iv Contents of Volume I. 



coucki), 93; Recent Occurrence of the Black-backed Three-toed 

 Woodpecker in Massachusetts, 93; A Woodpecker destroying 

 Cocoons, 93; The Nest of the Saw-whet Owl, 94; Another Gjr- 

 falcon in Rhode Island, 94; Breeding Habits of the Everglade 

 Kite, 95; Nesting of the Broad-winged Hawk (^Buteo fennsylvan- 

 icas),g^; Note on Zenaidui-a yucatanensis Lawr.,96; Bernicla 

 brenta nigricaiisin'^ls.ssach.ViBe.tts, 96; Night Herons and Rails 

 in Dakota, 96; Occurrence of the Roj'al Tern {Sterna regia 

 Gamb.) at Tangiers in Morocco, 99; Buffon's Skua in Vermont, 

 97; A newly-discovered Breeding Place of Leach's Petrel {Cymo- 

 chorea leiicorrhoa) in Scotland, 98; Black-throated Auk {Synthli- 

 borhamphus antiqims) in Wisconsin, 99 ; Birds new to the Fauna 

 of Kansas, and others Rare in the State, captured at Wallace, Oct. 

 12 to 16, 1S83, 100. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 

 Are Trinomials Necessary.^ loi. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



An Awkward Matter, 105; Ornithological Works in Prospect, 105 ; 

 Ornithological Societies, 106; Work of the A. O. U. Committees, 

 107 ; Personal Notes, 108. 



NUMBER II. 



Pagk 

 Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows . . 109 

 On Changes in Ornithological Nomenclature — A Reply to 



Critics. By Leonhard Stejneger ■ . ■ ■ ■ .114 

 A Second Season in Texas. By Nathan Clifford Brown . . 120 

 Notes on the Nesting Habits of the Yellow-throated Vireo 



(yLanivireo Jiavifrons). By JV. S. Goss ..... 124 

 A Study' of the Singing of our Birds. By Eugene P. Bicknell . 126 

 Ornithophilologicalities. By Professor Elliott Cones . . 140 



(K' On the Genus Acant/iis. By Leonhard Stejneger .... 145 

 The Winter Passeres and Picari^e of Ottawa. By W. L. Scott 156 

 Notes ON ^/'(fgrt wrtrtf/RiDGW. By Chas. W. Ward . . .161 

 Notes on Phalacrocorax violaceiis and on P. violaceus resflendens. 



By N. S. Goss 163 



<:t^ Brief Diagnoses of two New Races of North American Birds. 



By E. W. Nelson . ' . . . . ^ i6=i 



■ Analecta Ornithologica. By Leonhard Stejneger . . . 166 



Bird Notes from Long Island. By William Dutcher . . . 174 

 Characters of a New Species of Pigeon of the Genus Engyp- 



tila, FROM THE Island of Grenada, West Indies. By George 



N. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . 180 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Stejneger on the American Turdida;, 181 ; Coues on the Structure of 

 Birds' Ears, 182; Jeffries on the Epidermal System of Birds, 1S2 ; 

 Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Mountain Plover. 183; Town- 

 send on the Birds of Westmoreland County, Penn.. 184; Bulletin 

 of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club, 184; Minor Ornithological 

 Publications, 185. 



