CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barro-ws 109 



On Changes in Ornithological Nomenclature — A Reply to Critics. By Leo7i- 



hard Stejneger 114 



A Second Season in Texas. By Nathati Clifford Brown t20 



Notes on the Nesting Habits of the Yellow-throated Vireo {Laiiivireo flavi- 



frons). By N. S. Goss 124 



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



Ounithophilologicalities. By Professor Elliott Coues 140 



On the Genus Acanthis. By Leonhard Stejneger 145 



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



Notes on Ardea wardi Ridgw. By Chas. W. Ward 161 



Notes on Phalacrocorax violaceus and on P. violaceus resplendens. By N. S. Goss , 163 

 Brief Diagnoses of two New Races of North American Birds. By E. W. Nel- 

 son 165 



Analecta Ornithologica. By Leonhard Stejneger 166 



Bird Notes from Long Island. By William Butcher 174 



Characters of a New Species of Pigeon of the Genus Engyptila, from the 



Island of Grenada, West Indies. By George N. Lawrence iSo 



Recent Literature.— Stejneger on the American Turdidse, iSi ; Coues on the Structure of Birds' 

 Ears, 1S2; Jeffries on the Epidermal System of Birds, 1S2; Shufeldt on the Osteology of the 

 Mountain Plover, 1S3; Townsend on the Birds of Westmoreland County, Penn., 184; Bulletin 

 of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club, 1S4; Minor Ornithological Publications, 1S5. 



General Notes. — A singular specimen of the Black-and-white Creeper, 190; Breeding of the 

 Mockingbird near Boston, Mass., 192; Dendrcecn coronata in Southern New Hampshire, 193; 

 Nest and Plabits of the Connecticut Warbler, 192; The Loggerhead Shrike {Lanius ludovici- 

 anus), 193; Cowbirds in a Black-and-white Creeper's Nest, 193; The Great Horned Owl {Bubo 

 virginianus) in Confinement, 194; Ducks transporting Fresh-water Clams, 195; The Lesser 

 Glaucous-winged Gull in New York, 196; The Occipital Style of the Cormorant, 196. 



Correspondence. — Trinomials are Necessary, 197; Are Trinomials Necessary? 198; The Ornith- 

 ological Report in the 'Cruise of the Corwin,' 202; A Plea for the Metric System in Ornithol- 

 ogy. 203. 



Notes and News. — Obituary — Professor Hermann Schlegel, 205; Annual Meeting of the 

 A. O. U., 206; Ornithological Journals, 206; W.ork of the A. O. U. Committees, 207; Interna- 

 tional Ornithological Congress, 20S; 'The Auk' Vignette, 20S. 



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