CONTENTS. 



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Notes on the Rirds of the CALoosAiiATCiriE Region of Flohida. Ry JV. E. D. 



Scott 209 



y^V/rt^n/««//«(i Temminck ET AucTOKES. V>y D. G. Elliot 21S 



Habits OF THE Amekican Herking Gull {Lams argentatus smitlisonuDiiis) in New 



England. By George H. Mackay 221 



Kemakks ON a Collection of Bikdsmade hy Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., on Mona 



AND Porto Rico DURING Febrl'arv AND A TAUT OF March, i8g2. By Charles B. 



Cory 22S 



List OF Birds observed in the \^icinitv of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. 



By //. P. Atttvater 229 



Some Notes CONCERNING THE Evening Grosbeak. V.^ Amos W. Butler. . . . 23S 

 A Preliminary List of the Birds of San Jos6, Costa Rica. By George K. 



Cherrie, 



247 



A Study of the Sparrow Hawks (Subgenus Tinnunculus) of America, wnn 

 Especial Reference to the Continental Species {Falco sparverius Linn.). 

 By Edgar A. Afearns 252 



Description of an Apparently New Ceiititrus from Great Bahama Island, 



Bahamas. By Charles B. Cory 270 



In Cuba with Dr. Gundlach. By Charles B. Cory 271 



Observations on the Birds of Jamaica, West Indies. IL A Lis r of the Birds re- 

 corded from the Island, with Annotations. By W. E. D. Scott 273 



Recent Literature. — Salvadoii's Cutalo^jue of the Parrots, 277 ; Mrs. Miller's 'Little Brothers 



^of the Air,' 279; 'Wood Notes Wild,' 2S0; Oustalet on the Birds of Patagonia, 2S1 ; Stone on the 



Crows, Birds of Paradise, and Orioles inthe Museumofthe Philadelphia Academy of Natural 



Sciences, 2S2; Stone on Birds collected by the West Greenland Expedition, 2S2; Minor Or.nith- 



oloJ:ical Publications, 2S2; Publications Received, 290. 



General Notes. — Migration of Urinator imber, 292; Pelecanus erythrorhynchos in Maine, 

 292; The Spring- Migration of the Scoters in 1S92, 292; The Red Phalarope {Crymophilits 

 fulicarins) at Nantucket, Massachusetts, 294; Crymophilusfulicarins in Provincetowii Harbor, 

 29S; Pavoncella pitgnax in North Carolina, 299; Correction, 300; Lagopus lagopus in Maine, 

 300; Occurrence of the Black Gyrfalcon in Rhode Island, 300; The Carolina Paroquet {Conii- 

 rits carol ineiis is) in Missouri, 301 ; Aphelocoma californica in Washington, 301; Carduelis 

 ^/f^.ins in Connecticut, 331; Zonotrichia albicollis u\ California, 302; Abnormal Plumage of 

 J-faHa lndovicia}ia,yi2; On the lircisdin'^ of /Yelminiho/>hila piutis with H. leitcobronchialis 

 at Englewood, New Jersey, 302; Warblers destroyed by a 'Norther,' 303; Seiurns novebora- 

 censis notahilis in New Jersey, 303; Melanism in a Caged Wood Thrush, 303; Water Birds 

 at Nantucket, Mass.ichusetts, 304; Brief Notes from Long Island, 306; Spring Arrivals at 

 Washington, D. C, 307; Notes on some Birds of Grays Harbor, Washington, 308. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Dr. John Ainory Jeffries, 311 ; Elliot's Monograph of the Pit- 

 tidae, 312; Dr. Ernst Hartert, 312; Plate of the Rio Grande Turkey, 312. 



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