B. Cory. . . .270 



In Cuba with Dr. Gundlach. By C/iarles B. Cory. . . .271 



Observations ON THE Birds OF Jamaica, West Indies. II. A List 

 OF THE Birds recorded from the Island, with Annota- 

 tions. By JV. E. D. Scott. 273 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Salvadori's Catalogue of the Parrots, 277; Mrs. Miller's 'Little 

 Brothers of the Air,' 279; 'Wood Notes Wild,' 280; Oustalet on 

 the Birds of Patagonia, 281 ; Stone on the Crows, Birds of Para- 

 dise, and Orioles in the Museun of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, 282; Stone on Birds collected by the West 

 Greenland Expedition, 282; Minor Ornithological Publications, 

 282; Publications Received, 290. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Migration of Uriitator imber, 292 ; Pelecanus erythrorhynchos in 

 °Maine, 292 ; The Spring Migration of the Scoters in 1892, 292; 

 The Red Phalarope {Crymopkiliis fulicarius) at Nantucket, Mas' 

 sachusetts, 294; Crymophilus fulicarius in Provincetown Harbor, 

 298; Pavoncella pugnaxm North Carolina, 299; Correction, 300; 

 Lagopus lagopus in Maine, 300; Occurrence of the Black Gyr- 

 falcon in Rhode Island, 300; The Carolina Paroquet {Conurus 

 carolinensis) in Missouri, 301 ; Aphelocoma californica in Wash- 

 ington, 301 ; Carduelis elegans in Connecticut, 301 ; Zonotrichta 

 albicollis in California, 302; A.bnormal Plumage of Habia ludovi- 

 ciaiia. 302 ; On the Breeding of Helminthophila pinus with H. 

 leucobronchialis at Englewood, New Jersey, 302; Warblers 

 destroyed bv a 'Norther,' 303; Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis in 

 New fersev, 303; Melanism in a Caged Wood Thrush, 303; 

 Water Birds at Nantucket, Massachusetts, 304; Brief Notes from 

 Long Island, 306; Spring Arrivals at Washington, D. C, 307; 

 Notes on some Birds of Grays Harbor, Washington, 308. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Dr. John Amory Jeffries, 311; Elliot's Monograph of the 

 Piitidae, 312; Dr. Ernst Hartert, 312; Plate of the Rio Grande 

 Tuikey, 312. 



