CONTENTS. 



The Spring Plumage of the Bobolink, with Remarks on ' Color-Change' and ' Moult- 

 ing.' By Arthur P. Chadboiinie, M. D. (Plate I«.) 



Remarks on the Spring Plumage of the Bobolink. By Frank M. Cliapman. 



Descriptions of Ten New Species of Birds discovered by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the 

 Kilimanjaro Region of East Africa. By Charles li^. Richmond. 



New Birds from the Islands and Peninsula of Lower California. By A. IV. Anthony. 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of Okanogan County, Washington. By William Leo)i 



Dawson. 



137 

 149 



154 

 164 



168 

 182 



Description of a New Pine Grosbeak from California. By IVilliani W. Price. 



Critical Remarks on Cistothorus palustris (Wils.) and its Western Allies. By Harry 



C.Oberholser 186 



The Unusual Occurrence of Brunnich's Murrk (Uria lomvia) far Inland, with Notes 



ON other Rare Birds. By^^. py. Butler. 197 



Description of a New Species of Guillemot from the Kuril Islands. By Leonliard 



Stejneger 200 



General Notes. — Murres in Western New York, 202 ; Unusual Occurrence of Brunnich's Murre at 

 Beverly, New Jersey, 202; Briinnich's Murre (Uria lomvia) aX Newberne, N. C 202 ; Briinnich's 

 Murre and King Eider at Cape Charles, Virginia, 202; Uria lomvia in South Carolina, 203; The 

 Terns of Dyer's and Weepecket Islands, 203 ; The Nostrils of Young Cormorants, 205 ; The Canvas- 

 back Duck in Massachusetts, 206 ; Type Locality of Fidigula collaris, 206 ; Dafibda, a New Sub- 

 genus, 207 ; The Lesser Snow Goose in New England, 207 ; Brinta bernicla glaucogastra, 207 ; 

 The Wood Ibis in Virginia and Maryland, 20S ; A North American Snipe New to the A. O. U. List, 

 2oq; The Occurrence of Tryngites subrujicollis in the New England States, 209; Status of Helodro- 

 mus ocliropns in the A. O. U. List, 210; Status of the Redshank as a North American Bird, 211; The 

 Avocet {Recicrvirostra a>nericana) at Ipswich, Mass.. 212; The 1896 Migration of Charadrius 

 dominicus and Numenitis borealis in Massachusetts, 212; Validity of the (je.vM'i Lophortyx, ^i^; 

 Notes on the Mexican Ground Dove, 215; Another Golden Eagle in Connecticut, 215 ; 5forthern 

 Hawks in Massachusetts, 216 ; Swainson's Hawk in Michigan, 216 ; Note on Elanns glaucus, zib\ 

 The Roadrunner as a Destroyer of Caterpillars, 217 ; How the Chimney Swift secures Twigs for its 

 Nest, 217; Probable First 'De.scn-piionol Einpidonax Jiaznveiitris, 218; Two New Birds for Maine, 

 219; The Redpoll in Maryland, 219; Bachman's Sparrow in Maryland, 219; The .Seaside .Sparrow, 

 {Amtnodramus maritiinus) at Middletown, R. I., 219; Henslow's Bunting (Atninodramiis /leuslowi) 

 Found Breeding at Plymouth, Michigan, 220 ; Occurrence of Zonotrichia albicollis in California, 221 ; 

 How about the Genus Pipilo novi} 221; The Bahaman Swallow in Florida, 221 ; Geothlypis agilis 

 a Possible Breeder in Northern Minnesota, 222 ; Untenability of the Genus Sylvania Nutt., 223 ; 

 The Carolina Vf xftw {Thryoi horus hidovicinmis) at Inwood-on-Hudson, New York City, 224; The 

 Mockingbird at Portland, Maine, in Wniter, 224 ; Turdus lamrencii Coues, 225 : Some ]>few Records 

 for Central New York, 226 ; Lake Michigan Bird Notes, 227 ; Sundry Notes, 228 ; The most General 

 Fault of the A. O. U. Check-List, 229. 



Recent Literature. — Ridgway's ' Manual of North American Birds,' Second Edition, 232 ; Goode's 

 ' The Published Writings of Philip Lutley Sclater,' 233 ; Newton's 'Dictionary of Birds': Part IV, 

 234 ; Bates's ' The Game Birds of North America,' 244 ; Butler on a Century of Chang es in the 

 Aspects of Nature in Indiana, 245; Elliots' Catalogue of a Collection of Birds from Somali- Land, 

 245; Anderson's Birds of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, 246; Ricker's Notes on the 

 Birds of Hull, Mass., 246; Howe's Birds of Brookline, Mass., 246; Tegetmeier's ' Pheasants,' 246 ; 

 Bird-nesting with a Camera, 247 ; A List of the Birds of Florida, 247 ; Cory's List ot the Birds of 

 Eastern North America, 248 ; Schalow's the Published Writings of Anton Reichenow, 248 ; Publica- 

 tions Received, 248. 

 CoRRESPONDENCe. — Captive Wild Birds, 251 ; A Desirable Substitute for Carbon Disulphide as an Insec- 

 ticide, 251 ; 

 Notes and News. — Obituary: Charles E. Bendire, 353 ; Heinrich Gatke, 254 ; Platte M. Thome, 254 ; 

 New Publications, 255 ; Protection of Birds, 257 ; Errata, 258. 



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