CONTENTS. 



The Geogkaphical Okigin and Distribution of North American Birds, con- 

 sidered in relation to Faunal Areas of North America. By J. A. Allen. 



(With Plates III and IV.) 97 



Notes on the Plumage of some Birds from Upper South Carolina. By Leverett 



M. Loomis. 151 



Further Notes on the Evening Grosbeak. By Amos W. Butler. .... 155 



The Chionidid^e. By R. W. Shnfeldt 15s 



Our Scoters. By G. Trumbull. (With Plate V.) 165 



Observations on the Birds of Jamaica, West Indies. II. A List of the Birds 



recorded from the Island, with Annotations. By W. E. D. Scott. . . 177 



Supplementary Remarks on the Genus Pitta. By L. Stejneger. . . . . 1S1 



Vieillot's 'Analyse' and Buffon's 'Breve.' By D. G. Elliot. .... 184 



Recent Literature — Keeler on the 'Evolution of the Colors of North American Land Birds,' 

 1S9; Beddard's 'Animal Coloration,' 195; Our Hawks and Owls in their Relation to Agri- 

 culture, 199; Bolles's 'Chronicles,' 201; Foster's Bibliography of the Ornithological Writings 

 of George X. Lawrence, 202; Publications Received, 203. 



General Notes. — Alle alle in Virginia, 204; The American Woodcock (Pkilokela minor) in 

 G eat Numbers at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 204; Gambel's Partridge at San Bernar- 

 dino, California, 204; Antroslomus vociferus in South Carolina in Winter, 205 ; The Horned 

 Lark {Otocoris alpestris) near Charleston, South Carolina, 205; Acanthis linaria in Alabama, 

 205; The Field Sparrow Wintering in Massachusetts, 205 ; Junco ridgwayi in Colorado, 205 ; 

 Unusual Habits of Lincoln's Sparrow, 206; Wintering of Regulus calendula at Washington, 

 D. C, 206; Notes on Some Connecticut Birds, 206; Winter Birds in Connecticut, 207; Notes on 

 Helminthophila c/irysoptera, pinus, leucohronchialis, and lawreticei in Connecticut, 20S; Cor- 

 rection, 209; The Occurrence in Summer of Certain Warblers at Beaver, Pennsylvania, 209. 



Correspondence. — "A Neglected Branch of Ornithology," 210. 



Notes and News. — The Audubon Monument, 211; Captain Bendire's Work, 211; Pterylog- 

 raphy of the Gallinae, 211 ; Mr. Chapman in Trinidad, 211 ; A New Edition of 'Lewis and 

 Clarke,' 212; 'The Birds of Montreal,' 212; A. O. U. Membership Lists, 212. 



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