Contents of Volume VT. 
A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BirDS oF THE GULF Coast 
oF FLoripA. By W. EZ. D. Scott. : : : : : : 
AN UNDESCRIBED Susspecies or Dryobates pubescens. By C. F. 
Batchelder 
AN Unusual FLicut or KILLpEer PLover (42 gialitis vocifera) 
ALONG THE NEw ENGLAND Coast. By Dr. Arthur P. Chad- 
bourne. 
A New Species or Duck From Texas. By George B. Sennett 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Cory’s Birds of the WestIndies, 265; Sclater’s Catalogue of the 
Mesomyodian Passeres, 266; Sclater and Hudson’s ‘Argentine 
Ornithology,’ 268; Gould’s ‘Birds of New Guinea,’ 269; Bird 
Migration in the Mississippi Valley, by W. W. Cooke, 270; Pub- 
lications Received , 272. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Florida Gallinule Breeding in Vermont, 273; The Killdeer 
Plover (4gvalitis voctfera) wintering on the New England Coast, 
274; The Wild Turkey inthe North Carolinia Mountains, 275; 
Buteo brackyurus in Florida, 275; A Hawk bearing a Legend, 276; 
Micropallas whitneyi, Elf Owl, taken in Texas, 276; Antros- 
tomus vociferus in Porto Rico, 276. The Olivaceous Flycatcher 
and Phoebe in Colorado, 276; The Ravenas a South Carolinian, 
277; The Lapland Longspur near Chicago in June, 278; He/- 
minthophila backmani on the East Coast of Florida, 278; The Inter- 
breeding of Helminthophila pinus and H. chrysoptera, 279; Den- 
droica coronata feeding upon Oranges, 279; Recent Capture of 
Kirtland’s Warbler in Michigan, and other Notes, 279; Poloptila 
Plumbea at Palm Springs, California, 280; Winter Notes from 
Portland, Maine, 28o. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
A Suggestion tothe A. O. U. Committee on the Revision of the 
Check-List of North American Birds, 28r. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Obituary.—Dr. Jerome Henry Kidder, 282; ‘Birds of Pennsylvania,’ 
283; Nehrling’s ‘North American Birds,’ 283; Audubon Ornitho- 
logical Club, 284; Report of the Ornithologist of the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, 284. 
NUMBER IV. 
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE WILD PIGEON (Ecfofpistes migrato- 
rius) AS A BIRD OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH SOME NOTES ON 
Irs Hasits. By William Brewster 
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