Contents of Volume XI. 



NUMBER III. 



PAGE 



Geographical, versus Sexual, Variation in Oreortyx pictus. 



By Robert Ridgzvay. (Plate VI.) 193 



The Habits and Individualities of the Red-shouldered Hawk 



(Buteo liiiecjtus) in the Vicinity of Brookline, Mass. By 



Fred. H. Kennard. (With Map.) 19? 



Notes on the Genus Heleodytes, with a Description of a New 



Subspecies. By A. W. Anthony. 210 



Ornithological Notes on a Flying Trip through Kansas, New 



Mexico, Arizona and Texas. By Henry K. Coale. . . 215 



Notes on Certain Water Birds in Massachusetts. By George 



H. Mackay 223 



Staten Island Crows and their Roosts. By William T. Davis. 228 

 The Distribution of Genera and Species of Non-migratory 



Land Birds in the Philippines. By J. B. Steere. (With 



Map.) 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Mcllwraith's Birds of Ontario, 240; Sharpe's Catalogue of the Fuli- 

 carire and Alectorides, 242 ; Elliot's Monograph of the Pittidae, 

 243; A Bird-Lover in the West, 243; The Birds of Kentucky, 

 244; Cherrie on Costa Rican Birds, 245; Jouy on Central 

 Mexican Birds, 245; Verrill on the Birds of Dominica, 246; 

 Raine's Bird-Nesting in North-West Canada, 247; Publications 

 Received, 249. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Northern Phalaropes off the New Hampshire Coast, 250; Turkey 

 Vulture in Eastern Massachusetts, 250; Obliteration of the Tarsal 

 Scutella in Accifiter cooferi in Texas, 251; The Barn Owl 

 (Slrix pratincole?) in Northern Vermont, 253; Observations on 

 the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 253; The Bobolink on the 

 Coast of South Carolina, 255; An Ingenious Pair of House 

 Finches (Carpodacns frontalis), 255: Leconte's Sparrow {Ammo- 

 dramns leconteii) in large numbers near Charleston, South 

 Carolina, 2156; Taming a Chipping Sparrow {Spizella social is), 

 2^6; Kirtland's Warbler in Northeastern Illinois, 258; The 

 Water Ouzel in the Coast Range south of Monterey, California, 

 258: The Mockingbird in Wyoming, 258; Bird Notes from 

 Virginia, 259; Connecticut Notes, 260; Notes on Kansas Birds, 

 260T Temperature and Nest-building, 260; Change of Habits in 

 our Native Birds, 261. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Pierre Louis Jouy, 262; William C. Avery, M. D., 263; 

 Dr. Alexander Theodor von Middendorff, 264; Dr. Leopold von 

 Schrenck, 264; 'Foreign Finches in Captivity,' 264: Curator- 

 ship of Ornithology in the Field Columbian Museum, 264. 



