

CONTENTS. 



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On Birds observed at the Dim Tortugas, Florida, diring Parts of March and 



April, 1890. By If. E. D. Scott *. . . 301 



A Supposed New Species of Hummingbird in the Royal Zoological Museum of 



Dresden. By A'. B. Meyer ... 315 



SoMATERlA DRESSKRI, THE American Eider. By George H. Machay 315 



On a Collection of Birds from Fort Churchill, Hudson's Bay. By W. Eagle 



Clarke 319 



The Nesting of the Yellow-throated Warbler at Raleigh, N. C. By C. S. Brim 



ley 3 2 3 



Birds found Breeding on Seven Mile Beach, New Jersey. By Chcrles S. Shirk . 326 

 Notes on Habits and Nesting of Vireoflavoviridis (Cass.). By George K. Ckerrie . 329 

 North American Birds found at San Jose, Costa Rica, with" Notes on their Mi- 

 gration. By George K. Ckerrie 331 



Notes on Habits of a Few Birds of Orange County, Florida. By D. Mortimer . 337 

 Description of a New Species of Icterus from Andros Island, Bahamas By J. A. 



Allen 343 



A List of Birds from Northeast Borneo, with Field Notes by Mr. C. F. Adams. 



By D. G. Elliot . . 346 



Summer Robin Roosts. By William Brervsler . . 360 



On a Collection of Birds" made during the Winter of iSS9-90, by Cyrus S. Winch, 

 in the Islands of St. Thomas, Tortola, Anegada, and Virgin Gorda, West 



Indies. By Charles B. Cory 373 



Description of a New Subspecies of Wild Turkey'. By W. E. D. Scott . . . 376 

 A New Subspecies of the Solitary' Sandpiper. By William Brewster . . . 377 



Recent Literature. — Sclater's Catalogue of the Tracheophonse, 379; Allen on Birds from 

 Quito, 3S0; Allen on Biids collected in Bolivia, 3S1 ; Allen on the Genus Cyclorhis, 382; 

 Allen's Descriptions of New South American Birds, 384; Allen on Individual and Seasonal 

 Variation in the Genus Elainea, 3S5 ; Allen on the Maximilian Tvpes of South American Birds, 

 j86; Dionne's Catalogue of the Birds of Quebec, 3S7 ; Proceedings of the Linnaean Society, 

 3S7 : Minor Ornithological Publications, 3SS; Publications Received, 39S. 



General Notes. — The Little Black Rail {Porzana jamaicensis) at Key West, Florida, 400; The 

 Do witcher at Ottawa, 400; The American Barn Ow near Troy, New York, 400; Strix pratin- 

 cola in Western New York, 400; A Correction, 400; Breeding of the Pileated Woodpecker in 

 Worcester Countv, Massachusetts, 400; Melanerpes aurifrons in Young Co., Texas, in 1S7S, 

 401; Notes on Eugenes fulgens, 402 ; The Philadelphia Vireo in Vermont, 403; Spotted Eggs 

 of Swainson's Warbler, 403; Helminthophila chrysoptera in Manitoba, 404 ; Was he a Philan- 

 thropist? 404; Capture of a Second Specimen of the Hooded Warbler in Massachusetts, 407 ; 

 Interesting Nesting Site of a Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) , 407; The Hudsonian 

 Chickadee (Par/is kudsonicus) in Vermont and Massachusetts, 407; Myadestes iownsendii ih 

 Nebraska, 40S; The Long-billed Marsh Wren, Maryland Yellowthroa't, Nashville Warbler*, 

 and Great Blue Heron in Eastern Massachusetts in Winter, 408; Two Notes from South Caro- 

 lina, 410. 



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., 

 412; Second International Ornithological Congress, 412; Sparrow Legislation, 413; New 

 Books. 414 ; Work of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, 414; Mr. Jona- 

 than Dwight, Jr., 414. 



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