CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Barred Owls in Captivity. By Frank Bolles 101 



A Summary of Observations on the Birds of the Gulf Coast of Florida. By 



W. E. D. Scott 114 



On tiik Changes of PLUMAGE in the BOBOLINK {Dolirhonyx oryzivorus). By Frank 



M. Chapman 120 



Observations on some of the Summer Birds of the Mountain Portions of Pick- 

 ens County, South Carolina. By Levereit M, Loom is. 124 



A List of Birds observed at Santarem, Brazil. By Clarence B. Riker. With An- 

 notations by Frank M. Chapman. ............ 131 



The Hokned Larks of North America. By Jonathan Dvight, Jr 13 s 



A New Vireo from California. By F. Stephens 159 



A Study of the Genus Dendromis and its Species. By D. G. Elliot .... 160 



Recent Literature. — Salvin and God man's Biolo'gia Ccntrali Americana — Aves, 1S9: Saun- 

 ders's Manual of British Birds, 195; Votes on Sport and Ornithology, 196; Doan'S Birds of 

 West Virginia, 197; The Quadrate Bone in Birds, 198 \ Minor Ornithological .Publicati 

 19S; Publications Received, 201. 



General Notes. — The Appearance of the Razor-billed Auk {Alca torda) on the Const of North 

 Carolina, 203; The Great Auk in the U. S. National Museum. 2oy. Eggsof the Florida Dusky 

 Duck, 204; Another Capture of the Widgeon [Anas pentlope) on the Atlantic Coast, 204; Cap- 

 ture of a Specimen of Soma/rrin dresscri in the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada, 204; The Red Pha- 

 larope on Lake Erie, 204; Recent Occurrence of the Turkey Vulture in Eastern Massachusetts. 

 24; Harlan's Hawk a Race of the Red-tail, and not a Distinct Species, 205; Capture of a 

 Third Specimen of the Barn Owl in Massachusetts, 305; The Great Gray Owl in Lew-is County, 

 New York, 206; Pico ides arctiens in Central New York, 206: The Red-bellied Woodpecker in 

 Northwestern New Jersey, 206; Food of V.oung Hummingbirds, 206; Remarks on certain Spe- 

 cies of Dendromis, 207 ; The Purple Grackle at Charleston, South Carolina. 20S ; Quiscalus 

 quisatla aliens Killing and Catching Goldfish, 20S; The Evening Grosbeak at Montreal. 21 9; 

 Coccothranstes vesper Una in Erie County, N. Y., 209; Evening Grosbeaks in Vermont, 

 Coccothraustes vespertina at Amherst, Massachusetts, 210; Evening Grosbeaks in Hampden 

 County, Massachusetts, 210; The Evening Grosbeak in Connecticut, 21 1 ; Evening and Pine 

 Grosbeaks in Ontario, 211 ; The Ipswich Sparrow in Georgia, zn ; The Acadian Sharp-tailed 

 Sparrow and Scott's Seaside Sparrow on the Const of South Carolina, 212; Passer domesficus 

 in Cape Breton, 212 ; Shrikes of Minnesota, 213; Notes on some Minnesota Birds, 213; Noti- 

 on Pacific Coast Birds, 214. 



Correspondence. — Recording the Numbers of Birds Obsen ed, -mo. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Dr. Ladislas Tackzanowski, 21S; Amendments of the A. 0. 1 . 

 By-Laws, 21^; A Study of the Genus Jitiiio, 219; Minor Ornithological Publications, 219; 

 Record Sheets, 220; Fourth Edition of Dr. Coues's 'Key to North American Birds,' 220; *Orni- 

 thologisches Jahrbucb,' 220: 'The Observer,' 220: Mr. W. E. D. Scott's Explorations, 220; Pil- 

 eated Woodpecker, 220. 



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