Contents of Volume XXVI. 



NUMBER III 



The Geological and Geographical Relations of the Land- 

 Bird Fauna of Northeastern America. By Spencer Trotter 221 



The Use of Wings and Feet by Diving Birds. By Charles W. 



Townsend, M. D 234 



A Reprint of the Ornithological Writings of C. S. Rafinesque. 



By Charles W. Richmond ....... 248 



A Carolina Wren Invasion of New England. By Charles W. 



Townsend, M. D 263 



Some Original Manuscript Relating to the History of Town- 



send's Bunting. By Ruthven Deane ..... 269 



Annotated List of the Water Birds of Weld, Morgan and 

 Adams Counties, Colorado, South to the First Sectional 

 Line below the Fortieth Parallel. By A. H. Felger . 272 



An Instance of Hybridization in Hummingbirds, with Remarks 

 on the Weight of Generic Characters in the Trochilid.e. 

 By Walter P. Taylor 291 



Fifteenth Supplement to the American Ornithologists' 



Union Check-List of North American Birds . . . 294 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Additional Record of the European Widgeon (Mareca penelope), 

 304; Capture of the European Widgeon in New Hampshire, 304; 

 The Lesser Snow Goose (Chen hyperborea nivalis) in Gorham, 

 Maine, 304; A Second Record for the Fulvous Tree-Duck taken 

 in Missouri, 304; Third Record of the Purple Gallinule (Ionornis 

 martinica) in Illinois, 305; Wilson's Snipe wintering in Pennsyl- 

 vania, 305; The Lesser Yellow-legs in Chester County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 305; Early Nesting of the Barn Owl in Delaware, 305; 

 Northern Breeding Limit of the Chuck-wills-widow, 306; The 

 Starling near Springfield, Mass., 306; The Capture of the Red- 

 eyed Cowbird in Arizona, 307 ; The Present Status of the Meadow- 

 lark (Sturnella magna) near Portland, Maine, 307; Another Hoary 

 Redpoll (Aeanthis hornemanni exilipes) at Westbrook, Maine, 30S; 

 Late Records for Siskins in Chester County, Pa., 308; The third 

 Specimen of the Summer Tanager for Canada, 308; Prothonotary 

 Warbler taken on the Coast of Maine, 309; The Races of the 

 Parula Warbler, 309; Breeding of the Louisiana Water-Thrush 

 (Seiurus motacilla) in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, 310; 

 Concerning Thryomanes bewicki cryptus in Colorado, 311 ; A Correc- 

 tion, 312; Bicknell's Thrush (Hylocichla alicice bicknelli) in 

 Cumberland County, Maine, 312; The Rank of Certain Groups of 

 Birds, 313; Three Records for British Columbia, 313; Some 

 New Birds for Colorado, 314; Notes concerning Certain Birds of 

 Long Island, New York, 314. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Jubilee Meeting of the British Ornithologists' Union, 317; Thayer 

 and Bangs on the Birds of Guadaloupe Islands, 319; Bangs on 

 Birds from Western Colombia, 320; Bangs on Costa Rican Birds, 

 320 ; Ridgway on New Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Tropical 



