('i>>l trills of \'nliniic I. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A sini;uhir spcciiiicn of tlie Bl;ick-und-white Creeper, 19;); Brccciins^ of 

 the Mockiiiij^bird near Boston, Mass., 192; Deinfrceca coronata in 

 Soiithern New Ilumpshire, 192; Nest and Habits of tlie Connec- 

 ticut Warbler, 192; The Lo^^erhead Shrike i^Lauius ladovici- 

 (iiius), 193; Cowbirds in a l>hick-and-\vhite Creeper's JNest, 193; 

 The Great Horned Owl {^Bnbo virgiiiiuiiiis) in Confinement, 194; 

 Ducks transporting Fresh-water Clams, 195;. The Lesser Glau- 

 cous-winged Gull in New York, 196; The Occipital Style of the 

 Cormoiant, 196. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



"Trinomials are Necessary, 197; Are Trinomials Necessary? 19S; 

 — The Ornithological Report in the 'Cruise of the Corwin,' 202; 

 A Plea for the Metric System in Ornithology, 203. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Obituary' — Professor Hermann Schlegel, 205; Annual Meeting of the 

 A. O. U., 206; Ornithological Journals. 206; Work of the A. O. 

 U. Committees, 207; International Ornithological Congress, 208; 

 ■The Auk' Vignette. 208. 



NUMBER III. 



] 



A Study OF THE Singing of our Birds, ^y Eugene P. Bicknell 

 CL The Breeding Habits of the Pectoral Sandpiper {^Actrodroma 



iiiaculafiis). By i?. W. Nelson ...... 



The Migration of our Winter Birds. By 5. JV. Willard . 

 Description of a new Song Sparrow from the Southern Bor 



der of the United States. By H. W. Hens/iazv 

 0^ Analecta Ornithologica. Second Series. Bj Leonhard Stej 



neger ........... 



Notes on Certain Larid.e and Procellarid.e of the New Eng 



LAND Coast. By Capt. J. W. Collins .... 



Remarks upon the Close Relationship between the White 



AND Scarlet Ibises {Eudocimiis albus and E. ruber). By 



Robert Ridg-i.i.'ay ......... 



On the Occurrence of the White-winged Gull {Larus leucof- 



terus Faber) in the State of New York. ]3y George N. 



I.,a'vre7tce .......... 



Bird Nomenclature of the Chippewa Indians. By W. W. Cook 

 'C-: On a New Gull from Alaska. By H. IV. Hensha-v 



Note on Astur atr/capillus strtatulus. By Robert Ridgxvay • 

 On the possible Specific Ib^dentity of Buteo cooperi Cass, with 



B. harlani [Xvu.). By Robert R/dg-.iay .... 

 CL The Shore Larks of the United States and Adjacent Terri 



TORY. By /I. JV. Henshaiv ....... 



Bicknell's Thrush. By Rev. y. H. Langille .... 



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



'AGE 



210 



21S 



223 



336 



^39 



240 

 242 

 -50 



26S 

 270 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The British Museum Catalogue of Birds. 27S; Coues's Key to North 

 American Birds, Second Edition, 2S2 ; Stearns's Notes on the 

 Natui-al History of Labrador, 2S4; Belding on Birds found at 



