CONTENTS. 



VOL. XV., NO. 5, MAY, 1890. 



Egg-Freaks or Egg-Frauds? J. M. tV. 65 



An Interval Between the Laying of Eggs C. S. Brlmley ' CO 



A Few Spring Notes from Monomoy Island, Mass., 1890 . John C. Gaboon 66 



Notes on the Winter Birds of Clatsop Co., Oregon . . . C. W. Swallow 67 



Nesting of the Grebes Wm. Osborn 68 



Nesting of the Mourning Warbler E. G. Tabor 68 



Nesting of the Yellow-throated Vireo John N. Clark 69 



Notes from Lake Forest, 111 W. C. Pratt .70 



Large Set of Eggs of the Pewee Mark B. Mills . . , 70 



The Presence of McCown's and the Chestnut-collared Long- 

 spur in Southern Arizona, Near the Mexican Border . Otho C. Poling 71 



A Remarkable Set of Eggs of the Mountain Chickadee .J.P.N 71 



The Evening Grosbeaks 71 



Late Nesting S. Raeder 71 



A Series of Eggs of the Marsh Hawk J. P. N 72 



Nesting of Anna's Hummingbird H. R. Taylor 7.'5 



Failures J. W. Preston . .73 



Nesting of Wilson's Thrush in Pennsylvania .... Fred O. Koch 74 



He Will be More Astonished Before the Year's Out . . Mossback 75 



Was the Change in the Common Names Popular? 75 



Editorial 77 



Brief Notes 77 



Correspondence . . - 78 



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