iv Contents of Volume V. 



Habits of the Purple Galliniile {lonornis martinica), 109; Unex- 

 pected Occurrence of Certain Shore Birds in Texas in Midsum- 

 mer and in Breeding Plumage, no; The European Kestrel in 

 Massachusetts, no; UliiUi cinerea in Steuben Co., New York, 

 no; Megascope asio Jforidaniis \r\ Louisiana, in; Ceoplilaens pi- 

 leatits in Franklin County, Massachusetts, in; Breeding of the 

 Prairie Horned Lark in Eastern New York— A Correction, ni, 

 The Prairie Horned Lark (Otoco/-is alpestris pruticola) on the 

 Coast of Massachusetts, in; Occurrence of the Florida Blue 

 ]a.y {Cyaiiocifta cristaia Jlorincola) in Southwestern Texas, 112; 

 Abnormal Plumage of Xantkocephalus xautkocephalus, 112; No- 

 tice of the Presence oi ^iiiscolus qitiscula ceneiis in Upper South 

 Carolina, 113; ^uiscalus qiiiscul i afflceiis in Louisiana. 1x3; 

 Breeding of the Evening Grosbeak {Coccothrausfes vespcrtina) 

 in the White Mountains of Arizona, 113; Occurrence of Cocco- 

 tkrausies vespertina in Iowa, 114; Loxia carviro-<tra minor 

 again at Yemassee, S. C, n5 ; A Philadelphia Vireo and a Cob- 

 web, 115; Hclmi7ithophila leucohroncliialis'x'n Pennsylvania, 115; 

 The Yellow-breasted Chat Breeding in Maiden, Mass.. 116; Syl- 

 vania ftiitrata at Germantown, Pennsjlvania. in November, 116; 

 On the Nesting of Palmer's Thrasher, ii6; Feeding Habits of 

 Sitta canadensis, 118; Spotted Eggs of Pains gambeli, 118; 

 What Birds indicate Proximity to Water, and at What Distance, 

 119. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Propatagialis cucullatis. 120. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Audubon Monument, 123; The Bird Collection of the British 

 Museum, 124; Seebohm's 'Geographical Distribution of the 

 Charadriidse, 125; Editorship of 'The Auk,' 126; "Discovery' in 

 regard to the Soaring of Birds, 126; Destruction of Birds in 

 Florida, 12S. 



APPENDL\. 



By-Laws and Rules of the American Ornithologists' Union, ix ; Lists 

 of Officers and Members of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 December, 1887, xix. 



NUMBER II. 



Page 

 The Bird Rocks of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1887. By 



Frederic A. Lucas .129 



On Three Apparently New Sub.species of Mexican Birds. By 



William Brewster 136 



Notes on the Birds of Fort Ki.amath. Oregon. By Dr. y. C. 



Merrill, U. S. A. With remarks on certain Species by William 



Breivster 139 



Additions to the Avifauna of Washington and Vicinity. By 



Hugh M. Smith and William Palmer 147 



