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tabilis) at Erie, Pennsylvania, SS; The Little Brown Crane {Grus 

 canadensis) in Rhode Island, Sy; Baird's Sandpiper at New Haven, 

 Connecticut, 89; Callipepla squamata in Northeastern New- 

 Mexico, So, ; The Key West Quail- Dove (Geotrygon martinica') 

 at Key West, 90; Buteo brachyurus and B. fuliginosus, 90; New 

 York City Owls, 90; Megascops asio maxwellice, 91 ; The Ameri- 

 can Hawk Owl near Washington, D. C., 91 ; Note on Cyanocitta 

 stelleri litoralis Maynard, 91 ; Capture of a Canada Jay {Feri- 

 soreus canadensis) near Cambridge, Massachusetts, 91 ; A Second 

 Nest and Eggs of Picicorvus columbianus taken in Colorado, 92 ; 

 Bullock's Oriole in Maine, 92 ; Notes upon Coccothraustes ves- 

 pertina as a Cagebird, 93; Intergradation between Zonotrichia 

 leucophrys and Z. intermedia^ and between the latter and Z. 

 gambeli, 96; Mortality among Bank Swallows. 96; Capture of a 

 Specimen of the Orange-crowned Warbler {Helmintkophila (da- 

 ta) in the vicinity of Washington, D. C.,96; A Curious Speci- 

 men of the Yellow-throated Warbler (Deudroica dominica),cfj ; 

 The Nest and Eggs of Regulus calendula, 97 ; Myadestes town- 

 sendii Wintering in Montana, 98. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, John G. Bell, 9S ; Specimens Exhibited at the A. O. U. 

 Congress. 99; Photographs of Birds, 99; Dr. E. A. Mearns's 

 Collections, 100; Ornithologists at the American Museum, 100; 

 The Late Mr. Snowdon Howland's Collection of Eggs. 100; 

 Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds,' 100. 



NUMBER II. 



Barred Owls in Captivity. By Frank Bolles .... 101 



A Summary of Observations on the Birds of the Gulf Coast 



OF Florida. By JV. E. D- Scott . . . . . . 114 



On the Changes of Plumage in the Bobolink (Dolichonyx ory- 



zivorus). 15 v Frank M. Chapman . . . . . .120 



Observations <>n some of the Summer Birds of the Mountain 



Portions of Pickens County, South Carolina. ' By JLev- 



erett M. Loon is . . . . . . . . . . 124 



A List of Birds observed at Santarem, Brazil. By Clarence 



B. Riker. With Annotations by Frank M. Chapman . . . 131 



The Horned Larks of North America. Bv Jonathan D-wight, 



Jr "• • • ■ • 138 



A New Vireo from California. By F. Stephens . . . . 159 

 A Study of the Genus Dendrornis and its Species. By D. G. 



Elliot ............ 160 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Salvin and Godman's Biologia Centrali-Americana — Aves, 1S9; 

 Saunders's Manual of British Birds, 195; Notes on Sport and 

 Ornithology, 196; Doan's Birds of West Virginia, 197; The 



