viii Contents of Volninc V. 



{JEgialitis u-ihcrnn) on Long Island, 18G; Number of Eggs of Arden hero- 

 dias, 187; Tlie Little Brown Crane (Grus fraterculn^, Cassin), 187; Note 

 on Gvus frattr cuius of Cassin, 188; Bucephala ishindica and Bucephnla 

 ctanfjula, 189; The King JL'ider {So7nate7-in spectabilis) on the California 

 Coast, 189; Capture of the Glaucous Gull {Larus glnucus) on Long Island, 

 189; Occurrence of the Gannet {Sula bassann) in Northern New York, 190; 

 Capture of Leach's Petrel 160 Miles from the Sea, 190; The Winter Change 

 of Plumage in the Black Guillemot, 190; Notes on Birds of St. Louis, Mo., 

 191 ; Destruction of Birds by Drowning, 192. 



NUMBER IV. 



" BEHiNn THE Veil." By Br. Elliott dues, U. S. A 193 



Notes on the Northern Range of the Fish Crow {Corvus ossifrayus), 



WITH some Account of its Habits. By I^uis A. Zeregn . . . 20.5 

 Description of a New Warbler of the Genus Helminthophaga. Plate 



IV. By Frank W. Langdon 208 



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



By J. J. Dalgleish 210 



Description of the Eggs of the Caspian Tern (Sterna caspin). By 



Robert Ridgway 221 



Notes on Colorado Birds. By //. D. Minot 223 



RECENT LITERATURE. 

 Cooper on the Migrations and Nesting Habits of West-Coast Birds, 2.32 ; Lang- 

 don's Ornithological Field Notes, 2.'32; S earns's List of the Birds of Fishkill, 

 New York, 233; Harvie- Brown on the Effects of an unusuallj' severe Winter 

 upon Scottish Birds, 233; Rathbun's "Bright Feathers," 234; Marsh's 

 Palieornithology, 234 ; Cory's "Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World," 



236. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A New Bird {PoUoptila cwrulea) for Maine, 236; Capture of the Carolina Wren 

 and other Rare Birds in Rhode Island, 237 ; Note on Flelminthophnga cin- 

 cinnatiensis, Langdon. 237; Nest of Dendracit ccerulesrens, (L.)Bd.,238; 

 Note on Giraud's Muscicapa "■ bi-asteri," 2-38; Additional Notes concerning 

 the Black-capped Vireo in Texas, 239 ; The Philadelphia Vireo in Eastern New 

 York, 239 ; Unusual Nesting site of the Snowbird, 239; Capture of a South 

 American Finch near Providence, R. I., 240; Corvus ossifrngus on Long and 

 Staten Islands, N.Y., 240; Nest and Eggs of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 

 (Enipidonax Jloviventris), 241 ; Notes on Nesting-sites of the Golden-winged 

 Woodpecker, 241; Capture of the Avocet in New Brunswick, 241; The 

 Northern Phalarope in Chester County, South Carolina, 242; The Purple 

 Gallinule in New England, 242; Colymbus septentrionalis again on the Hud- 

 son, 242. 



INDEX 243 



PLATES IN VOLUME V. 



III. Osteology of Speotyto cunicularia hypog^a. 



IV. Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis. 



