CONTENTS : 



T-AGE. 



DEycR = VTioNS OK SEVERAL NEW BiRDS FROM Santo Domingo. By Charles B. 



Cii y. (Plate 1.) i 



Notes on the Sutumer Birds of Berkshire County, Ma.'-sachusetts. &y William 



Brcvjster 5 



Description of the First Plumage ok Clarke's Crow. By Charles F. Batchclder i6 

 Notes on the Breeding Habits of the American Eared Grebes {Dytes nigricollis 



californiciis). By 7V^ 5. Goss " i8 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrovjs .... ■ ... 20 



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



Dendrocopos PURUS, a New Species of Woodpecker from Kamtschatka. V,y Leon- 



hard Stejneger 35 



The Coues Lexicon of North American Birds. By Augustus C. Merriam ... 36 



Oknithophilologicalities. By Professor Elliott Coues 49 



Third Addendum to the Preliminary List of the Birds ascertained to occur 



IN the Adirondack Region, Norti-ieastekn New York. By C Hart Merriam, M.D. 5S 



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



Bird Migration. By C. Hart Merrian^i, M. D yr 



Recent Literature. — Nelson's Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean, 76; Corv's Beautiful 

 and Curious Birds, Si ; Stejneger and Ridgway on Birds of the Commander Islands, Si ; 

 Ridgway on New Species of American Birds, 83; Ridgway on the Genus Tantalus, .S3; 

 Belding on Birds of Lower California, S3; Ridg'way and Nutting on Costa Rican Birds, S4; 

 Brewster on tlic "Birds and Fethered Fowles" of Morton's 'New English Canaan,' S4; 

 Gill's Record of Ornithological Progress in iSSi, S4; Birds of Western Ontario, S5 ; Minor 

 Ornithological Publications, S5 ; Publications Received, 89. 



General Notes. — Abnormal Coloration in a Caged Robin, 90; Nest and Eggs of the Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet {Regulus calendula), 90; Thryothorus ludovicianus in JVlassachusetts, 91; 

 Another Example of Helm inihophaga lencobronchialis from Connecticut, 91 ; Nest and Eggs 

 of Myiadestes tozvnsendi, 91; Prehensile Feet of the Crow {Corvus frugivorus), 92; Do 

 Crows carry Objects in their Claws? 92; Nest and Eggs of Couch's Flycatcher ( Tyraiimis 

 melancliolicus couchi), 93; Recent Occurrence of tlie Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker 

 in Massachusetts, 93; A Woodpecker destroying Cocoons, 93; The Nest of the Saw-whet 

 Owl, 94; Another Gyr-fulcon in Rhode Island, 94; Breeding Flabits of the Everglade Kite, gg ; 

 Nesting of the Broad-winged Hawk {Buleo pennsylvanictis'), 95; Note on Zenaidura yuca- 

 tanensis Lawr., 96; Beruicla hreiita nigricans in Massachusetts, 96; Night Herons and 

 Rails in Dakota, 96; Occun-ence of the Royal Tern {Sterna regia Ganib.) at Tangiers in 

 M(H-occo, p. 99; Buifon's Skua in Vermont, 97; A newly-discovered Breeding Place of Leach's 

 Petrel {Cymochorea lejicorrhoa) in Scotland, 9S; Black-throated Auk {Synihliborhamphus 

 antiguns in Wisconsin, 99; Birds new 1;o the Fauna of Kansas, and others Rare in the 

 State, captured at Wallace, Oct. 12 to 16, 1SS3, 100. 



Correspondence. — Are Trimonials Necessary? 101. 



Notes and News. — An Awkward Matter, 105; Ornithological Works in Prospect, 105; Orni- 

 thological Societies, 106; Work of the A. O. U. Committees, 107; Personal Notes, loS. 



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