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CONTENTS. 



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JuNii Birds of Caesar's Head, South Carolina. By Leveretl AT. Loomis. . . . ^25 



I^isT OF Birds collected on the Bahama Islands by the Naturalists of the Fish 



Commission Steamer 'Aluatross'. KKy Robert Ridgiuay 33^ 



.Fire-lighting.' By George H. Mackay 3^0 



A Revision of the Species of Molothrus allied to M.bonariensis (Gm.). By Witmer 



Stone ..............!.,. 34^ 



Descriptions of New Birds from the Bahama Islands, with Remarks on the 



Species of Speotyio which occur in the West Indies. By Charles B. Cory. . 348 



I^iST OF the Birds obtained by Mr. C. S. Winch on the Islands of Great Bahama 

 and Abaco, Bahama Islands, during June, and on Eleuthera in July, 1891. 

 By Charles B. Cory. . . 350 



List of Birds collected on the Island of Inagwa, Bahama Islands, from 



Ma.y 1 TO July 10, 1891. By Charles B. Cory 351 



On a Collection of Birds made on the Islands of Anguilla and Cay Sal or Salt 

 Cay, Bahama Islands, by Mr. Cyrus S. Winch, during May, 1S91. By Charles 

 B. Cory ; 3SJ 



Observations C'N THE Birds OF Jamaica, West Indies. II. A List of Tire; Birds 



recorded from THE Island, with Annotations. By W. E.D.Scott. . . 353 



Tertiary Fossils OF North American Birds. By R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. . . . 365 



The Carolina Parocujet (Cfl««rK,? f<j/-oi<¥V/^w5K<r). By Edwin M. Hasbroudc. . , 369 



I^CENT Literature. — Sharpc's Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds, 379; Hornadav's 

 Handbook of Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, 3S1 ; Butler's Birds of Indiana, 3S3 ; 

 Colburn and Morris's 'Birds of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts,' 384; Merriam's 

 List of Birds observed in Idaho, 385; Maynurd's 'Contributions to Science', 385; Minor Or- 

 nithological Publications, 3S7; Publications Received, 392. 



General Notes.— The Ycllowlegs {Totanus flavlpes) Breeding in Ontario County, N. Y., 394; 

 The Turkey Vulture i^Cathartes aura) in Ontaivo County, N. Y., 394; An Abnormal Specimen 

 of Coccyzus maynardi, 394; Further notes on Otocoris alpestris praticola,y)y. The English 

 Sparrow {Passer domesticits) in Nassau, N. P., J95; Former Occurrence of Spiza americana 

 in Northern New Jersey, 395; An Abnormal Specimen of the Nonpareil (Passerina cirts), 395 ; 

 The Cedar Waxvving and American Dipj)cr in Ci)sta Rica, 395; Another Massachusetts Record 

 for the Mockingbird, 395; Geothlypis Philadelphia Breeding in Western New York, 396; 

 Breeding of the Mourning Warbler in Ontario County, N. Y., 396; Yellow PaMii WarblfcT 

 (Deiidroica palmaritm hypockrysea), 39'5; Bird Notes from Clatrop County, Oregrm, 396; 

 Notes on the Mniotiltidai of Western Pennsylvania, 397; Note regarding the Islands of 

 Maraguana and Samana, Bahamas, 399. 



Notes and News. — The Frontispiece, 400; Obituary, John I. Northrop, 400; August von Pclxeln, 

 400; Nmth Congress of the A. O. U., 433; SecoaJ Internationil O.nithologicil Congress, 401 ; 

 A New Manual of North American Birds, 401 ; Ornithological Exploration, 402; A Qiiery 

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