CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Spencer Fullerton Baird. Bv Robert Ridgwav . . . . i 

 Upper Missouri River Birds. By Robert S. Williams . . 14 



An Annotated List of Birds Breeding in the District of 



Columbia. Bv Charles W. Richinond 18 



Feeding Habits of Pelecanus erythrorhyuchos. By N. S. Goss . 21; 

 Notes on Gymnostiuops montezutnce. By A''. 5. Goss . . -27 

 On the Avifauna of Pinal County, with Remarks on some 

 Birds of Pima and Gila Counties, Arizona. By W. E. D. 



Scott. With annotations by J. A. Allen 29 



New Forms of North American Chordiles. Bv Elliott Ooues . 37 

 Observations on Nocturnal Migration of Birds. By Frank 



M. Chapman ........... 37 



Notes on the Penccea ruficeps Group, with Description of a 



NEW Subspecies. By George B. Sennctt . . . . .40 



Descriptions of a New Species and Two New Subspecies of 



Birds from Texas. By George B. Scnnett . . . -43 

 Description of a Supposed New Form of Margarops from 



Dominica. By Charles B. Cory ....... 47 



An Apparently New Elainea from Barbadoes, West Indies. 



By Charles B. Cory 47 



The Birds r>F the West Indies, including the Bahama Islands, 

 the Greater and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the Isl- 

 ands OF Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory . . 48 

 Descriptions of Supposed New Birds from Lower California, 

 Sonora, and Chihuahua, Mexico, and the Bahamas. By 



William Bre-Mster . 82 



Fifth Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union. . 95 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Coues's'Key to North American Birds,' New Edition, loi ; Townsend's 

 Field-notes on the Birds of Northern California, 104; Shufeldt's 

 Contributions to Avisection, 104; A New Ornithichnite, 105; 

 Clark's 'Birds of Amherst', 105; Publications Received, 106. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Z,«rw5 rt/r^c/Z/rt at Springfield. Mass., 107; The Yellow-nosed Alba- 

 tross {Thalassogeron rulminattts') in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 107; Cory's Shearwater at Newport, R. I., 108; The Black Duck 

 in Chihuahua, 108; Ralliis longirostris crepitatis Breeding on the 

 Coast of Louisiana, 108; lonornis martinica in Arizona, 109; 



