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Index. 



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Ardetta involucris, 271. 

 Arenaria interpres, 229. 



melanocephala, 229. 

 Arquatella, 142. 

 couesi, 77. 

 maritima, 76. 

 Asio accipitrinus, 29, 115. 



brachyotus, 115. 

 Astrigalinus tristis, 244, 328. 

 Astur atricapillus, 247. 



ati'icapillus henshawi, 166. 

 atricapillus striatulus, 252. 

 badius, 340. 

 brevipes, 340. 

 poliopsis, 340. 

 poljzonoides, 340. 

 sphenurus, 340. 

 Asturina pucherani, 30. 

 Atthis, 57. 

 Auk, Black-throated, 98. 



Great, 81, 208. 

 Auriparus flaviceps, 354. 

 Avestruz, 318, 

 Aythia americana, 249. 

 Bailey, H. B., breeding habits of 



the Everglade Kite, 95. 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwaj, notice 

 of their work on the Water Birds 

 of North America, 382. 

 Banks, J. W. , nesting of the Broad- 

 winged Hawk {Btcteo ^ennsyl- 

 vanicus), 95; the Great Horned 

 Owl (^Btibo vtrgtniattus) in con- 

 finement, 194. 

 Barrows, W. B., birds of the Low- 

 er Uruguay, 20, 109, 270, 313; 

 abnormal coloration in a caged 

 Robin, 90. 

 Batchelder, C. F., description of 

 the first plumage of Clarke's 

 Crow, 16 ; BufFon's Skua in Ver- 

 mont, 97. 

 Becasino, 314. 



Belding, L. , notices of his papers on 

 birdsof Lower California, etc., 83, 

 284. 

 Bernicla, 143. 



canadensis, 80, 248, 309. 

 canadensis hutchinsi, 80. 

 canadensis leucoparia, 80. 

 canadensis occidentalis, 80. 

 brenta, 248. 

 brenta nigricans, 96. 

 nigricans, 187. 

 Bicknell, E. P., a Study of the Sing- 

 ing of our birds, 60, 126, 209, 322. 

 Bird, Cardinal, 189. 

 Cedar, 6, 294. 

 Chipping, 190. 



Bird, Cow. See Cowbird. 

 Guachera, 307. 

 Indigo, 6, 67, 86. 

 Phoebe, 65. 

 Summer Red, 290. 

 Thistle, 294. 

 Bittern, American, 247. 



Least, 188, 248. 

 Blackbird, Cow. See Cowbird. 

 Crow, 6, 86, 185. 

 Red-winged, 6, 245. 

 Yellow-headed, 245, 293. 

 Blackhead, Ring-billed, 249. 

 Bluebird, 6, 13, 86, 133, 244. 



Californian, i2i. 

 Bobolink, 6, 8, 64, 245. 

 Bolborhynchus monachus, 28. 

 Bonasa umbellus, 186, 247. 

 Botaurus, 143. 



lentiginosus, 87, 247. 

 mugitans, 115. 

 Brachyrhamphus brachypterus, 386. 

 hypoleucus, 396. 

 kittlitzii, 81. 

 Brant, 248. 



Black, 187. 

 Brewer, T. M., see Baird, Brewer, 



and Ridgway. 

 Brewster, W., notes on the Sum- 

 mer Birds of Berkshire County, 

 Mass., 5; notice of his annota- 

 tions to the 'Birds and Fethered 

 Fowles' of Morton's 'New English 

 Canaan,' 84; on a specimen of 

 Helminthophaga leticobronchialts 

 from Connecticut, 91 ; recent oc- 

 currence of the Black-backed 

 Three- toed Woodpecker in Mas- 

 sachusetts, 93; a singular speci- 

 men of the Black-and-White 

 Creeper, 190; note on the Lesser 

 Glaucous-winged Gull in New 

 York, 196; an ornithological 

 swindler, 295; notice of his Birds 

 observed in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, 379. 

 Brown, N. C, a second season in 

 Texas, 120; the Widgeon in Maine 

 in February, 394. 

 Browne, F. C, the Loggerhead 

 Shrike again in Massachusetts, 

 291 ; GeotJilypis trichas wintering 

 in Massachusetts, 389. 

 Bryant, W. E., Nest and eggs of 



Myiadestes iownsendt, 91. 

 Bubo, 57. 



virginianus, 29, 194, 246. 

 virginianus subarcticus, 79. 

 Budytes fiaya, 77. 



