Coii/f/i/s of Volume VIIT. 



NUMBER III. 



Observations on the Birds of Jamaica. I. Notes ox the Habits 

 OF THE Yellow-billed Tropic Bird {P/ia'iiton Jiaviros/ ris) . By 

 W. E. D. Scott .... 2-^6 



Yellow-bellied Woodpeckers and their IIninvited Guests 



By Fyufik Bolles 256 



A Preliminary List of the Birds of San Jose, Costa Rica. By 



George K. C/icm'e . . • ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • -7^ 



The Scoters ( Oidemia americana, O. deglaudi, and O. fcrspicillata") 



in New England. By George H. Mackay 279 



yiinco caroliiiciisis shown to re a Subspecies. By 'Jonathini D-vight. 



Jr 290 



List of Birds Taken and observed in Cuba and the Bahama 



Islands, during March and April, 1S91. By Charles B. Cory. 292 



List of Birds collectkd by C. S. Winch, in the Caicos Islands 

 and Inagua, Bahamas, during January and February, and in 

 Abaco in March. 1891. By Charles B. Cory .... 295 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



(iiitke's 'Die Vogelwarte Helgoland,' 299; Cory's 'Birds of the Bahama 

 Islands,' 300; Grant's 'Our Common Birds,' 301 ;Thompsan's 'Birds 

 of Manitoba,' 301 ; Canadian Bird Notes, 302 ; Stone's List of 'Birds 

 collected in Yucatan and Southern Mexico.' 303; The Owls in the 

 Collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, 303 ; 

 Stone on the Genus Psilorhiiius, 304; Professor Thompson on 

 the Systematic Position of He$pcrornis, 304; Townsend on the 

 Birds of the Coast and Islands of Upper and Lower California. 

 305; Palmer on Birds observed during the Cruise of the 'Gram- 

 pus,' 305; Lucas on the Anatomy and History of the Great Auk, 

 306; Publications Received, 306. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Briinnich's Murre in Connecticut, 307; The Sandhill Crane (Grtis 

 mcxica/ia) in South Carolina, 30S ; Capture of a Fourth Specimen 

 oi Ardefta /teoxeiia, 309; Notes on the Nest and Habits of Cory's 

 Bittern {Botaiiriis neoxc/ins). 309; Phalaropnslobatus off Scituate, 

 Mass., 310; The Wild Pigeon {Ectopistes migrator las'), 310; The 

 Breeding Range of the Sparrow Hawk {Falco sparverias) in 

 Texas, 312; Great Gray Owl in Worcester County, Mass., 313; 

 Acadian Owl {Nyctala acadica) at Washington, D. C, 313; Oc- 

 currence of the Groove-billed Ani at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, 313; 

 Groove-billed Ani {Crotofhaga snlcirostris) in Arizona, 313; 

 The First Plumage of Otocoris alpestris strigata Hensh.,314; 

 European Goldfinch {Carditclis cardiielis) Breeding in Worcester 

 County, Mass., 314; Description of the Nests and Eggs of Z>e«- 

 droica gract(E and Coiitopiis pcrtt'nax, 314; A Female Piranga 

 rubra Assuming the Plumage of the Male, 315; Capture of 

 Geothlypis poliocephala palpchralis \n Cameron County, Texas, 

 316; Bachman's Warbler {Hclmiiithophila bachmani) at Raleigh, 



