CONTENTS 



The Canada Goose {Bernicla canadensis:). Jiy jfames P. Iloruley ..,■... 309 



RiRDS OK THE LowEK UuuGUAY. By W. B. BarroxL's I . . 313 



On some New Terms kecommended for use in Zoological Nomenclature. By 



Professor Cones ................ 320 



A Study of the Stnging of our Birds. By Eugene P. Biclcnell 322 



The Distribution and MigRAXioN of Zonoirichia querula. By W. W. Cooke . . 332 



Zoological Nomenclature. By y. A. Allen 338 



Collecting in the Colorado Desert— Leconte's Thrasher. By i^. Stephens. . 353 



Analecta Ornithologica. Third Series. By Leonhard Stejneger 35S 



A Note on the Genus Prague. By R. Boxvdler Sharpe, For. Menib. A. O. U. . . 367 



A New Subspecies of Willow Grouse from Newfoundland. By Leonhard Stejneger 369 



Second Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union 369 



Recent Literature. — Brewster on Birds observed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 379; Collins's 

 Notes on the Sea Birds of the Fishing Banks, 3S0; Stejneger on Trinomials in American Or- 

 nitholog}', 381; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Wiiter Birds of North America, 382; Coues and 

 Prentiss's 'Avifauna Columbiana,' 386; Ridgway on Rare Neotropical Birds, 3S6; Ridgway on 

 the Pied Wagtails of Eastern Asia, 3S7 ; Lawrence on New Species of American Birds, 3S7 ; 

 Jouy on Birds collected in Japan, 3S7; Publications Received, 387. 



General Notes. — Another Kirtland's Warbler from Michigan, 389: Geothlypis trichas winter- 

 ing in Massachusetts, 389; Tlie Yellow -breasted Chat and Summer Redbud in Canada, 389; 

 'Breeding oi Passeradus priticeps on Sable Island, 390; The Cardinal Grosbealt breeding in 

 IJrooklj'n, N. Y., 390; The Orchard Oriole {Pcterus spurius) in Western Vermont, 390; The 

 Crow {Corvns frugiziorus) as a Fisherman, 391; Odd Nesting-site of a Great-crested Fly- 

 catcher, 391 ; Duck Hawks breeding in the Helderburg Mountains, New York, 391 ; Hybrid 

 between Pedioeceles phasianellus and Cupido7iia ciipido, 391 ; Notes on Lagopiis leucurtis, 392; 

 Eskimo Curlew at San Diego, Cal., 393; Nesting of the Little Black Rail in Connecticut, 392; 

 The Widgeon in Maine in jff'ebruary, 394; Pelicans on the Move, 395; C'Aptiwe ni Megalestris 

 skua- o^ the Coast of Cape Cod, Mass., 395; Brachyramphus hypolencus off the Coast of 

 Southern California, 396; 'Avifauna Columbiana' — a Protest, 396; Notes on Certain Birds 

 observed on a Voj'age from Liverpool to Quebec in September, 18S3, 39S. 



Co'iRESPONDENCE. — The Generic Name Troglodytes, 400; Strickland as an A Ivocate of 'Linnaeus 

 at '58,' 400; Indian Bird Names, 400; A New Element in Diagnosis, 402. 



Notes and New j.— National Museum Exhibit of Birds at the New Orleans Exliibition, 403; 

 The Bird Collection of the National Museum, 403; The Ridgway Ornithological Club, 404; 

 .'Texas und seine Ornis', 404; English Bird Names — Vireo vs. Greenlet, and Junco vs. Snow- 

 bird, 414. 



Index 405 



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