CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Remarks on Some of the Birds of Lewis <.'<>unty, Xoktiiehn New- 

 York. By C. Hart Merriam ...'...... 1 



A List of Birds observed at Coosada, (Jenthai, Alahama. By Nathan 



Clifford Brown 7 



The Terns of the Neav England Coast. By William Brcirster . 13 



On the Coloration of Eggs. By S. D. Osborne . . . ■ .23 



Nest and Eggs of the Cerulean Warbler. By ./. A. Alien ... 25 

 Additional Cases of Albinism and Melanism in North American 



Birds. V>y Ruthven Deane . . ...... .27 



List of Birds observed in the Naval Hospital Grounds, in Brook- 

 lyn City. By Georr/e Hufjhes Coues 31 



Notes on Some of the less hardy Winter Residents ok the Hudson 



River Valley. By Edf/nr A. Menrns 33 



Breeding of the Winter Wren at Houlton, Me. By Ruthven Denne . 37 

 Descriptions of the First Plumage in Various Species of North 



American Birds. By [Villiam Brewster . . • • • .39 



Notes on the Habits and Distribution ok the Rufous-crowned 



Sparrow (Peucmnruficepx). By William Brewster 47 



RE(n?.NT LITEPATITRK 



Lawrence and Ober on the Birds of Domin'ca and St. Vincent, 48; Coues's 

 Field-Notes on Birds observed along the Forty-ninth Parallel, 49; INIerrill's 

 Notes on the Ornithology of Southern Texas, 50; .Tones and Shnlze's Illus- 

 trat'ons of the Nests and Kggs of the Birds of Oliio, 52; Adams's Notes on 

 the Birds of Alaska, 52; Wilson and Bonaparte's American Ornithology, 

 53; Coues's Birds of the Colorado Valley, 54. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Kirtland's Warbler again in Ohio, 58. — Vireo ntricapillus in Texas, 58. — Some 

 Light on the History of a Rare Bird, 59. — Occurrence of the Western 

 Variety of the Yellow Red-poll Warbler in Massachusetts, 60. —The Golden- 

 cheeked Warbler and Black-chinned Humming-Bird in Texas, 60. — Cap- 

 ture of two Rare Birds at Riverdale, N. Y.,60. — The White-bellied Nut- 

 hatch concealing Food, 61. —The Great Carolina Wren (Thryothorus 

 ludovicianus) in Connecticut, 61. — Occurrence of several Rare Birds near 

 Sing Sing, N. Y.,61. — Occurrence of Birds rare to the Vicinity of Colum- 



