Contents of Volume IX. 



peckers, and Kites, 174; Ridgwav on New or Little-known Central 

 American and Soutii American Birds, 174; Ridgway and Bendire's 

 Directions for Collecting and Preparing Birds and their Eggs and 

 Nests. I7i; Stejneger on a Collection of Birds from Japan, 176; 

 Stejneger on tlie Cubital Coverts in the Birds of Paradise and 

 Bower^Birds, 176; Stone on the Birds of Harvej's Lake, Luzerne 

 Conntv, Pennsylvania, 176; Allen on the North American 

 Colaptes. 177; Chapman on the Origin of the Avifauna of the 

 Bahamas, 179; Chapman on the Crackles of the Subgenus ^ins- 

 ralii<^, 180; Newton on 'Fossil Birds,' 183; Sclater on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Birds, 1S3; Sclater and Shelley on the 

 Scansores and Coccyges, 1S4; Hartert's Catalogue of the Birds_^in 

 the Museum of the" Senckenberg Natural History Society, 18=;; 

 Leverkiihn's 'Fremde Eier im Nest,' 185; Jtickel's Birds of Ba- 

 varia. 186: Minor Ornithological Publications, 187; Publications 

 Received, 196. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



An E"^ of the Great Auk, 198: Wintering of the Canvasback in Ari- 

 zona i9S;The Pacific Eider in Kansas, 198; Anas carolinensis 

 ^nA'Galli>ia"-o delicata in Winter, 199; The Migration of Chara- 

 driu^ domiiiicus in Massachusetts in 1891, 199; The Golden Eagle 

 in Pennsylvania, 200; The Golden Eagle in Ohio, 200; Nesting 

 of the Golden Eagle in Arizona, 201 ; Melatierpes carolinus in 

 Madison County, New York, in Winter, 201 ; The Whippoorwill 

 Wintering- near Charleston, South Carolina, 201; The Prairie 

 Horned Lark {Otocoris alpestris praticola) Breeding in New 

 Hampshire and Massachusetts, 201 ; The Prairie Horned Lark in 

 Northeastern Pennsylvania, 202; A Correction, 202; Some Bird 

 Notes from Litchfield, Connecticut, 202; Some Birds Recently 

 Added to the Collection of the New York State Museum, 203; 

 Winter Birds of Cape Mav, New Jersey, 203; Notes on a Few 

 Louisiana Birds, 204; An Overlooked Volume, 206. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Plate of Dendroica nigrifrofis, 207; The Audubon Monument, 207 : 

 A New Organization, 207; A New Monograph of the Birds of 

 Paradise, 207; Ornithological Explorations, 208. 



NUMBER Til. 



Notes on the Birds of the Caloosahatchie Region of Florida. 



^y W. E. D. Scott • ^- „.• • • l^% 



P/V/rt VrrtWrtZ/Wrt TeMMINCK ET AUCTORES. By D. Cr. Ji,lliot. . • ^^^ 



Habits of the American Herring Gull {Lartts argentatus smitli- 



soniaiiHs) in New Engl\nd. By George H. Mackay. . -221 



