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A Study of Florida Gallinules, with some Notes on a Nest found at Cam- 



- ^; HKiDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. By William Brewster i 



A. List of Bikds from Noktheasi- Borneo, with Field Notes by Mr. C. F. 



Adams. By D. G. Elliot 7 



The Habits of the Ctolden Plover {Charadriits dominicits) in Massachusetts. By 



'i .George H. Mackay i^ 



A List of Birds observed at Santarem, Brazil. By Clarence B. Riker. With 



Ahnot^itions hy Frank M. Chapman . . . . ' 24 



Some Bikd Songs. By Simeon Pease Cheney 33 



On the West Indian Species of thk Genus Cerlhinla or Ccereha: By Charles B. 



Cory 37 



Notes o.\ West Indian Bikus. Bv Charles B. Cory . . 41 



A Collection of Birds taken bv Cyrus S. Winch in the Islands ok Anguilla, 



Antigua, and St. Eustatius, West Indies, during April, May, June, and a 



Part of July, 1S90. By Charles B. Cory 46 



A List of the Birds collected in the Islands of St. Croix and St. Kitts, 



\V*EST IndIes, during March and April, and in Guadeloupe during August, 



Sepiembbr, and October, 1S90. By Charles B. Cory ....... 47 



A Further Kevikw of the Avian Fauna of Chester County, South Carolina. 



Ms Levereit M. Loomis ... . . . . . - 49 



Descripiton of a New Subspecies of Cypselid.e of the Genus Chatiira, with a 



Note on the Diablotin. By George AT. Lawrence 59 



Description of a New Species of Rhamphoceltts from Costa Hica. By George K. 



Cherrie 62 



Thk Hirds of Andros Island, Bahamas. By John I. Northrttp 64 



Eighth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union So 



Third Supi'Lement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North 



Amekican Bihds S3 



Recent Literature. — Sharpe's Catalogue of the Stiirniformes, 90; Hari>;itt's Qatalotruc ot tlie 

 Woodpeckers, 92; Meniani's 'Results of a Biological Suivey of the San Francisco Mnunlain 

 Region and Desert of tlie Little Colorado, Arizona,' 95 ; Seebolini's Birds of the Japanese 

 Empire, 99; Warren's Revised Report on the Buds ot Pennsylvania, loi ; Belding't ' Li'nd 

 Birds of the Pacific District,' 104; A Catalogue of the Birds of New Jersey. 104; Rivcs'.s Cat- 

 alogue of the Birds of the Virginias, 105; Minor Ornithological Publications, ic6; Publica- 

 tions Received, no. 



General Notes. — Anas crecca in Connecticut, 1:2; Barrow's GoXden-eye. {Glazicioneita is/andica) 

 near Washington, D. C, 112; Second Occurrence of the White-faced Glossy Ihis {Plegadis 

 gitaraiina) in Kansas, 112; Phal.iropes at Swampscott, Mass., 112; Golden Eagle at Shelter 

 Island, New York, 113; Falco dominicensis Gniel. versus Falco sparverioides Vig., 113; Strix 

 pralincola again near Troy, N. Y., 114; American Barn Owl {Strix prati>'cola\ on Long 

 Island, N.Y., 114; Coccyzus americanus breeding at Ottawa, 114; A New Name Necessary for 

 Selasphorus Jioresii Go\x\A., \\\\ Note on the Alleged Occurrence of Trochilus heloisa (less. 

 & De Latt.) within Noi-th American Limits, 115 ; Scenopoeetes dentirostris, 1 15; Amntodramtts 

 caudaculus nelsoni ^x\A A c. stibvirgattis in Connecticut, 115; Note on yunro hyemalis thttr- 

 Jf/-/ Anthony. 1 15; Black-throated Bunting (.,9/i/z(j americana) on Long Islai:d, N. Y., 1 16; 

 '^rceiMn^ n{ Dendroica maculosa in Wc%\.e.in Pennsylvania, 1 16; Correction, 116; The Mock- 

 ingbird at Springfield, Mass., 117; Note on Copsychusadamsi—Cor'ie.ct\on,\v']; Further Cape 

 Cod Notes, 117; Uncommon Birds for Nantucket Ishind, Mass., 120. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Dr. Ferdinand Krauss, 120; Henry Davis Minot, 121; Photographs 

 at the A. O. U. Meeting, 121 ; Address ol the Retiring President, 121; Amendments to the 

 By-Laws of the A. O. U.,121; Dr. Merriam's Explorations, 122; Proposed Studies of the 

 Falco sparverius Group and of Gallinago delicata, 123; An Investigation of the Genus Co- 

 laptes, 123; Ornithologists at the A. A. A. S., 124; Mr. D. H. Talbot's'Collections, 124; Mr.W. 

 E. D. Scott in Jamaica, 124; Change of Address of the Treasurer of the A. O. U., 124. 



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