Co ut cuts of Volume VI. 



NUMBER II. 



Notes on Some Birds from Arizona and New Mexico, with a 

 Description of a supposed New Whip-poor-will. By Wil- 

 liam Bretvstcr . . ....... 65 



Remarks on the present State of the Systema Avium. By 



P. L. Sclatcr 73 



Description of a New Species of the Family Procellariidce. 



By Charles B. Cory 84 



Field Notes on the Birds of San Juan County, Colorado. By 



Frank M. Drew S5 



Critical Notes on a Petrel new to North America. By 



William Brewster .......... 91 



Some Observations on the Migration of Birds. By W. E. D. 



Scott 97 



On the Affinities of certain Polioptilce, with a Description 



of A New Species. By William Bre-vster .... roi 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Vogt on the Second fossil Archceopteryx, 107; Nehrling's Ornitholog- 

 ical Observations in Texas, 109; Shufeldt's Osteologieal Memoirs. 

 109; Forbes on the Food of Birds. Insects, and Fishes, no; 

 Reichenow and Schalow's Record of the Literature of Ornith- 

 ology for 1S79, JII > Reichenow and Schallow's Compendium of 

 newly described Genera and Special of Birds, in; Cory's " Beau- 

 tiful and Curious Birds of the World," in ; Minor Ornithological 

 Papers, 1 12. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Abundance of the Hermit Thrush in winter near Washington. D. C, 

 113; The Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts, 114; On the 

 Range of Lophophanes atrocristatus in Texas, 114; The Con- 

 necticut Warbler {Oporornis agilis) — a Correction, 114; Strange 

 nesting habits of a pair of Chats, 114: Song of the White-bellied 

 Swallow (fridoprocne tricolor), 115; The White-bellied Swallow 

 (Tachycineta bicolor) on the New Jersey Coast in November 115; 

 A New Bird {Plectrophanes pictus) for South Carolina, 115, The 

 Ipswich Sparrow (Passerculus princeps) at Squan Beach, New 

 Jersey. 116; Note on the Field Sparrow (Spizella p/tsilla)* 116; 

 Bell's Finch {Poospiza belli nevadensis) in New Mexico, 116; 

 Peculiar Nidification of the Bobolink. 117: Southern Range of 

 the Raven on the Atlantic Coast of the United States, 118; The 

 White-necked Raven {Corvus cryptoleucus) in New Mexico, 118; 

 Remarkable Persistency in Nesting of the Western Yellow-bellied 

 Flvcatcher, 119; Notes on the Black-backed Three-toed Wood- 

 pecker and Canada Jay, 119; Capture of the Red-bellied Wood- 

 pecker (Centurus carolinus) in Eastern Massachusetts, 120; Novel 

 Nesting-sites of Woodpeckers {Colaptes auratus) and Melan- 

 erpes erythrocephalus), 120; An Unaccountable Migration of the 

 Red-headed Woodpecker, 120; Breeding of the Wild Pigeon in 

 confinement, 122; Large Eagles, 122; Eagles attempting the 

 rescue of a wounded companion, 122; Richardson's Owl in Rhode 

 Island. 123; The Avocet (Recuroirostra americana) in Massa- 



