CON TE Naess 
THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE WILD PIGEON (Ectopistes migratorius) AS A BIRD OF THE 
UNITED STATES, WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS Hasits. By William Brewster. . . 285 
SoME ACCOUNT OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN GREENLAND, FROM THE MSS. oF A. 
Hacerup. Edited by Montague Chamberlain 0 aA hs ae create Eeezor 
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEST AND EcGs or Megascops asio ape THE Rocky Mou 
TAIN SCREECH Owl. By Capt. Charles E. Bendire . . Shanes 298 
NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF “aMEnawoom, NEw yaaa. ie, } 
Frank M. Chapman. . 302 
NOTES ON THE BLUE-WINGED WhaRena AND ITS Janam \(Helminthoplida rs, H. 
leucobronchialis, H. lawrencei anD HZ. Ge. IN ConneEcTicuT. By Edwin H. 
LED OLES Snes z |) a area 305 
LIsT OF THE EDS OF nrom Sous TY, Emenee, By i Otley Pindar ane eS LO 
A SECOND SPECIMEN OF CorRy’s Beene (Botauras neoxenus). By W. E. D. Shoe co ay 
A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA. By 
WEEDS ES COLES Pais Nee | 15. ahem bal a a. a ea et nis Otten aura ae re aN Oa 318 
RECENT LITERATURE.—Barrow’s Report on the English Sparrow in North America, 326; Davie’s 
_ ‘Nests and Eggs of North American Birds,’ 328; ‘Birds through an Opera Glass,’ 330; Stone’s 
‘Catalogue of the Muscicapidz in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences,’ 330; Bergtold’s List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vicinity, 331; Keyes and Williams’s 
Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa, 332; Taylor’s Catalogue of Nebraska Birds, 332; 
Shufeldt’s Recent Contributions to the Osteology of North American Birds, 333; Gould’s 
Supplement to the Trochilidz, 334; Publications Received, 334. 
GENERAL Notes.—A New Duck for Massachusetts, Momonyx dominicus, 336; Phalaropus 
lobatus and Phalaropus tricolor, 336; Nesting Habits of the Parrakeet ( Conurus carolinensis) 
336; Melanerpes carolinus Eating Oranges, 337; The Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) in Con- 
necticut, 338; Mortality among Eave Swallows, 338; The Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica 
dominica) near Washington, D. C., 339; Troglodytes aédon, House Wren, Building in a Hor- 
nets’ Nest, 339; Birds near Springfield, Massachusetts, 340; Notes from Minnesota, 340; 
Notes from Wyoming, 341. ~ 
NoTEsS AND NeEws.— Obituary— Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer, 341; The Seventh Congress 
of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 341; Recent Explorations, 342; A New Publication, 
342. 
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