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PAGE. 



A Studv of toe Singing of our Birds, 'i^y Eugene P. Bicknell 210 



The Breeding Haqits of the Pectoral Sandpiper (^rf/-orf/-o;«(^<; ;«ac«/fl/«.?). By £. 



W. Ndsoji \ .' 218 



T:iE Migration of our Winter Birds. By 5. W. Willard 221 



Description of a new Song Sparrow from the Southern Border of the United 



States. By H. W. Henshaiv . . . ,. . . 223 



Analecta Ornithologica. Second Series. 'By Leonha7'd Stejneger 225 



Notes on Certain Larid<e and Procellarid^ of the New England Coast. By 



Cnpt. J. W. Collins 235 



Remarks upon the Close Relationship between the White and Scarlet Ibises 



{Eiidociiuus albus ^nA E. ruber). \^y Robert Ridgw:iy . . . . . . . 239 



On the Occurrence of the White-winged Gull {Larus leucopterus Faiser) in the 



State of New York. By George N. Laxvrence 240 



Bird Nomenclature of the Chipfewa Indians. By W. W. Cooke .... 243 



On a New Gull from Alaska. By //. W. Henshaw . . . . . . . . 250 



Note on Astur alricapillus striatulas. 'By Robert Ridgway ....... 252 



On the possible Specific Identify of Buteo cooperi Cass, with B. h:trlani (Aud.). 



By Robert Ridgvjay 253 



The Shore Larks of the United States and Adjacent Territory. By H. W. 



Henshavj 254 



Bicknell's TiiiiUSH. By Rev. J. H. Lingille 20S 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By "Walter B. Barrozvs 270 



Recent Liter\ture. — The British Museum Catalog-ue of Birds, 27S; Coues's Key to North 

 American Birds, Second Edition, 3S2; Stearns's Notes on the Natural History of Labrador, 

 ■ 2S4; Belding- on Birds found at Gu.iyraas, Sonora, and Lower California, 2S4; Ridg'way on 

 New Birds trom California, 2S4; Cory's Birds of Haiti and San D.imingo, 5S5; Minor Ornitho- 

 logical Publications, 285; Publications Received, 2S9. 



General Notes. — The Generic Name Z/^en', 290; The Occurrence of the Golden Swamp War- 

 h\e.x- {Protonotaria citrea\ in Rhode Island, 291; Capture of the Summer Red Bird on Long 

 Island, 290; Vireo pliiladelphicus in .Morthern New York, 291; Vireo philadelphicus in tlie 

 Adirondack Region, jgt ; The Loggerhead Shrike again in Massachusetts, 291 ; Notes on 

 ■'Zrtw/w.scrwifrt^Ks' and 'Z. &o;-£«/;V' of Nelson's 'Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean,' 

 291; Probable Breeding ot t\\&'R.iiA.C\-o%%h'\.\\ {Loxia curvirostra americana') in Central Mary- 

 land, 292; The Probable Breeding-place oi Passerculus princeps, 293; Calainospiza bicolor 

 in Southern California, 293; Eggs of the Cowbird in Nest of the Carolina Dove, 293 ; Xan- 

 tliocephalus icteroccphalus in Chester County, S. C, 293; The Turkey Buzzard in Western New 

 York, 293; Occurrence of the Least Tern at San Diego, Cal., 294; Wilson's Petrel in Western 

 New York, 294; New Brunswick Winter Notes, 294; Second Addendum to List of Birds As- 

 certained to Occur within ten miles from Point De Monts, Province of Quebec, Canada; based 

 chieliy upon the Notes of Napoleon A. Comeau, 295. 



Correspondence-— An Ornithological Swindler, 29,; Can we not have a Simple System of 

 Nomenclature, 297; A Lay View of 'OrnithopJiilologicalities,' 300. 



Notes and News. — Recent and Prospective Ornithological Publications, 304-30'$; Obituary — 

 Wilson B''lagg, Edgar A. Small, Henry G. Vennor, 306; Explorations, 307; Ridgway Ornitho- 

 logical Club, 307; First International Ornithological Congress, 308. 



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