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INDEX. 



Coturniculus lecontei, 40. 



" passerinus, 73, 92. 



Cotyle riparia, 21, 96. 

 " serripennis, 9. 



Coues, Elliott, on the tarsal enve- 

 lope in Campylorhynchus and allied 

 genera, 50 ; on the number of 

 primaries in Oscines, 60 ; on a pe- 

 culiar nesting-site of the Bank- 

 Swallow, 96. 



Crane, Brown, 53, 58. 

 " Whooping, 53, 58. 



Crow, Clark's, 44. 



" Common, 22, 53, 54, 72, 76. 

 " Fish, 19, 25, 72. 



Cupidonia cupido, 22, 53, 56, 73. 



Cyanurus cristatus, 22. 



Cygnus americanus, 53, 58, 73. 



Deane, Ruthven, on albinism and 

 melanism in North American birds, 

 20 ; on the Philadelphia Vireo in 

 New England, 74 ; on geographi- 

 cal variation in Dendrceca palma- 

 rum, 82. 



Dendrceca caerulescens, 11. 

 " castanea, 21. 

 " coronata, 21. 

 u discolor, 25. 

 " palmar um, 81. 

 " " var. hypochrysea, 85. 



" " var. palmarum, 84. 



Dolichonyx oryzivora, 23. 



Duck, Barrow's Golden-eye, 41. 

 " Eider, 41. 

 " King Eider, 41. 

 " Pintail, 44. 

 " Surf, 41. 



Ducks, former abundance of, in Mas- 

 sachusetts, 60. 



Ectopistes migratorius, 22, 54, 56, 

 73. 



Egret, Little White, 27. 

 " Reddish, 40. 



Embernagra rufivirgata, 89. 



Etnpidonax acadicus, 14. 

 " traillii, 14. 75. 



Euspiza americana, 73. 



Extinct birds with teeth, 49. 



" Field and Forest," notice of, 

 71. 



Finch, Bachman's, 42. 

 " Seaside, 25. 

 " Western Sharp-tailed, 40. 



Fleet, W. Van, on the Rough- winged 

 Swallow in Pennsylvania, 9. 



Florida coerulea, 73. 



Flycatcher, Acadian, 14. 



" Great-crested, 95. 



" Traill's, 14, 75. 



Frazer, A. M., on intelligence of a 



Crow, 76. 

 Fulica americana, 73. 

 Fuligula affinis, 23. 



" vallisneria, 23. 

 Fulmarus glacialis, 23. 

 Gallinago wilsoni, 23. 

 Gallinula galeata, 73. 

 Geese, former abundance of, in Mas- 

 sachusetts, 59. 

 Gelochelidon aranea, 73. 

 Gentry, T. G., his " Life-Histories of 



Birds," notice of, 49. 

 Geographical variation in birds' eggs, 



74. 

 Geographical variation in Dendrceca 



palmarum, 81. 

 Geothlypis Philadelphia, 23, 92. 

 Goose, Canada, breeding in trees, 50. 



" Ross's, 52. 



" Snow, 59. 



" White-fronted, 41. 

 Graculus dilophus var. floridanus, 44. 

 Grakle, Purple, 22, 53. 

 Grouse, Pinnated, 53, 56. 

 Grus americanus, 53, 58. 



" canadensis, 53, 58. 

 Gull, Herring, 41. 



" Laughing, 27. 



" Sabine's, 41. 



" White-winged, 41. 

 HiEMATOPUS palliatus, 26. 

 Harelda glacialis, 44. 

 Hawk, European Buzzard, 2, 32. 



" Fish, 25. 



" Swainson's, 42. 



" Western Red-tailed, 40. 

 Helminthophaga celata, 94. 



" chrysoptera, 6, 73, 



92. 

 " leucobronchialis, 1. 



" pinus, 73. 



Helmitherus vermivorus, 73. 

 Henshaw, H. W., on Empidonax 



traillii and E. acadicus, 14 ; report 



of, on the ornithology of Wheeler's 



Surveys, 70. 

 Herod ias egretta, 73. 

 Heron, Great Blue, 27. 



" Green, 27. 



Little White, 27. 



" Yellow-crowned Night, 43. 

 Hierofalco islandicus, 73. 



