CONTENTS OF VOLUME X. 



NUMBER I. 



PAGE 



Summer Birds of Prince Edward Island. By Jonathan Divigkt, 



J>- i 



Notes on certain Washington and British Columbia Birds. 



By Samuel N. Rhoads. 16 



Observations on the Knot (Tringa canutus). By George II. 



Mackay ' 25 



Summer Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Penn- 

 sylvania. By IV. E. Clyde Todd. ...... 35 



Description of a NewJunco from California. By Leverett M. 



Loomis. ............ 47 



Additions to the List of Manitoban Birds. By Ernest E. 



Thompson. ........... 49 



On the Genus Pitta Vieillot. By D. G Elliot 51 



The Nesting of the Black Duck on Plum Island. By Charles 



Slover Allen -53 



Fifth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union 



Check-List of North American Birds *. 59 



Tenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union. . 63 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The British Museum Catalogue of the Picarite, 66; Cory's 'Cata- 

 logue of West Indian Birds,' 69; Dixon's 'The Migration of 

 Birds,' 70; Torre v's 'The Foot-path Way,' 74; Ornithological 

 Report of the Canadian Institute, 74 ; Publications Received, 75. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Larus argentatus sniithsonianus, 76; Branta canadensis, 77 ; Branta 

 bemicla, 77; Notes on the American Bittern, 77; Tringa alpina 

 on Long Island, New York, 78; The Migration of Ntimenius 

 borealis in Massachusetts in 1S92, 79; Charadriits squatarola, 79; 

 The Migration of Charadriusdominicus in Massachusetts in 1892, 

 79; Black Vulture in Maine, S2 ; Some Additional Eastern 

 Records of Swainson's Hawk (B/iteo swainsoni) , 82; Swainson's 

 Hawk in the East, 83; The Nest of Panyptila cayenensis, 84; 

 Sharp-tailed Finches of the New Jersey Coast, 85 ; Capture of 



