CONTENTS. 



The BreBdIno Habits o? the Florida Burrowing Owl. {Speotyto cunicularia 



jloridana). By Samuel N. Rhoads i 



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

 corded from the Island, WITH Annotations. By W. E.D.Scott ... 9 



Habits of the Eskimo Curlew (iV»;«ifn/Ks Jisr^rt/Zs) in New England. By George 



H. Machay 16 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of San Jos£, Costa Rica. By George K. Cherrie. zi 



A Further Review of the Avian Fauna of Chester County, South Carolina. By 



Leverett M. Looinis 29 



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



By R. H. Lawrence 39 



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



during July, August, September, and October, 1S91. 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 Orntihologists' 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 aurattts^ ,66; Minor Ornithological Publications, 

 66; Publications Received, 70. 



General Notes. — The Black Tern at Prince Edward Island, 71; Calidris armaria in Massa- 

 chusetts in Winter, 71 ; Late Breeding of Columbigallina passerina, 72; A Belated Migrant, 

 72; jfu7ico hyemalis in Eastern Massachusetts in June, 72; Distribution of the Species of 

 /V«cffia in Cooke County, Texas, 73; Thryothorus ludovicianus in Massachusetts, 73; Notes 

 from Springfield, Massachusetts, 74. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, — August von Pelzeln, 74; Captain Thomas Wright Blakiston, 

 75- 



Supplement. — The Inheritance of Acquired Characters. President's Address. 



By D. G. Elliot 77 



Fourth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of 



North American Birds . . 105 



Lists of Officers and Members OF the A. O. U ix 



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