CONTENTS. 



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VouNG Sapsuckeks in Captivity. By Frank Bolles 109 



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



CORDED FROM THE ISLAND, WITH ANNOTATIONS. By W. E. D. Scott. . . . 120 



Summer Birds of the Crest of the Pennsylvania Alleghanies. By yonathan 



Divighi, Jr 129 



A Description ok the Adult Male of Botaurns neoxenus (Cory), with Additional 



Notes on the Species. By W. E. D. Scolt 141 



Habits of the Black-beh.ied Plover {Charadrius squatarola) in Massachusetts. 



By George H. Mackay 143 



Our Scoters. By G. Trumbull. . . . .- 153 



Hybridism, and a Description of a Hybrid between Anas hosc/ias and Atuis amer. 



icana. By D. G. Elliot. 160 



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



The Dwarf Screech Owl {Mcgascops fammeolus idahoensis Merriam). By Dr. C. 



Hart Merriam. (Plate 11.) 169 



Recent Literature.— Packard's 'The Labrador Coast', 171; Lucas on the Osteology of the 

 ParidK, Silta, and Chamcea, 172; Lucas on the Structure of the Tongue in Hummingbirds, 

 172; Lucas on the Bird Skeletons Collected by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer 'Alba- 

 tross', 173; Cherrie on Costa Rican Birds, 172; Shufeldt on the Osteology of Arctic and Sub- 

 Arctic Water Birds, 17.5; Shufeldt on the Osteology and Classification of the North American 

 Pigeons, Woodpeckers, and Kites, 174; Ridgway on New or Little-known Central American 

 and South American Birds, 17<) ; Ridgway and Bendire's Directions for Collecting and Prepar- 

 ing Birds and their Eggs and Nests, 175; Stejnegeron a Collection of Birds from Japan, 176; 

 Stejneger on tlie Cubital Coverts in the Birds ot Paradise and Bower Birds, 176; Stone on the 

 Birds of Harvey's Lake, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 176; Allen on the North American 

 Colaples, 177; Chapman on the Origin of the Avifauna of the Bahamas, 179; Chapman on the 

 Grackles of the Subgenus ^uiscalus, 180; Newton on 'Fossil Birds', 1S3; Sclater on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Birds, 1S3; Sclater and Slielley on the Scansores and Coccyges, 1S4; 

 Hartert's Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum ot the Senckenberg Natural History Society, 

 iSs; Leverkiihn's 'Freinde Eier im Nest', 1S5; Jackel's Birds of Bavaria, 1S6; Minor Ornitli- 

 ological Publications, 1S7 ; Publications Received, 196. 



General Notes. — An Egg of the Great Auk, 19S; Wintering of the Canvasback in Arizona, 

 i9S;The Pacific Eider in Kansas, ig'i; Anas carolinensis atid Gallinago delicala in Winter, 

 199; The Migration of Charadrius dominicus in Massachusetts in 1S91, 199; The Golden Eagle 

 in Pennsylvania, 200; The Golden Eagle in Ohio,' 200; Nesting of the Golden Eagle in Ari- 

 zona, 201; Melanerpes carolinus in Madison County, New York, in Winter, 201 ; The Whip- 

 poorwill Wintering near Charleston, South Carolina, 201; The Prairie Horned Lark {Olocoris 

 alpestris praticola) Breeding in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 201 ; The Prairie Horned 

 Lark in Northeastern Pennsylvania, 202; A Correction, 202; Some Bird Notes fnnn Litchfield, 

 Connecticut, 202; Some Birds Recently Added to the Collection of the New York State .Mu- 

 seum, 203; Winter Birds of Cajie May, New Jersey, 203; Notesor. a F'ew Louisiana Birds," 204; 

 An Overlooked Volume, 206. 



Notes and News. — Plate of Dendroica nigrifrons, 207; The Audubon Monument, 207; A New 

 Organization, 207; A New Monograph of the Biids of Paradise, 207; Ornithological -Explora- 

 tions, 20S. 



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