CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Spencer Fullerton Baikd. By Robert Ridgvjav i 



Upper Missouri River Birds, ^y Robert S. Williams i^ 



An Annotated List of Birds Breeding in the District of Columbia. Bv Charlea 



W. Richmond -...'... iS 



Feeding Habits of Pdecaniis erylhrorhynchus. By N. S. Goss 25 



Notes on Gymnostinops montezumce. By N. S. Goss • ... 27 



On the Avi-fauna of Pinal County, with Remarks on Some Birds of Pima and 



Gila Counties, Arizona. By W. E. D. Scott 29 



New Forms of North American Chordiles. By Elliott Coues 37 



Observations on Nocturnal Migration of Birds. By Fraijk M. Chapman ... 37 

 Notes oe the Peuccea rttficeps Group, with Description of a New Subspecies. By 



George B. Sennett 4"^ 



Descriptions of a New Species and Two New Subspecies of Birds from Texas. 



By George B. Seunett • 43 



Description of a Supposed New Form of Margarops fro.vi Dominica. By Charles 



B. Cory "... 47 



An Apparently New Elainea from Barbadoes, West Indies. By Charles B. Cory. 47 

 The Birds of the West Indies inclu(ji.\g the Bahama Islands, the Greater and 

 Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles 



B. Cory . . . • 4S 



Descriptions of Supposed New Birds from Lower California, Sonora, and Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico, and the Bahamas. By William Brevjsier . . .... 82 



Fifth Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union 95 



Recent Literature.— Coues's 'Key to North Ameiic;in Biids' New Edition, loi ; Townseiid's 

 Field-notes on the Birds of Northern California, 104 ; Shiifeldt's Contributions to Avisection, 

 104; A New Ornithichnite, 105; Clark's 'Birds of Amherst', ^05; Publications Received. 



General Notes. — Lanes atricilla a\. Sprina^field, Mass., 107; The Yellow-nosed Albatross ( Thal- 

 assogeron ctilminatus) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 107; Cory's Shearwater at Newport, R. I., 

 loS; Ralliis longirostris crepitans Breeding on the Coast of Louisiana, loS; lonornis marlinica 

 in Arizona, 109; Habits of the Purple Gallinule {lonornis martinica), 109; Unexpected Occur- 

 rence of Certain Shore Birds in Texas in Midsummer and in Breeding Plumage, no; The 

 European Kestrel in Massachusetts, no; Uliila cinerea in Steuben Co., New York, no; Mega- 

 scops asiofloridaiuis in Louisiana, 1 1 1 ; Ceophlaeus pilealits in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 

 in; Breeding of the Prairie Horned Lark in Eastern New York — A Correction, in; The 

 Prairie Horned Lark {Otocoris alpestris praticold) on the Coast of Massachusetts, in ; Occur- 

 rence of the Florida Blue Jay {Cvanocitta cristata florincola) in Southwestern Texas, 112; 

 Abnormal Plumage oi Xan'thocef'lialus xanthocephalus, 112; Notice of the Presence of ^uiscaltis 

 qitisctila aerlceus 'Lawisia.na., 113; Breeding of the Evening Grosbeak (Coccothraiistesvesperlina) 

 in the White Mountains of Arizona, 113; Occurrence of Coccolhrauttes respertina in Iowa, 

 114; Lo.xia cnrvirostra minor again at Yemassee, S. C, 115; A Philadelphia Yireo and a 

 Cobweb, 115; Helminthophila leiicohronchialis in Pennsylvania, 115; The Yellow-breasted 

 Chat Breeding in Maiden, Mass., Ji6; Sylvania mitraia at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 

 November, 116; On the Nesting of Palmer's Thrasher, 116; Feeding W-Ahit&oi Sitta catiadensis, 

 118; Spotted Eggs of Pariis gambeli, 118; What Birds indicate Proximity to Water, and at 

 What Distance, 119. 



Correspondence. — Propatagialis ciicullaris, 120. 



Notes and News. — The Audubon Monument, 12',; The Bird Collection of the British Museum, 

 124; Seebohm's 'Geographical Distribvition of the Charadriidce,' 125; Editorship of 'The Auk,' 

 126; 'Discoverv' in regard to the Soaring of Birds, 126; Destruction of Birds in Florida, 12S. 



Appendix. — By-Laws and Rules of the American Ornithologists' L'^nion, ix; Lists of Officers and 

 Members of the American Ornithologists' Union, December, 1SS7, xix. 



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