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man. In the March nuinher, Dr. W. Wood writes of the "Game Falcons 

 of New England : the Goshawk" (pp. 132-135); J. A. Allen appears 

 with a further note on Bartramian names (pp. 176, 177), and E. E. C. 

 Stearns speaks of the abmidance of Pelicans in San Francisco Bay, Cal. 

 (p. 177). In the April number are notes on the breeding of the Red 

 Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) at Riverdale, N. Y. (p. 237), by E. A. Bick- 

 nell ; on Bewick's Wren in New Jersey (p. 236 j, by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; on 

 "Habits of Western Birds," — Buteo sioainsoni, Icterus biillocJci, Stellula 

 caliope, Corvus americanus, and C. corax, — (p. 238), by Dr. W. J. Hoff- 

 man ; on " Unusual Nesting-Sites of the Night- Hawk and Towhee Bimt- 

 ing (p. 239), by Dr. Elliott Coues ; and on " Small Birds [CJirysomitris 

 tristis and Dendrosca coro7iata] caught by the Burdock " (p. 239), by A. K. 

 Fisher. The May number contains a call for information respecting the 

 distribution of the Labrador Duck, Camptolcemus labradorius (p. 303), by 

 Dr. Coues. In the June nunrber is a record of the capture of the Euro- 

 pean Woodcock in Virginia (p. 372), and a note on change of habits in the 

 Bank Swallow (p. 373), by Dr. Coues ; also remarks on the food of the 

 Chapparal Cock, Geococcyx californianus (p. 373), by V. T. Chambers. In 

 the July number J. Clarence Hersey notes the occurrence of the Little 

 White Egret (Ardea candidissima) in Colorado (p. 430). The August num- 

 ber contains an account of a brief sojourn of large numbers of Wliite Egrets 

 at Trenton, N. J. (pp. 469 - 473), by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; Robert Ridgway here 

 states that the Bank Swallows (p. 493) referred to in the June number are 

 the Cohjle serripennis, instead of C. riparia, as first stated. In the September 

 number appears an historical article on " Progress of Ornithology, in the 

 United States during the Last Century " (pp. 536 - 550), by J. A. Allen, and 

 a note on Bluebirds feeding on the berries of the Virginia Creeper (p. 556), 

 by Henry Gillman. The October number contains a note on the egg of 

 Chionis (p. 628), by Dr. J. H. Kidder. An article in the December num- 

 ber, by Dr. Elliott Coues, on the " Destruction of Birds by Telegraph 

 Wire" (pp. 734-736), concludes the ornithological articles of Volume X. 

 In Volume XI we find, in the January number, "Notes on some Ore- 

 gon Birds " (p. 44), — seven species, — by George R. Bacon, and a note on 

 the Whistling Duck, Bucephala americana (p. 44), by J. F. LeBaron. In 

 the February number, notes on some of the birds of the Fanning Islands 

 (pp. 68 - 72), by Dr. T. H. Streets ; in the April number, record of the occur- 

 rence of the Raven and the Sooty Tern (Sterna fuliginosa) at Williams- 

 town, Mass. (p. 243), by Sanborn Tenney ; in the May number, " Glimpses 

 of Mind in Birds " (pp. 276 - 286), by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; some observa- 

 tions on the winter birds of Arkansas (p. 307), by H. S. Reynolds ; and a 

 note on a carnivorous propensity of the Red-headed Woodpecker, Mela- 

 nerpes erytliroceplialus (p. 308), by Charles Aldrich. In the June number 

 Judge J. D. Cat on writes of the " Wild Turkey and its Domestication " 

 (pp. 321-330). 



