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The Bikd Rocks of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1SS7. Bv Frederic A. Lucas . 129 



On Thkee Apparently New Subspecies of Mexican Birds! Hy Willium Breivster . 136 

 Notes on the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon. By Dr. J. C. Merrill, U. S. A. 



With Ketnarks on Certain Species by William Brewster 139 



Notes on the Summer Birds of Holderness, Bethlehem, and Franconia, N. H. 



By Walter Faxon and J. A. Allen ■ . . 149 



The Birds of the West Indies, including the Bahama Islands, the Greater and 



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



Charles B. Cory. (Concluded) • 'SS 



On the Avi-fauna of Pinal County, with remarks on some Bird.s of Pima and 



Gila Counties, Arizona. By W. E. D. Scott. Witli Annotations by J. A. Allen. 



(Concluded) " 159 



A Description of an Apparently New Species of Trochiliis from California. 



By J. Amory Jeffries ir,S 



Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. By William Dutcher 169 



Supplementary Notes from the Gulf Coast of Florida, with a Dbscription of 



A New Species of Marsh Wren. By W. E. D. Scott 1S3 



Recent Literature.— Chamberlain's Canadian Birds, 1S9; Seebohin's 'Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of the Charadriidae,' 1S9; Ridj^way on New or Little-known American Birds, 194; Ridgwuy 

 on Wuerdemann's Heron, 195; Ridgway on the Breeding oi Trogon amhigiius in Arizona, 

 195; Stejneger on Japanese Birds, 195; Stejneger on Hawaiian Birds, iq6; Stejneger on Birds 

 of the Commander Islands, 197; Stejneger on Pal.-earctic Bulllinches, 197; Lucas on the 

 Osteology of the Spotted Tinainou, 19S; Shufeldt on Bird Skulls and Sterna collected by Dr. 

 Streets, 19S; Chamberlain's 'Systematic Table of Canadian Birds,' 19S; Sclaler and Hudson's 

 'Argentine Ornithology,' 199; Publications Received, 200. 



General "HoT^-i.—jEchmophorus occidentalis in Kansas, 201 ; Puffinns horealis at Gardiner's 

 Bay, 202 ; Eggs of the Ivory Gull, 202 ; Tlie Old-squaw ( Clangiila hyemnlis) in South Cai-olina, 

 203; Surf Scoter {Oidemia perspicillata) in Kansas, 203; Note on Rostratulinas, 204; The 

 Wild Turkey in Massacluisetts, 204; The Eui-opean Kestril in Massachusetts— A Correction, 

 205; First Occurrence of the Western Red-tail in Ontario, 205 ; Dichr.iniatism in the Genus 

 Nyctidromiis,i:y$\ On the Further Oi-ciuix-iuc of O/oror/.s- <;/y)<>7/7'.s- /•r,;//V(V« in Chester County, 

 South Carolina, 206; Corydomorpha>, 2)7: Mitothnis a/t-r a'^ain in Massachusetts in Winter, 

 207; Blackbird Flights at Burlington, Iowa, 217; ^iiiscnliis quiscida aglceus M CW.wX^^'nm, 

 South Carolina, 20S; The Evening Grosbe.jk in Ontario, 2i S ; Loxia tzirvirostra minor taken 

 again at Yemassee, S. C, 208; Carpodaciis piirpiirens at Pcutland, Maine, in Winter, 209; 

 AinmodramiCiS leconteii lA Yemasee, S. C, 210; Ammodramiis henslovjii wintering in large 

 numbers at Yemassee, S. C, 210; Occurrence of Vireo Jlavoviridis at Riverside, Cal., 210; 

 The Northern Range of Oporornis formosa in Illinois, 210; Protonotaria citrea \n Mont- 

 gomery County, Pennsylvania, 211; Dendroica tigrina at Iowa City, in November, 211; 

 Bird Notes from Toronto, 211. 



Correspondence.— Observations on the Pterylosis of Certain Picida',2i2; Polydactylism in Birds 



Notes and News. — Obituary,— Dr. Joseph B. Holder, Prof. Charles Linden, 220; The Audubon 

 Monument, 221 ; A. O. U'. 'By-Laws and Rules and List of Members,' 221 ; A. O. U. and 'Auk' 

 Matters, 222; Ornithological Societies, 222; American Museum Collection of Birds, 223; 

 'Interlocking' of the Primaries in Birds, 223; New Ornithological Periodicals, 224; Ornitho- 

 logical Explorations in Mexico, 224. 



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