iv CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



NUMBER III. 



Dkscription of a New Species of Humming-Bird from California. 



Bv //. \V. Ilenshaw 53 



The iSiiiOs of Guadaloupe Island discussed with reference to the 



PRESENT Genesis of Species. By Robert Ridgway .... 58 



An Undescribed Hybrid between two North American Grouse. 



By William Brewster 60 



RKCENT LITERATURE. 



Nelson's " Birds of Northeastern Illinois," 68. — Salvin on the Procellariidm, 69. 

 — Catiilogue of the Birds of the Islands of Malta and Gozo, 70. — Ridgway's 

 " Studies of the American Falcuiiida;'' 70. — Recent Ornitliological Articles 

 in American Journals, 73. — Californian Ornithology, 76. — McCauley's 

 "Notes on Texan Ornithology," 76. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Nest and Eggs of Towosend's Flycatcher, 77. — Persistency at Nest-Building in a 

 House- Wren, 78. — A New' Bird to Massachusetts, 78. — A New Form of 

 Surnia to New England, 78. — Capture of the Philadelphia Vireo in New 

 Hampshire, 78. — Occurrence of P((sserculus princeps in New York, 78. — 

 The Pigeon-Hawk (Falco cohimhnrius) at Sea, 79. — Capture of a Second 

 Specimen of Helminthophac/a leurvbrvnrJiialis, 79. — The Mottled Owl as a 

 Fisherman, 80.— Breeding of Leach's Petrel on the Coast of Maine, SO. — 

 Nest and P>ges of the Alaskan Wren, 82. — Junco wef/omis in Illinois, 82. — 

 Leptoptila alhifrons. a Pigeon new to tlie Unite 1 States Fauna, 82. — Mtlo- 

 pelia leucoptera in Colorado, 83. — The Rntf and the Purple GaDinule in Ohio, 

 83. — Notes on Nyctale acadica, 83. — Probable Breeding of the Saw-Whet 

 Owl in Massachusetts, 84. 



NUMr>p:R IV. 



Notes on Molothrus ^neus. By J. C. Merrill, Assist. Surg., U. S. A. 

 On Seventy-five doubtful West-Coast Birds. By J. G. Cooper, M. D. 

 Remarks on Selasphorus ali.eni, Henshaw. By D. G. Elliot . 

 The Yellow-throated Warblek (Dendroeca dominica). By William 

 Brewster ............. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



D'Hamonville's Enumeration of the Birds of Europe, 106. — Merriam's " Revisw 

 of the Birds of Connecticut," 107. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Note on Doricha enicura, 108. — Occurrence of the Black Vulture or Carrion 

 Crow in Ohio, 109. — Occurrence of the Western Nonpareil and Merlandier's 

 Wren at Fort Brown, Texas, 109. — A Cuckoo's Egg in a Cedar-Bird's 

 Nest, 110. — Occurrence for the first Time in England of the Robin 

 {Tardus niujratorius), 110. 



