CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 



The Breeding Habits of the Florida Burrowing Owl {Speotyto 



cunicttlaria flofidana). 'Qy Saiintel N. R/ioads. . . . i 



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

 OF THE Birds Recorded from the Island, with Annota- 

 tions. By W. E. D. Scotf. . . . • • • -9 



Habits of the Eskimo Curlew (^JVumfu/'us borealis) in New Eng- 

 land. Bv George H. Mackay. ....... 16 



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



George K. Cherrie. . ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ .21 



A Further Review of the Avian Fauna of Chester County, 



South Carolina. By Leverett M. Loomis. . . . .28 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of the Gray's Harbor Region, 



Washington. By R. H. Larvrettce 39 



A List of Birds taken on Maraguana, Watling's Island, and 

 Inagua, Bahamas, during July, August, September and 

 October, 1891. By Charles B. Cory. 48 



Notes on the Range and Habits of the Carolina Parrakeet. 



By Amos W. Butler 49 



Ninth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. . 56 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The New Nuttall, 59; Shufeldt's 'Myology of the Raven,' 62; Bolles's 

 "Land of the Lingering Snow,' 62; Keyser's 'Bird-dom,' 63; 

 Scott B. Wilson's 'Aves Hawaiienses,' 63; MacFarlane's Notes on 

 Arctic Birds, 64; Fannin's 'Check List of British Columbia Birds,' 

 65; Chapman on the -Birds of Corpus Christi,' 65; Chapman 'On 

 the Color Pattern of the Upper Tail-coverts in Colaptes anratiis' 

 66; Minor Ornithological Publications, 66; Publications Re- 

 ceived, 70. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Black Tern at Prince Edward Island, 71 ; Calidris areiiarta in 

 Massachusetts in Winter, 71; Late Breeding of Coltimbigallina 



