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CONTENTS. 



Bkeeding of the Golden-chested Kinglet (^Regnhis sati-npa) in Worcesteij Countv, 

 Massachusetts, with a Desckiption of its Nest and Egg-j. By William Biexvster . 



Birds OF Cakkoll Countv, Indiana. Tiy Barton W. Evermann 



Notes on the Ntsi- and Kggs of Peittcea eestivalis bachmanii Avu., Baciiman's Si'aukow. 

 By Caft. Charles E. Ben lire ... . 



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

 Uemarks on certain Species by Williinn Brewster ... 31 



Notes on the Habits, Nests and Eggs ok the Genus Glaucidium Boie. Bv Cahi. 



Clutrles E. Bendire • ■ . « 



A Summary of Observations on the Birds of the Gulf Coast of Florida. Bv W 

 E. D. Scolt ■ '■ X 



Testimony of Some Early Voyagers on the Great Auk. By Fannie P. Hardy . . i 



Nesting of the Red-faced Warhlek {CarJellina rnbrifrons) In iiiK Huaciiuca Moun- 

 tains, SouTiiiiuN Arizona. By W. W.Price j 



Notes on THE Birds OF Winchendon, WoRCESTEit County, Massachusetts. By Wil- 

 liam Brewster 4 



List OF Additions TO the North American Avifauna and of Eliminations and 

 Changes IN NoMENC. A I URE MADE since THK Publication OF the A. O. U. Check- 

 List. By Frank M. Chapman ■» 



Description of the Breehing Plumage of Chadbourne's Field Sparrow {Spizella 

 «ri'««f^(7), with Evidence OF ITS SPhCiFic Distinctness. V,y Dr. C. Hart Merriam . ^ 



Description of a New Species of Wren from the Island ofTouago, West Indies. By 

 George N. Lazurence . . '. 4( 



Description OF an Apparently New Pt;o(«/t'A- FROM Oregon. By G. S. Miller, yr. . m 



Nesting OF THE Prairie Warbler (Deiidroica discolor) in the Vicinity of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. By Elliott Baird Cones 41 



Recent Literature.— Turner's Report of his Ornithologicnl Observations in Alaska, 40 

 Sharpe's Catalogue of tlie Family Fringillidie, 410; Slnileldt on the Osteology of the lAerid 

 and Corvidae, 413; Shufeldt on the Skeleton of the Carolina Rail, 414; Vernacular Ornitholog- 

 414; Allen on the Emargiuation of the Primaries, 41S; Birds of Morris County, Newjerse 

 421 ; Publications Received, 422. 



General Notes. — Note on the Correct Name of Symphemia semipalmata inornata Brewsl 

 423; A Second Maine (and Fourtli Nlw Entfland) Specimen of .Swainson's Hawk {Butt 

 swainsoni), 424 ; Nesting of the Black Swift, 434; Xaiitus's IJecarJ {Platvpsaris albiveniris) i 

 the Huachuca Mountains, Southern Arizona, ^25; Coccolhratistes vespertina in Nebraska, 42W 

 Tameness of the Pine Siskin, 42'3; Further Notes on Sea.'.ide Sparrows, 426; A Second Instancf 

 of the Breeding of the White-tliroaiccl Sparrow in Eastern Massachusetts, 426; A Thirc 

 Specimen of Lawrence's Warhler, 427; Notes on Htlminthophila lencohronchialis, 427 

 Bachman's Warbler Helminthaphila hachmani at Key West, Florida, in July and Aiii^nst, 42S; 

 Z)«/rfro;cfl co/-o«(7/rt at Key West in Summer, 450; Breeding of the Cerulean Warl^ler {Den 

 droica cterrilea) in Niagara County, New York, 430; Dendroica ccerulea at Seymour, Connect!' 

 cut, 431 ; An Albino Blackpoll Warbler, 432; Cistothorus palustrii, viarianK on\\\ii coast 

 Georgia, 432; Capture of the Brown-headed Nuthatch near Elmira, New York, 432; Ii 

 peded Migration and Destruction of Birds at Chicago, 432; Reason or Instinct?, 434; Notes 

 the Nomenclature of the Muscles of Volation in Birds' Wings, 435. 



Correspondence. — The Osteology of Hahia melanocephala with Comparative Notes upon th 

 Skeletons of certain other Coni'rostral Birds and of Tanagers, 43S; How far West has Ana 

 ohsaira been Found ?, 444. 



Notes and News.— Obituary— Charles Wickliffe Beckham, 445; Philip Henry Gossc, 446; Th^ 

 Sixth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, 447; The Henshaw Collection, 4473 

 Report of the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, 447; Dr. Menzbier's 'Ornii 

 thologie du Turkestan,' 4f7; Audubon Monument, 44S; Papers awaiting Publication in th^ 

 Auk, 44S. 



Supplement: — 



Description of New Species and Subspecies of Birds from the Neotropical 

 Region. By Hans von Berlepsch 



Supplementary Remarks on the Genus /"."t/V/or/^/rt Rrisson. By Robert Ridgway 



Index 46 



Erratum 48^ 



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