Contents of Volume IV. 



Blackbird of Texas and Arizona ( Afolothrtis vbsciir us ), 12S. — A Spotted 

 Eg£f of Empidonax minimus, 124. — Additional Captures of the Curlew Sand- 

 piper in New England, 124; A Second Specimen of the Yellow-crowned 

 Night Heron {Nyctinrdea violocea) in Massachusetts, 124. — Additional 

 Notes on the Whistling Swan ( Cyfjnus nmericanus) in New England, 12.5. — 

 Occurrence of Ross's Goose {Anser roxui) on the Pacific Coast and Inland, 

 126. — Note on Buceplmln islaruUca, 120. — Notes on the Sea-Birds of the 

 Grand Banks, 127. 



NUMBER III. 



On the r.sK OF Trinomials in Zoological Nomenclatire. By R«herf 



Ridginay 129 



Remarks upon Turdus pnllnsi and its Varieties. By //. H'. Henshnw 134 



Notes on Birds observed during the Spring Mkjration in Western 



Missouri. By IV. K. D. Scott 139 



The Rocky Mountain (Ioldes-eye {Bucephnla islnndica). By T. M. 



Brewer ............. 148 



Notes on some Minnesota Birds. By T. S. Robert,^ 152 



Melospiza .meloda and its Allies. By //. IV. Ilenshaw .... 155 

 A Partial List of the Birds of EoRt Klamath, Oregon, collectBd 

 BY Lieutenant Willis Wittich, U. S. A., with Annotations and 

 Additions by the Collector. By Edgar A. Mtarns .... 161 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Belding and Ridgway's Birds of Central California, 167. — Cory on the Birds 

 of the Magdalen Islands, 171. — Roosevelt's Notes on some of the Birds of 

 Oyster Bay, Long Island, 171. — IngersoU's Xests and Eggs of American 

 Birds, 172. — A Revised List of Birds of Central New York, 172. — Hallnck's 

 Sportsman's Gazetteer, 175. — Coues's Bibliography of Ornithology, 175. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Odd Behavior of a Robin and a Yellow Warbler, 178. — The Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher and Sanderling in Minnesota, 182. — Nest and Eggs of the Gray Tit- 

 mouse (Lophophnnes inornnius), 182. — Nesting of Cei-ltiia familinn's, 183. 

 The Carolina Wren ( Thryothorus ludovicianus) breeding in New York, 183. 

 — The Great Carolina Wren breeding on Long Island, 184. — Record of 

 Additional Specimens of the White-throated Warbler (Helminthophn ga leuco- 

 bronchiidis), 184. — Additional Capture of the Cffirulean Warbler in New 

 England, 185. —Another Kirtland's Warbler (Deiulrmca kirtlandi), 185.— 

 Correction, 186. — Rare Birds in Michigan, 186. —The Loggerhead Shrike 

 breeding in Maine, 186. — Notes on some of the Winter and Early Spring 

 Birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakotn, 187. — Captme of a third Specimen of the 

 Flammulated Owl {Scops pimmeoln) in the United States, and first Dis- 

 covery of its Nest, 188. — MacFarlane's Gerfalcon (Falco gyrfalco sacer) in 

 Maine, 188. — Nesting of Buteo zonocercus in New Mexico, 189; Capture of 

 the Golden Eagle at Gravesend, L. I., 189. — The Eggs of the Curlew 

 Sandpiper {Tringa subarquafn), 190. —Capture of the European Widgeon 

 in North Carolina, 190. — Bonaparte's Gull in Kansas, 190. —The Booby 

 Gannet (Sulafber) in Massachusetts, 191; A Word in Defence, 191. 



