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DESCRIPTION OF SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES OF HUMMINGBIRDS BELONGING TO THE 
GENERA, Amazilia AND Eriocnemis. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. . . . . 209 
Some ACCOUNT OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN GREENLAND, FROM THE MSS. or oe 
HAGHRUP. yee ditedi bya WontacicenC/70s7 07) a772 ea inne nee en 211 
Noms TON WEST INDIANS BIRDS Diya CLa7eSe mn CO) minnie net) a (-neee 218 
Brrps OBSERVED AT SANTA BaRBARA, CALIFORNIA. By W. A. Feffries TORCH Oi 220 
ON THE HIATUS EXISTING BETWEEN THE BREEDING RANGES OF THE LOGGERHEAD AND 
\VasvGnDMoniuanD) SiRIIS, IY Ca veh IIH oo) 5 a 224 
Picicorvus columbianus (WILS.), CLARKE’S NUTCRACKER. ITS NEST AND EGGS, ETC. 
By Capt Charles E. Bendire . . MUG AO Um a Sth yon 226 
SuMMEK BIRDS OF EASTLAND County, TARAS. ‘By EME Vd SU OUCK. pea ae en 230 
A Birp Wave. By Philip Cox . . 2). Ge Oh eae ee 241 
On THE Specrric IDENTITY OF Buteo Pees AND Tuco foe 2 1no0suS, WITH ADDITIONAL 
RECORDS OF THEIR OCCURRENCE IN FLoriDA. By W.£.D. Scott. . . . . 243, 
A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE GULF Coast OF FLORIDA. By 
WERE SD SCOL LA E an ie Sutton he Scere ae tenn 245 
AN UNDESCRIBED SUBSPECIES OF Dy yah dies peccoe By C. F. Batchelder anche ed reams 253 
AN Unusual FLIGHT oF KILLDEER PLOVER (4 o71alitis pee ALONG THE NEW 
ENGLAND Coast. By Arthur P. Chadbourne. . Syoneyelete: tate o kane ane 255 
A New SPECIES OF DUCK FROM TEXAS. By George B. Sennen PARE Peas eon nc 263 
RECENT LITERATURE.—Cory’s Birds of the West Indies, 265; Sclater’s Catalogue of the Meso- 
myodian 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; Publica- 
cations: Received, 272. 
GENERAL Notes.—The Florida Gallinule Breeding in Vermont, 273; The Killdeer Plover 
(42gialitis vocifera) wintering on the New England Coast, 274; The Wild Turkey in the 
North Carolina Mountains, 275; Bzuteo brachyurus in Florida, 275; A Hawk bearing a Legend, 
246; Micropallas whitney, Elf Owl, taken in Texas, 276; Anstrostomus vociferus in Porto 
Rico, 276, The Olivaceous Flycatcher and Phoebe in Colorado, 276; The Raven as a South 
Carolinian, 277, The Lapland Longspur near Chicago in June, 278; Helminthopnila bachmani 
on the East Coast of Florida, 278; The Interbreeding of Helminthophila pinus and H. chrysop- 
tera, 279; Dendroica coronata feeding upon Oranges, 279; Recent Capture of Kirtland’s Warbler 
in Michigan, and other Notes, 279; Polroptila plumbea at Palm Springs, California, 280; Win- 
ter Notes from Portland, Maine, 28o. 
CoORRESPONDENCE.--A Suggestion to the A. O. U. Committee on the Revision of the Check-List of 
North American Birds, 281. 7 
NetEs anp NeEws.—Obituary, Dr. Jerome Henry Kidder, 282; ‘Birds of Pennsylvania,’ 283; 
Nehrling’s ‘North American Birds,’ 283; Audubon Ornithological. Club, 284; Report of 
the Ornithologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 284. 
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