CONTENTS. 



I'AGB 



Notes on the Habits, Nests and Eggs of the Genus Sphyrapinis Baird. By Capt. 



Charles E. Bendire 



New and Hake Birds found Breeding on the San Pedro Maktik Isle. By iV^ 5. 



Goss ^ . . . 24c 



Feeding Haisits of some Young Raptores. By H. Justin Roddy 24^ 



Notes Relative to the Sense of Smell in the Turkey Buzzard {Catharles aura). 



By C. L. Hopkins 2481 



Notes on the Birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon. By Dr. y. C. Merrill, U. S. A. . . 251 

 Description ok a New Tilyra from Western Mexico. By Robert Ridgway . . . 263 

 Description of a New Species of Hummingbird of the Genus Agyrlria. By D. G. 



Elliot, F. R. S. E 263 



On a New Subspecies of Atnmodramtts sandviichensis from Mexico. By Amos \V. Butler. 264 

 Description of a New Myiarchus from the West Indies. By Charles B. Cory . . 266 

 A List of Birds observed at Gainesville, Florida, ^y Frank M. Chapman . . 267 



Great Auk Notes. Hy Frederick A. Lucas . . . .' 



Descriptions of Two New Subspecies of the Seaside Sparrow {Ammodramus mariti- 



mus). ^y y. A. Allen 2S4. 



Description of a New Species of the Genus Tityra fkom Ecuador. By y. A. Allen . 237- 



The Jacanid.e. By D. G. Elliot, F. R. S. E 



A New Form of Clapper Rail. By George B. Sennctt 305 



Recent Literature. — Palm^n's Contributions to the Knowledge of the Bird Fauna of the Si- 

 berian Coasts of the Arctic Sea, 306; A Catalogue of the Birds of North Carolina, 311 ; Minor 

 Ornithological Publications, 312; Publications Received, 317. 



General Notes.— Occurrence oi Larus marinus on the Southern Coast of New Jersey, 31S; The 

 Yellow-nosed Albatross {Tbalassogeron culminatus),'j,\%; Oidemia perspicillata in Florida, 

 319; An addition to the List of North 'American Birds, 319; The Yellow Rail in Connecticut, 

 319; Notes on Melanerpes torquaius, 319; Early Nesting of Otocoris alpestris praticola, 320; 

 Pine Grosbeak in Fulton Co., Kentucky, 321 ; Occurrence of the Chestnut-collared Longspur 

 {Calcarius ornatus) and also of Maccown's Longspur {Rhyncofhanes maccoivnii) in Apache 

 Co., Arizona, 321 ; Euelheia canora from Sombrero Key, Florida. — A Bird New to the United 

 States, 322; An Abnormal Scarlet Tanager, 322; Prothonotary Warbler in Ontario, 322; Bach- 

 man's Warbler {Helminthophila bachmani) in Louisiana, 323; Helminthophila celata in Con- 

 necticut, 323; Dendroica carulea in the District of Columbia, 323; Sciiiriis noveboracensis nota- 

 bills in South Carolina, 324; Two Records for Long Island, New York, 324; Birds at Aiken^ 

 S. C, 324; Notes on Louisiana Birds, 324; Observations on Bird Migration at Milwaukee; 325; 

 Osteological Notes upon Puffins and Ravens, 32S; Abnormalities in the Ribs of Birds, 329. 



Correspondence. — The Sternum in the Solitary Sandpiper, and other Notes, 330. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, — Henry James Stovin Pryer, 332; Dr. Modest N. Bogdanow, 333; 

 Bird Destruction, 334; Edible Birds'-nests, 335; Explorations in the West Indies, 335; Sub-.: 

 scriptions for the Audubon Monument, 336. 



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