vi Contents of Volume A'A'. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Great Black-backed Gull in Oneida County, N. Y., 303 ; Additional 

 Records of the European Widgeon [Mareca penelofe) in Indiana, 

 303; Hybrid Duck — Mallard (Anas dosc/ias) -{- FinUiil {Dafila 

 acuta), 303; The King Rail in Plymouth County, Mass., 304; 

 Early Record for the Piping Plover {^Egialitis tneloda) in Rhode 

 Island, 305 ; Richardson's Owl [Nyctala tenginalmi richardsoni) 

 in Illinois, 305 ; Nesting of the Red-bellied Woodpecker in Har- 

 ford County, Md., 305 ; A Much Mated House Sparrow, 306 ; The 

 Louisiana Water-Thrush in Minnesota, 307; Lophoplianes vs. 

 Bceolop/ius, 308 : Balancing witli One Wing, 308 ; Ohio Notes, 

 309 ; Louisiana Migration Notes, 309. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Mudge on the Tongue Muscles of Parrots, 310 ; Winkenwerder on the 

 Migration of Birds, 311 ; North American Water-Fowl, 313 ; The 

 'New' Edition of Nuttall, 314; Scott's 'The Story of a Bird 

 Lover,' 315; Mrs. Bignell's 'My Woodland Intimates,' 316; 

 Walter's 'Wild Birds in City Parks,' 316 ; Snow's Catalogue of 

 Kansas Birds, 317; Proceedings of the Nebraska Ornithologists' 

 Union, 317 ; Fisher on the Birds of Keam Canyon, Arizona, 318 ; 

 Stone on a Collection of Birds from Sumatra, 318; McGregor on 

 Birds from Norton Sound, 319; McGregor on Philippine Birds, 

 319; Bangs on New Subspecies of American Birds, 320; Bangs's 

 Revised List of Birds of the Liu Kiu Islands, 320 ; Barrett-Hamil- 

 ton on the Position of the Legs of Birds in Flight, 321 ; Dubois's 

 'Synopsis Avium,' 321; North's Nests and Eggs of Australian 

 Birds, 321; Madarazs's Birds of Hungary, 322; Seth-Smith's 

 Handbook of Parrakeets, 322 ; Shufeldt on the Osteology of the 

 Steganopodes, 323; Shufeldt on the Classification of Certain 

 Groups of Birds, 323; Publications Received, 324. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary: Thomas Edwards Slevin, 326, George H. Ready, 327; 

 Mrs. E. S. Mogridge, 327. New Natural History Journals, 327 ; 

 Meetings of Ornithological Societies, 32S; Birds in the New 

 York Zoological Park, 329 ; Moa's Eggs, 330. 



Twelfth Supplement to the A. O. U. Check-List of North 



American Birds .......... 331 



NUMBER IV. 



Page. 



Further Notes on the Philadelphia Vireo, with Descrip- 

 tion OF the Nest and Eggs. By William Brezvster. (Plate 

 XI.) ." 369 



Anduboniana. By 5. N. Rhoads 37S 



