Contents, of Volume IX. 



passerina, 72; A Belated Migrant, 72; Jtinco hyemalis in Eastern 

 Massachusetts in June, 72; Distribution of the Species of Peuccea 

 in Cooke Countv, Texas, 73; Thryothorus ludovicianus in Massa- 

 chusetts, 73; Notes from Springfield, Massachusetts, 74. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituarv,— August von Pelzeln, 74; Captain Thomas Wright 

 Bhikiston, 75. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



The Inheritance of AcquiRED Characters. President's Address. 



Bv D. G. Elliot 77 



Fourth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union 



Check-List of North American Birds 105 



NUMBER n. 



Young Sapsuckers IN Captivity. 'Qy Frank Bolles. . . .109 

 Observations on the Birds of Jamaica, West Indies. II. A List 



OF THE Birds recorded from the Island, vs^ith Annotations. 



By IV. E. D. Scott 120 



Summer Birds of the Crest of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies. 



\^yJo7tathnn Dxvight,Jr 129 



A Description of the Adult Male of Botaurus neoxenus (Cory), 



WITH Additional Notes on the Species. By W. E. D. Scott. 141 

 Habits of the Black-bellied Plover {Charadrtus squatarola) in 



Massachusetts. By George H. Mackay 143 



Our Scoters. By G. Trumbull. i53 



Hybridism, and a Description of a Hybrid between Anasboschas 



and A)ia$ americana. By D. G. Elliot. ..... 160 



Description of a New Turkey. By George B. Sennett. . . 167 



The Dwarf Screech Owl {Megascofs famtneolus idahoensis Mer- 



riam). By Dr. C. Hart Merriam. (Plate II.) . . . .169 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Packard's 'The Labrador Coast,' 171 ; Lucas on the Osteology of the 

 ParidK, Sitta, and Chama;a, 172; Lucas on the Structure of the 

 Tongue in Hummingbirds, 172; Lucas on the Bird Skeletons Col- 

 lected by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Albatross,' 172; 

 Cherrie on Costa Rican Birds, 172 ; Shufeldt on the Osteology of 

 Arctic and Sub-Arctic Water Birds, 173: Shufeldt on the O'ste- 

 ology and Classification of the North American Pigeons, Wood- 



