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Index. 



TAuk 

 LOct. 



Milvulus tyi'annus, 365. 

 IVLimus gilvus, 363. 



polvglottos, 100, 224, 324. 

 Minus carolinensis grisifrons, 133. 

 Mionectes oleagineus, 365. 



olivaceus, 365. 

 Mockingbird, 100, 224, 319, 324. 

 Molothrus ater, 177. 

 Momotus mexicanus saturatus, 49. 



swainsoni, 362. 

 Mormon glacialis, 124. 

 Morris, Robert O., unusual visits 

 of birds in Western Massachu- 

 setts in 1896, 100. 

 Morse, Albert Pitts, notice of his 

 List of the Birds of Welleslej, 

 Mass., 335. 

 Motacilla rubiginosa, 76, 123. 

 Motmot, Coast, 49. 

 Murre, Briinnich's, 100, 197, 202, 



203, 226, 228, 312, 410. 

 Mjiadestes obscurus, 334. 



townsendi, 180. 



unicolor, 334. 

 M^'iarchus cinerascens, 92. 



mexicanus, 92, 127. 



tuberculifer, 365. 



tyrannulus, 365. 

 Myiobius ntevius, 365. 

 Myiodioctes, 224. 

 Myiodynastes audax, 365. 

 Myiozetetes cayennensis, 365. 



texensis, 365. 

 Myrmeciza longipes albiventris, 

 362, 365. 



Nanochordeiles, 419. 



Nehrling, Henry, notice of Vol. 

 II of his ' Our Native Birds of 

 Song and Beaut}',' 335. 



Nelson, E. W., preliminary descrip- 

 tions of new birds from Mexico 

 and Guatemala in the collection 

 of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, 42-76. 



Neomorphinte, 91. 



Newton, Alfred, notice of his ' Dic- 

 tionary of Birds,' Part IV, 234. 



Newton, Sir Edward, obituary of ,431. 



Nicholas, Howard Gardner, obi- 

 tuary of, 115. 



Nighthawk, Sennett's, 121. 

 Western, 175. 



Norton, Arthur H., a noteworthy 

 plumage observed in the Ameri- 

 can Eider Drake {Somateria dres- 



seri), 303 ; notice of his pape 

 the Sharp-tailed Sparrows 

 Maine, 334. 

 Nucifraga columbiana, 177, 276, 

 Numenius borealis, 212, 289. 



hudsonicus, 213, 214, 289, 



longirostris, 172, 199, 



251. 

 Nutcracker, Clarke's, 177, 276. 

 Nuthatch, Pygmy, 180. 



Red-breasted, iSo, 324. 



Slender-billed, 180. 

 Nyctala acadica, 353. 



tengmalmi richardsoni, 3 

 Nyctea nyctea, 89, 353. 

 Nycticorax nycticorax n?evius, 

 Nj'ctidromus albicollis, 366. 

 Nyroca, 133. 



r on 

 of 



357- 

 2 88, 



53- 



227. 



Oberholser, Harry C., description 

 of a new subspecies of Deiidroica, 

 76-80; notice of his List of Birds 

 of Waj'ne Co., Ohio, 112; critical 

 remarks on Cistothorus palustris 

 (Wils.) and its allies, 186-196; 

 description of a new Empido7iax, 

 with notes on Empidojiax diffi- 

 cilis, 300-303; critical notes on 

 the genus Atiriparus, 390-394. 

 Oceanitin?e, 315. 



Oceanodroma cryptoleucura, 297, 

 298, 415.' 

 leucorhoa, 297, 415. 

 socorroensis, 117. 

 Odontophorus meleagris, 48. 

 Oidemia americana, 125, 228. 

 carbo, 135. 

 deglandi, 172, 228. 

 perspicillata, 22S. 

 Oie blanche, 287. 

 bleu, 287. 

 caille, 2S7. 

 Olor buccinator, 287. 



columbianus, 287. 

 sp..?35i. 

 Onychoprion, 314. 

 Oreospiza, 129, 232. 

 chlorura, 129. 

 Oriole, Bullock's, 177. 

 Ornithion pusillum, 365. 

 Ortolan, 287. 

 Osprey, American, 174. 

 Ostinops decumanus, 364. 

 Otocoris alpestris, 371, 373. 

 alpestris hoyti, 133. 

 alpestris leucolaema, 176, 356. 



