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Index. 



Plover, European Ring-necked, 109. 

 Field, 149. 

 Killdeer, 18, 144. 

 Kinged, 91. 

 Wilson's, 18.5. 

 Upland, 18, 181. 

 Podiceps californicus, 88. 

 dominicus. 91. 

 holbolli, 220. 

 Polioptila c.-erulea, 47, 108, 236. 

 PoocjEtes, 97. 

 Pooecetes gramineus, 27, 97. 



gramiiieiis confinis, 14. 

 Poospiza belli, .56. 

 Porpiiyrio martinicus, 169, 242. 

 Porzana Carolina, 19, 211. 



jamaicensis, 60, 117. 

 Procellaria wilsoni, 217. 

 Progne dominicensis, 166. 



purpurea, 14, 98, 192. 

 rnbis, 98. 

 Protonotaria citrea, 32, 115. 

 Pseudocolaptes lawreneii, 42. 

 Pseudogrypluis, 79. 



calit'ornianus, 82. 

 Ptychorhaniphus aleuticus, 126. 

 Puffin, Common, 33, 126. 

 Horned, 33, 35. 

 Large-billed, 30. 

 Tufted, 35. 

 Puffinus auduboni, 178. 



griseus, 218. 

 Purdie, H. A., Corvus osslfrarjns on 

 Long and Staten Islands, N. Y., 

 240; the Purple Gallinule in New 

 England, 242. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana, 228. 



rubra, 27. 

 Pyrgita inontana, 121, 191. 

 QuERQUEDULA carolincnsis, 213. 

 crecca, 30. 

 cyanoptera, 181. 

 dlscors, 19, 213. 

 Quiscalus a^neus, 40. 

 lugubris, 166. 

 luminosus, 166, 

 major, 44. 



purpureus asneus, 15. 

 Eagsdale, G. H., additional notes 

 concerning the Black-capped Vireo 

 in Texas, 239. 

 Rail, Black, 61, 117. 



Carolina, 19, 192, 211. 

 Clapper, 140. 

 Rallus crassirostris, 140. 

 crepitans, 140. 

 elegans, 138. 

 elegans obsoletus, 139. 

 elegans tenuirostris, 139. 

 giganteus, 38. 

 longirostris, 140. 

 longirostris caribseus, 140. 



Rallus longirostris crepitans, 140. 

 longirostris saturatus, 140. 

 obsoletus, 124, 139. 

 virginianus, 140. 



Riithbun, E. R., notice of his " Bright 

 Feathers," 234. 



Raven, 28. 



Recurvirostra americana, 109, 241. 



Redpoll, 27, 75. 



Redstart, 50, 228. 



Rcgulus calendula, 69, 225. 



Riiamphocinclus brachyurus, 166. 



Rhinou'ryphus, 78. 



Rhudinociclila rosea schistacea, 41. 



lihodopei'liys phrcnicoptera, 97. 



Rhyac()j)hilus solitarius, 169. 



llhynchophanes maccowni, 97. 



Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha, 88. 



Kicigway, Robert, on six species of 

 l)irds new to the fauna of Illinois, 

 with notes on other rare Illinois 

 birds, 30 ; on current objectionable 

 names of North American birds, 36 ; 

 notice of his papers on the genera 

 Scops and Tijrannus, 41 ; note on 

 Penccen illinomftis, 52 ; late breeding 

 of the Blue Grosbeak, 53 ; description 

 of an unusual (?) plumage of Buteo 

 hnrlani, 58; notes on the American 

 Vultures {Sarcorhamp/adn?.), with 

 special reference to their generic no- 

 menclature, 77 ; description of the 

 adult plumage of Hierofaico qtp-fiilro 

 ohaoli'tiis, 92 ; the Northern Waxwing 

 {Am/ie/is f/amdus) in Southern Illi- 

 nois, 118; note on the Green Finch 

 (Lupirinus chloris) in Northern New 

 York, 119; on the supposed identity 

 of Ardea occidentalis, And., and A. 

 ivurdemnnni, Baird, 122; on the 

 moult of the bill, or parts of its cov- 

 ering, in certain Alcidce, 126; on 

 Rallus longirostris, Bodd., and its geo- 

 graphical races, 138 ; on Macrorham- 

 phus (jriseus (Gmel.) and M. scolo- 

 paceus (Say), 157 ; on a new Ala.skan 

 Sandpiper, 160 ; notice of his " Revis- 

 ion of Nomenclature of North Amer- 

 ican Birds," 177 ; Scops flnmmeola in 

 Colorado, 1 85 ; the Little Brown 

 Crane (Grus fraterculus), 187; de- 

 scription of the Eggs of the Caspian 

 Tern (Sterna caspia), 221 ; note on 

 Helminthophaqa cincinnatiensis, 237. 



Rissa najvia, 88. 



septentrionalis, 88. 



Roberts, T. S., breeding of FulignJa 

 collnris in South-eastern Minnesota, 

 with a description of its nest and 

 eggs, 61 ; notice of his paper on 

 " Convolutions of the Trachea in the 

 Sandhill and Whooping Cranes," 179. 



