CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. 



NUMBER I. 



Page 

 Descriptions of Several New Birds from Santo Domingo. 



By Charles B. Cory. (Plate I.) . . . . . . i 



Notes on the Summer Birds of Berkshire County, iMas5ac:iu- 



SETTS. Bv William Brexvster ....... ^ 



Description of the First Plumage of Clarke's Crow. Bv 



Charles JP". Batcheldcr . . . . . . . . .16 



Notes on the Breeding Habits of the American Eared Grebes 



{Dfles nigricollis californicus). By JV. S. Goss . . . .18 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows . . 20 



Bird Notes from Long Island, N. Y. By William Datcher . 31 

 Dendrocopos purus, a New Species of Woodpecker fro.m 



KamtsCHATka.. By Leonhard Ste/neger . . . . ■ 3!> 



The Coues Lexicon of North American Birds. By Augusfiis C. 



Mcrriam ............ 36 



Ornithophilologicalities. By Professor Elliott Cones . . 49 

 Third Addendum to the Preliminary List of the Birds ascer- 

 tained TO occur in the Adirondack Region, Northeastern 

 New York. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D. . . . . . 58 



A Study of the Singing of our Birds. By Eugene P. Bicknell . 60 

 Bird Migration. By C. Hart Merriam, M. D. . . . -71 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Nelson's Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, 76; Cory's 

 Beautiful and Curious Birds, 81 ; Stejneger and Ridgway on 

 Birds of the Commander Islands, 81 ; Ridgway on New Species of 

 American Birds, S3; Ridgway on the Genus Tantalus, '$,'i,\ field- 

 ing on Birds of Lower California, S3; Ridgway and Nutting on 

 Costa Rican Birds, 84; Brewster on the 'Birds and Fethered 

 Fowles' of Morton's 'New English Canaan,' 84: Gill's Record 

 of Ornithological Progress in iSSi, 84; Birds of Western Ontario, 

 85 ; Minor Ornithological Publications, 85 ; Publications Received. 

 89. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Abnormal Coloration in a Caged Robin, 90: Nest and Eggs of the 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet {Regulus calendula) , go; Thrvothorus 

 ludovicianus in M-assachusetts, 91 ; Another Example of Hclmin- 

 thophaga leucobronchialis from Connecticut, 91 ; Nest and Eggs 

 of Myiadesfes townseiidi, 91 ; Prehensile Feet of the Crow ( Corvus 

 frugivorns), 92; Do Crows carry Objects in their Claws.' 92; 

 Nest and Eggs of Couch's Flycatcher {^Tyrannus mela/icholicns 



