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McChesnet, Charles E., notes on 

 some of the winter and early spring 

 birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota, 187. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus, 197, 225. 



" scolopaceus, 64. 



Magpie, 94, 194. 

 Mallard, 13, 198, 218. 

 Mareca americana, 198, 218. 



" pen elope, 190. 

 Martin, Bee, 215. 

 Black, 213. 

 Purple, 7, 143, 213. 

 Maynard, C. J., notice of his " Birds of 



Florida," 114. 

 Maxwell, Mrs. M. A., see Dartt, Mary. 

 Mearns, Edgar A., notes on some of the 

 less hardy winter residents in the Hud- 

 son River Valley, 33 ; a partial list 

 of the birds of Fort Klamath, Oregon, 

 161, 194. 

 Melanerpes ervthrocephalus, 11, 31, 36, 

 '146,216. 

 " I'herminieri, 229. 

 Meleagris americanus, 217. 

 " gallopavo, 147. 

 " gallopavo americanus, 12. 

 Melospiza fasciata fallax, 165. 

 " insignis, 159, 160. 



lincolni, 6, 143, 154. 

 " meloda, 8, 32, 34, 143, 155, 



160, 214. 

 " meloda gouldi, 1 57. 



meloda fallax, 156, 160. 

 " meloda guttata, 158, 160. 

 " meloda heei'manni, 157, 160. 

 " meloda mexicana, 158, 166. 

 " meloda rufina, 159, 160. 

 " meloda samuelis, 157, 160. 

 " palustris, 8, 32, 34, 143, 214. 

 Merganser, Tled-breasted, 226. 

 Mergulus alle, 228, 236, 244. 

 Mergus castor americanus, 198. 

 " cucullatus, 198. 

 " serrator, 198, 226. 

 Merriam, C. Hart, remarks on some of 

 the birds of Lewis County, Northern 

 New York, 1. 

 Merrill, J. C, notice of his "Notes on 

 the Ornithology of Southern Texas," 

 50. 

 Mici-opalama himantopus, 63. 

 Miller, Miss Fanny, strange story of a 



California bird, "l 09. 

 Mimus carolinensis, 32, 140, 171, 210. 



" polyglottus, 32, 64, 140, 210. 

 Mniotilta varia, 32, 141, 211, 234. 

 Mocking-Bird, 27, 32, 64, 140, 210. 

 " French, 214. 



" Mountain, 91. 



Molothrus feneus, 51. 



ater, 32, 145, 215. 

 " obscurus, 123. 



Motacilla flava, 53. 



" stapazina, 130. 



Myiadestes townsendi, 93. 

 Myiarchus cinerascens, 42. 



" crinitus, 10, 145, 215. 



" erythrocercus cooperi, 51. 



" sclateri, 229. 



Myiodioctes canadensis, 



" mitratus, 7, 117. 



" pusillus, 142. 



" pusillus pileolatus, 40, 164. 



Nauclerus furcatus, 210. 

 Neocorys spraguei, 50, 238. 

 Nettion carolinensis, 198. 

 Night-Hawk, 11, 31, 146. 



Western, 95, 195. 

 Nutcracker, Clarke's, 194. 

 Nuthatch, Brown-headed, 211. 

 Pigmy, 92, 163. 

 Ked-bellied, 141, 163, 211. 

 Slender-billed, 163. 

 White-bellied,32,61, 92, 141, 

 211. 

 Numcnius hudsonicus, 226. 



longirostris, 147, 197, 225. 

 Nyctale acadica, 85, 235. 



" albifrons, 85. 

 Nyctea nivea, 223. 

 Nyctherodias violaceus, 114, 124. 

 Nyctiardea grisea nacvia, 147, 226. 

 Nyctidromus albicoUis, 51. 

 OcEANiTES oceanica, 228. 

 QSdemia americana, 114. 

 " perspicillata, 226. 

 " velvetina, 128. 

 Oporornis agilis, 61, 186. 



formosa, 142, 212, 234, 236. 

 Oreoscoptes montanus, 91. 

 Oriole, Baltimore, 32, 145, 215. 



Orchard, 10, 145, 215. 

 Ortalida vetula, 51. 

 Orthorhynchus cristatus, 229. 

 Ortyx virginianus, 12, 147, 217, 229. 

 Osborne, S. D., on the coloration of 

 eggs, 23 ; another nest of the Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatcher {Empidonax Jlavi- 

 ventris), 240. 

 Osprey, American, 196. 

 Otus vulgaris wilsonianus, 195. 

 Ouzel, Water, 91. 

 Owl, Barn, 49, 61, 62. 

 " Barred, 31, 85, 146, 216. 

 " California Pygmy, 86. 

 " Great Horned, 85, 95, 146, 216. 

 " Long-eared, 85, 195. 

 " Mottled, 85. 

 " Saw-whet, 85. 

 " Screech, 146, 216. 

 " Short-eared, 19, 53, 83, 216, 223. 

 " Snowy, 111, 223. 

 " Western Great Horned, 195. 

 Pandion haliaetus, 96, 224. 



