Contents of Volume XI. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Nehrling's Birds, 166 ; Anthony on the Birds of San Pedro Martir, 

 Lower California, 167; Short's Birds of Western New York, 16S; 

 Ridgway on the Genus Myiarc/ius, 168; Ridgway on a Small Col- 

 lection of Costa Rican Birds, 169; Ridgway on a Collection of 

 Birds from Alaska, 169; Ridgwajon a New Storm Petrel, 169; 

 Ridgway on the Genus Formicari/is, 169; Stejneger on Japanese 

 Birds, 170; Richmond's Notes on Nicaraguan Birds, 170; 

 Ogilvie-Grant's 'Catalogue of the Game Birds,' 171 ; Elliot's 

 Monograph of the Pittidge, 173; Chapman on the Birds of the 

 Island of Trinidad, 173; Publications Received, 173. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



An Abundance of Murres in the Environs of Quebec, 175; The 

 Double-crested Cormorant, 175; A Correction, 175; In Re 

 Dutcher on the Labrador Duck, 175; The Labrador Duck. — An 

 Overlooked Specimen and Record, 176; The Yellow-crowned 

 Night Heron in Rhode Island, 177; High Plumage in the 

 Ptarmigan, 177; Capture of Ceryle torquata (Linn.) at Laredo, 

 'Texas, 177; Dryobates scalaris lucasanus in San Diego County, 

 California, 178; Notes on the Capture of the Gray Kingbird 

 (Tyrannus dominicensis) near Charleston, S. C, 178; Picicorvits 

 an Untenable Genus, 179; Notes on the Distribution of the 

 Bobolink in South Carolina, 179; The Change from Winter to 

 Spring Plumage in the Male Bobolink, 180; Calcarius lappon- 

 icies in Winter at Palmer, Marquette Co., Mich., 180; Missouri 

 Pipit in Louisiana, 181 ; The Western Winter Wren in Southern 

 California, 181; Notes on Some Connecticut Birds, 181; Rare 

 Visitants to the Connecticut River Valley in 1893, 181 ; Some 

 Summer Birds of the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, 182 ; Ten 

 New Birds for Colorado, 182. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Frank Bolles, 184; Random Notes on Some of the Parasites of Birds 

 186. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary, Rev. Samuel Lockwood, Ph.D., 189; Dr. William 

 Cushman Avery, 190; Mcllwraith's 'Birds of Ontario,' 190; 

 Minot's 'Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England,' 190; 

 Reprint of Ord's Zoology, 190; Western Pennsylvania Orni- 

 thological Society, 191 ; Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 

 X 9 X 5 E gg s of the Great Auk, 191. 



