Contents of Volume V. vii 



the Snowbird {Jiinco hyemalig) in the INIountains of Pennsylvania, 121 ; 

 The Flammulated Owl (Scops Jlamnievla) in Colorado, 121; Capture of the 

 Great Gra)' Owl in the Adirondacks, N.Y., 122; Capture of the Northern 

 Phalarope (Lobipes hyperboreiis) in Massachusetts, 122; On the Supposed 

 Identity of Ardea occidentnlis, Aud., and A. wurdenianni, Bd., 122 : The 

 Little Blue Heron in Rhode Island, 123; Note on the Little Brown Crane 

 ( Grusfraterculus, Cassin), 123 ; Notes on the Habits of Rallus obsoletvs, with 

 a Description of its Eggs, 124; An Unusual Flight of Whistling Swans in 

 Northwestern Pennsj'lvania, 125; The European Widgeon in the United 

 States, 126; On the Moult of the Bill, or Parts of its Covering, in Certain 

 Alcidce, 126; Further Light on the Moult of the Bill in certain Munnonidas, 

 127. 



NUMBER III. 



Shufeldt's MEJtoiR ON THE OSTEOLOGY OF Speotyto cunicularia hypogcen. 



Bv Dr. Elliott Couts, U. S. A 129 



Destkuctiox of Biros by Light houses. By ./. A. Allen . . . 131 

 On Rillus longlrostris, Bouo., and its Geographical Races. By Robert 



Ridijway ............. 138 



List of Occurrences of North American Birds in Europe. Part II. 



By /. J. Dalgleish Ul 



Origin of the Instinct of Migration in Birds. B3' J. A. Allen . . 151 

 The Greater Long-beak, Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say). By Neicbold 



T. Lawrence ............ 154 



On Macrorhamphus grheus (Gmel. ) and M. scolopaceus (Say). Hy Robert 



Ridgway ............. 157 



On a new Alaskan Sandpiper. By R^ibert Ridgiuay .... 160 



List of the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. By 



J. A. Allen 163 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Maynard's Birds of Eastern North America, 170; Gregg's Birds of Chemung 

 County, N.Y., 173; Freke on Birds common to Europe and North America, 

 173; Braj'ton's Catalogue of the Birds of Indiana, 174; ]\learns's Birds of 

 the Hudson Highlands, 175; Harvie-Brown and Cordeaux's Report on the 

 Migration of Birds, 175 ; Ridgway on the Nomenclature of North American 

 Birds, 177 ; Gentry's Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Pennsylvania, 179 ; 

 Ober's Camps in the Caribbees, 179; Roberts on the Convolutions of the 

 Trachea in the Sand-hill and Whooping Cranes, 179 ; Minor Ornithological 

 Publications, 180. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Nest and Eggs of Catherpes mexicanus conspersus, 181 ; Dendrmca palmarum 

 palmarum in New York, 1?2; The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendrceca 

 coronata) breeding in Eastern ^Maryland, 182; Notes and Queries on Nomen- 

 clature of Birds, Genus Wilsonia,\9>^\ Albinism in the Bohemian Wax- 

 wing, 183; First Capture of the Blue Grosbeak in Massachusetts, 184; Note 

 on the Nesting of Hammond's YXycAtcher {Empidonax hnmmondi)\nTia.- 

 kota, 184; Scops flammeola in Colorado, 185; An Owl-eating Owl, 185; 

 Protection of the Nest by a Marsh Hawk (Circus cyaneus hudsonius), 185; 

 Note on the Nesting of the Fish-Hawk in Maine, 180 ; Wilson's Plover 



