Confrtifs of Volume Vll. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sclater's Catalogue of the Tracheophonae, 379; Allen on Birds from 

 Qmto, 380; Allen on Birds collected in Bolivia, 381; Allen on 

 the Genus Cyclor/tis, 3S2 ; Allen's Descriptions of New South 

 American Birds, 384 ; Allen on Individual and Seasonal Vari- 

 ation in the Genus Elainea, 385: Allen on the Maximilian Types 

 dI South American Birds, 386; Dionne's Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Quebec, 387; Proceedings of the Linnsean Society, 387; Minor 

 Ornithological Publications, 3S8; Publications Received, 39S. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Little Black Rail (Porzai/a famaicensis) at Key West, Florida, 

 400; The Dowitcher at Ottawa, 400; The American Barn. Owl 

 near Troy, New York, 400; S/rix pratincola in Western New 

 York, 400; A Correction, 400; Breeding of the Pileated Wood- 

 pecker in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 400 ; Melatierpes auri- 

 frons in Young Co., Texas, in 1S7S, 401 ; Notes on Eugenes ////- 

 gens, 402; The Philadelphia Yireo in Vermont, 403 ; Spotted Eggs 

 of Swainson's Warbler, 403; Helminthophila chrysoptera in 

 Manitoba, 404: Was he a Philanthropist? 404; Capture of a Sec- 

 ond Specimen of the Hooded Warbler in Massachusetts, 407; 

 Interesting Nesting Site of a Winter Wren {Troglodytes hiema- 

 //>■). 407; The Mudsonian Chickadee {Partis fiudsom'cHs) in Ver- 

 mont and Massachusetts. 407 : ( Myadestes towuseudii in Nebraska. 

 408; The Long-billed Marsh Wren, Maryland Yellowthroat, Nash- 

 ville Warbler, and Great blue Heron in Eastern Massachusetts 

 in Winter, 40S: Two Notes from South Carolina. ~|in 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A Query in regard to the Least Tern, 410. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, William Kitchen Parker. 411; Eighth Congress of the A. 

 O. U.. 41-; Second International Ornithological Congress, 412; 

 Sparrow Legislation, 413: New Books, 414; Work of the Division 

 of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy. 41-); Mr. Jonathan 

 Dwight, Jr., 414. 



