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A Nesting of the Blue-winged Warbler in Massachusetts By Horace W. 



Wright 337 



Ax Inquiry into the History of the Current English Names of North American 



Land Birds. By Spencer Trotter 346 



Summer Birds of Iron County, Michigan. By Eliot Blackwelder . . 363 



A Study of a Breeding Colony- of Yellow-headed Blackbirds; Including 

 an Account of the Destruction of the entire Progeny of the Colony by 

 some unknown Natural Agency. By Thomas S. Roberts, M. D. (Plates 

 V-XIV.) 371 



Birds of Central Alberta. By Sidney S. S. Stansell ... . 390 



The Birds of Colorado — Third Supplement. By Wells W. Cooke . . . 400 



The Singular Case of the Black Duck of North America. By Jonathan 



Dwight, Jr., M. D 422 



General Notes. — Capture of an American Eider at Chicago, 426; Breeding of the Least 

 Bittern {Ardetta exUis) in Chester Co., Pa., 426; The Black Rail in Maryland, 427; 

 First Appearance of the Sanderling in the Vicinity of Detroit, 427; Actodromas fusci- 

 collis in Philadelphia County, Pa., 427; The Spruce Partridge in the White Mountains, 

 428; The Passenger Pigeon — Only One Pair Left, 429; The Black Gyrfalcon in 

 Connecticut, 429; The Acadian Flycatcher in Ontario, 430; European Starling Nesting 

 at Princeton, New Jersey, 430; The Meadowlark in Maine, and Other Notes, 430; Note 

 on the Red Crossbill aiid the Pine Finch in South Carolina, 432; The Grasshopper 

 Sparrow at Ottawa, Ontario, 432: The Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor) in North- 

 ern Ontario, 432; Breeding of the Mockingbird near Boston, 433; The Carolina Wren 

 in Washtenau County, Michigan, 434; Brown Creepers Nesting near St. Louis, 434; 

 A Colony of Hermit Thrushes at Yaphank, Long Island, N. Y., 435; North Carolina 

 Notes, 436; Notes from Crawford Notch, N. H., 437; Additions to the List of Birds 

 of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Western Maryland, 437; The Food of Several 

 Maine Water-Birds, 438; Hybridism and Generic Characters in the Trochilidse, 440. 



Recent Literature. — Cory's 'The Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin,' 442; Wrights' 'Birds 

 of the Boston Public Garden,' 443; Hersey and Rockwell on the Birds of the Barr Lake 

 District, Colorado, 445; McGregor on Birds from Northern Mindanao, 445; McGregor 

 on Philippine Ornithological Literature, 445; Marble on Birds of New Hampshire, 446: 

 Reed's ' Bird Guide', 446; Cherrie on New Birds from the Orinoco Region and Trinidad, 

 446" Miller's Experiment in the Colonization of the House Martin, 446; Walcott's 

 Analysis of the Bird Fauna of Nebraska, 447; Publications Received, 448. 



Correspondence. — New Edition of Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, 450; Avian Osteol- 

 ogy and Game Bird Protection, 450. 



Notes \nd News. — Obituary; William H. Brownson, 453. New Ornithological Works 

 in Prospect. 4.53; Personal Notes, 454; The New Quarters of the Division of Birds in 

 the National Museum, 4.54; The Bristol County Academy of Sciences, 455; Bird Pro- 

 tection Notes, 455; Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologist's Union, 456. 



Index 457 



Errata 483 



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