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DESCRIPTIONS OF SUPPOSED NEw BIRDS FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND 
Mexico. By William Brewster . 3 : 0 : : 3 : 2 . 0 : 85 
On THE SUMMER BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE County, MassacuusEettrs. By Walter Faxon. 99 
NOTES ON THE GENERAL Habits, NESTS AND EGGS OF THE GENUS Passerella. By 
Capt. Charles E. Bendire . Pie raln areas aie cere 20 se fet 2 ane oO 
Neres ON THE SUMMER BIRDS OF THE RESTIGOUCHE VALLEY, NEW BRUNSWICK. By 
Fohn Brittain and Philip Cox, Fr._. . : 0 : 9 a 5 : : 116 
Nores ON WESTERN NorTH Carotina Birps. By W. A. Feffriesand F. A. Feffries . 119 
ADDITIONS TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF KANSAS, WITH NOTES IN REGARD TO 
THEIR Hapits. By N.S. Goss. : 0 3 c : : : 5 c 2 122 
Birp Nores FROM LITTLE GULL ISLAND, SUFFOLK Co., N. Y. By Basil Hicks Dutcher. 124. 
Birp NovTes FRoM Lone IsLanp, NEw York. By William Dutcher 9 : 3 0 131 
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF BIRD MIGRATION. By Witmer Stone : 2 : 139 
Nores ON THE BirDS oF THE MAGDALEN IsLanps. By Dr."Louts B. Bishop. : 144 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SUPPOSED NEST aND EcGcGs or Zonotrichia querula, Harris’s 
Sparrow. By Capt. Charles E. Bendire . 0 . d c 0 5 : 9 > 150 
A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA. By 
W.E.D. Scott . 2 : : ° 0 : 2 0 3 2 : 5 0 5 ° 152 
RECORDS OF RARE BirDS AT KEY WEST, FLORIDA, AND VICINITY, WITH A NOTE ON 
THE CAPTURE OF A Dove (Geotrygon montana) New To NortH America. By 
W.E.D. Scott . ° 3 : 160 
THE CLAPPER RAILS OF THE UNITED STATES AND WEST INDIES COMPARED WITH 
Rallus longirestris of SouTH AMERICA. By George B. Sennett. : 5 : a 161 
RESTORATION OF AN AUDUBONIAN ForM OF Geothlypis trichas TO THE AMERICAN 
AvirauNna. By £. M. Hasbrouck. 167 
Recent LITERATURE.— Supplement to the A. O. U. Code of Nomenclature and Check-List of 
North American Birds, 168; The Abridged A.O.U.Check-List, 169; Warren’s ‘Birds of 
Pennsylvania’, 170; Ridgway on New or Little-known American Birds, 171; Bendire on the 
Nests and Eggs of Rare Species of North American Birds, 173; Lawrence on a New Species 
of American Bird, 173; Stejneger on the Japanese Creepers, 173; Beckham on _the Birds of 
Southwestern Texas, 173; Minor Ornithological Publications, 174; Publications Received, 184. 
GENERAL Nores.— Sterna paradisea. — A Correction, 186; The Wood Ibis in Indiana, 186; 
Additional Notes on the Bittern, 187; Tringa bairdii on Long Island Sound, 189; Note on 
the First Plumage of Colinus ridgwayt, 189; Another Saw-whet Owl (Wyctala acadica) 
in the District of Columbia, 189; A Fishing Screech Owl, 189; Brewer’s Blackbird near 
New Orleans, 190; The Chestnut-collared and Lapland Longspurs on Long Island, N, Y., 190; 
Breeding of Habia ludoviciana in Niagara County, New York, 191; Calamospiza melano- 
corys on Long Island, N. Y., 192; Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Conn.—-A Correction, 
192; Helminthophila pinus, H. chrysoptera, H.leucobronchialis, and H. lawrencez in Con- 
necticut in the Spring of 1888, 192; The Connecticut Warbler in Vermont, 193; Myadestes 
townsendit Apparently Wintering in Wyoming, 193; Another Western Bird in South Carolina, 
194; Bicknell’s Thrush Breeding in Vermont, 194; Some Rare Rhode Island Birds, 194; Some 
Rare Virginia Birds, 194; Costal Variations in Birds, 195. 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.- -Linnzan Society of New York, 196. 
Nores anp News.—Obituary, Thure Ludwig Theodor Kumlien, 204; S. Lowell Elliott, 206; 
Richard Spaulding Wray, 206; Maynard’s ‘Eggs of North American Birds’ and ‘Contributions 
to Science,’ 206; ‘Ornithologists? and Odlogists’ Semi-Annual,’ 206; ‘Hawkeye Ornitholo- 
gist and Odlogist,’ 207; ‘The Curlew,’ 207; A list of the Birds of Minnesota, 207; Calitornia 
Ornithological Club, 207; Kent Scientific Institute, 208; Officers of the California Academy 
of Sciences, 208; Specimens for Examination at the Next Meeting of the A. O. U., 208; Or- 
nithological Explorations, 208; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt. 208. 
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