Contents of J r olume I I. 



chusetts, 123; The Whistling Swan in Massachusetts, 123; The 

 Harlequin Duck and the Glossy and Wood Ibises in Southern 

 Illinois, 124; The White-winged Gull {Larus leucopterus) in 

 Massachusetts, 124; The Caspian Tern in California, 124; The 

 Short-tailed Tern {Hydrochelidon nigra) in New England, 124; 

 Notes on Leach's Petrel (Cymochorea leucorr&oa), 125; Birds 

 and Windows, 125; Notes on Birds Rare or accidental on Long 

 Island, N. Y., 125; Distribution of Birds as influenced by in- 

 crease of Water Area, 126; Supplementary List of Birds of the 

 Island of Santa Lucia, W. I., 12S; Winter Birds of Fort Walla 

 Walla, W. T., 12S. 



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NUMBER III. 



Description of Four New Species of Haitian Birds. {Plate 



I.) By Charles B. Cory . . . . . . . .129 



Habits of the Black Brant in the Vicinity of St. Michaels, 



Alaska. By E. W. Nelson 



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



By Frank M. Drew 13S 



Breeding of the Acadian Owl {Nyctale acad/ca) in Masschu- 



setts. By William Brexvster ....... 143 



Songs of the Western Meadow Lark {Stumella neglecta). By 



Charles JV. Allen. .......... 14^ 



List of the Birds of Hayti, taken in Different Parts of 



the Island between January i and March 12, 1S81. By 



Charles B. Cory . . . . . . . . . . i£;i 



On the Number of Primaries in Birds. By J. Amory Jeffries . 156 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Ridgway's Nomenclature of North American Birds, 164; Ridgwav's 

 Re\ ised Catalogue of the Birds of Illinois. 171 ; Mearns's Birds of 

 the Hudson Highlands. 172 ; Rathbun's " Bright Feathers or some 

 North American Birds of Beauty," 172; Holterhoff's Notes on 

 Western Birds, 173; Ridgway on a Duck new to the North 

 American Fauna, 173; Ridgway on the Amazilia yucatanensis, 

 Cabot, 173 ; Harvie-Brown's Second Report on Scottish Orni- 

 thology, 174; Godman and Salvin's '• Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana," 174. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Nest and Eggs of the Painted Flycatcher, 176; Breeding of the 

 Horned lark in Eastern New York. 1,77; Behavior of Leucosticte 

 tephrocotis in Confinement, 177; Hesperiphona vespertina in 

 Central Illinois, 179; Habits of the Swamp Sparrow in Confine- 

 ment, 179; the Snowbird {jfunco hyemalis) in Southern Illinois 

 in June, 180; A singular Cage Plumage of the Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak. 1S0; Carnivorous Propensities of the Crow Black- 

 bird, 180; Icterus baltimorei and Populus tremuloides, [S3; 

 A Peculiar Nest of the Baltimore Oriole, 1S2 ; The Three-toed 

 Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) in Massachusetts, 1S2 ; A Second 

 Massachusetts Specimen of the Red-bellied Woodpecker ( Centurus 

 carolinus), 1S3; A curious Colaptes, 1S3 ; A Vernacular Synonymy, 

 183; Nesting of Kennicott's Owl, 1S5 ; Breeding of the Acadian Owl 

 in Eastern Massachusetts, 1S5 : Early arrival in New England of 

 the Least Bittern, 186; The Least Bittern in Northwestern Minne- 



