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OL. XV., NO. 11, NOVEFVIBER, 1890. 



A List of the Summer Resident Birds on the Southwestern 

 Coast ol Maine 



A Strange Occurrence 



Nesting of the Summer Tanager at Raleigh, N. C. 

 New Ornithological Association .... 

 Nesting of the Prairie Warbler at Raleigh, N. C. 

 The Capacity of Eggs 



. Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr 161 



. Stewart E. White 1G3 



. C. S. Brimley 164 



. Chas. W. Hargitt 164 



. C. S. Brimley 165 



. Walter Hoxie 165 



Influence of the Open Winter of 1889-1890 on the Nesting and 



Arrival of Some Birds at Raleigh, N. C C. S. Brimley 



Ri-d Plialarope in Rhode Island Southwick and Critchley 



Wood Ibis in Indiana Fletcher M. Noe 



Notes by tlie Way 



166 

 166 

 167 

 167 



Henry I). Minot is Dead 

 Natural History Business 

 Day at Rockaway Beach 

 Wanderings, No. 9 . 

 Two Days in the Field . 

 Editorial .... 

 Brief Notes 



Jos. M. Wade 167 



Frank B. Webster 168 



Arthur H. Howell 170 



F. A. Bates 71 



Stewart E. White 1 ' 



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