CONTENTS. 



I'AGE 



Notes on the Bihds of the Lower Suwanee River. By William Brewster and 



Frank M. Chapman 125 



Desckiptions of Seven Supposed New North American Birds. By William 



Brewster 139 



Notes on Bachman's Wkkbi^kr {Helminihof>hila bacttmani). ^y William Brewster . 149 

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



Annotations by Frank M. Chapman 158 



Summer Birds of the Bras d'Or Region ok Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. 



By Francis H. Allen 164 



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



By Leverett M. Loomis 167 



The Present Status op the Ivory-billed Woodpecker {Campephilus principalis). 



By Edwin AT. Hashrouck 174 



Notes on Some Species ok Birds of the Island of Cuba. By Dr. John GunJlach. 1S7 

 Description of a Supposed New Myrmeciza. By George K. Cherrie . . . 191 



Bird Waves and their Graphic Representation. By Witmer Stone . . . 194 



The Labrador Duck: — A List of the Extant Specimens in North America, 



WITH Some Historical Notes. By William Dutcher 201 



Description of a New Species of Mimocichla, from the Island of Dominica, West 



Indies. By y. A. Allen 217 



Some Bird Skeletons from Guadalupe Island. By Frederic A. Lucas . . . 21S 



Recent Literature. — The Ornithology of ' The Century Dictionary,' 222; Chapman on a Col- 

 lection of Birds from British Columbia, 224; Magerup and Chamberlain's Birds of '"ireenland ; 

 226; Nichol.son's Translation of Sundevall's ' Tentamen,' 227; Goss's 'History of the Birds of 

 Kansas,' 22S; A Forgotten Volume, 230; Publications Received, 230. 



General Notes. — A Breeding Place of Pelecaiius fusctis, 231 ; The Whistling Swan in Massa- 

 chusetts, 232; The Green Vicrnn {Ardea virescens) "Wintering in South Carolina, 232; Some 

 Rookeries on the Gulf Coast of Florida, 233; Migration of the Red Plialarope {Crymophilus 

 Jiilicaritis), 2},},; Breeding of Totanus sol itar ins and Otocoris alpestris praticola in Western 

 Pennsylvania, 236; Falco islatidiciis L. in Labrador, 236; Protective Coloration in the Genus 

 ^g i aim s, 2:^6; A Peculiar Character Referable to the Base of the Skull in Pandioti, 2T,b; 

 Megascops asio macfarlanei — a Correction, 237; Scott's Oriole {Icterus parisorum) in Central 

 New Mexico, 237 ; Scott's Oriole in California, 23S; Nesting of the Cerulean Warbler rZ)«2- 

 droica ccerulea) \n Beaver County, Pennsylvannia, 238 ; Marian's Marsh Wren ( C/.^/o/Z/orw.? 

 mariance) on the Coast of South Carolina, 239; The Bluebird Wintering near Boston, 239; 

 Notes on the Occurrence of Uncommon Species at Beaver, Pa., 240; Cistothorus mariancE.Biiteo 

 lineattis alleni, and Syrnium nebulosum alleni in South Carolina, 240. 



Correspondence. — Camera Notes for Ornithologists, 240; Work of the Delaware Valley Ornitho- 

 logical Club during 1S90, 244. 



Notes and News. — Obituary, Colonel N. S. Goss, 245; New Ornithological Journals, 247 : Call 

 for further Material for an Investigation of the Sparrow Hawks, 24S; A Proposed Investigation 

 of the Bronxed, Purple, and Florida Grackles, 34S. 



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