CONTENTS. 



Summer Birds of Prince Edward Island. By Jonathan Dviight, Jr i 



Notes on certain Washington and British Columbia Birds. By Samuel N. Rhoads. 16 



Observations on the Knot (Tringa canulus) . By George H. Mackay 25 



Summer Birds of Indiana and Clearfield Counties, Pennsylvania. By W. E. 



Clydt Todd. 35 



Description of a New Junco from California. By Levtrett M. Loom is. . -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 Picariae, 66; Cory's 'Catalogue of 

 West Indian Birds,' 69; Dixon's 'The Migration of Birds,' 70; Torrey's ' The Foot-path 

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



General Notes. — Larus argentatus smithsonianus, 76; Branta canadensis, 77; Branta berni- 

 cla,1"j\ Notes on the American Bittern, 77; Tringa alpina on Long Island, New York,7S; 

 The Migration of Numenius borealis in Massachusetts in 1892,79; Charadrius squatarola, 

 79; The Migration of Charadrius dominicus in Massachusetts in 1S92, 79; Black Vulture in 

 M.iine, 82; Some Additional Eastern Records of Swainson's Hawk (Buleo s-wainsoni) ,82; 

 Swainson's Hawk in the East, S3 ; The Nest of Panyptila cayenensis, 84 ; Sharp-tailed Finches 

 of the New Jersey Coast, 85; Capture of the Louisiana Tanager at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 86; Dendroica kirtlandi in Minnesota, 86; Occurrence and Breeding of the Kentucky Warbler 

 in Connecticut, 86; Heleodytes vs. Cantpylorhynthus, S6; Salpinctes obsoletus in Washington 

 and Oregon, 87; The Carolina Wren in the Lower Hudson Valley, 87; Silta canadensis 

 appearing in Numbers in the District of Columbia, SS ; Notes from Connecticut, 89; On the 

 Occurrence of Three Rare Birds on Long Island, New York, 90; Rare Birds near Washing- 

 ton, D. C.,91. 



Correspondence. — A Neglected Branch of Ornithology, 93. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Professor John Strong Newberry, 95; Dr. Philo R. Hoy, 95. 

 A. O. U. By-Laws and Rules, 96; British Ornithologists' Club, 96; A New Journal, 96. 



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