Vol. XIV 
1897 
Duck, Ring-necked, 206, 286. 
Raft, 286. 
Ruddy, 286. 
Whistling, 285. 
Wood, 286. 
Yellow-bellied Fiddler, 286. 
Ducks, velocity of flight of, 116. 
Dutcher, William, report of the 
A.O.U. committee on Protection 
of North American Birds, 21-32. 
Dwight,.J., Jr., Spzza americana 
near Kingston, New York, 95; 
the whistled call of Parus atrica- 
pillus common to both sexes, 99; 
a study of the Philadelphia Vireo 
(Vireo philadelphicus), 259-272 ; 
absence of ZTurdus aonalaschke 
pallasti in Tadousac, Quebec, in 
1896, 325. 
EAGLE, Bald, 174. 
Golden, 89, 174, 215, 227, 317. 
Eastman, H. D., three birds rare in 
Framingham, Mass., 327. 
Ectopistes migratorius, 88, 316, 349. 
Eider, 303. 
King, 202. 
Pacific, 303. 
Elainea albiventris, 365, 368. 
gaimardi, 365. 
pagana, 365. 
Elanoides forficatus, 326, 366. 
Elanus glaucus, 216. 
leucurus, 14, 216. 
Elliot, D.G., notice of his ‘Catalogue 
of a Collection of Birds from 
Somali-Land,’ 245. 
Emberizoides macrurus, 364. 
Embernagra rufivirgata, 129. 
striaticeps conirostris, 364. 
Empidonax acadicus, 127. 
bairdi, 53. 
bairdi occidentalis, 53. 
difficilis, 176, 300. 
flaviventris, 218, 
hammondi, 176, 355. 
insulicola, 300, 405. 
pusillus, 127. 
pusillus traillii, 127. 
traillii, 127, 176. 
traillii alnoruma, 127, 326, 410. 
wrightii, 176, 356. 
Engyptila erythrothorax, 366. 
Ereunetes occidentalis, 103, 351. 
pusillus, 288. 
Index. 
4a9 
Erismatura jamaicensis, 125, 256, 
350. 
rubida, 125. 
Estrilda cyanocephala, 157. 
Euetheia omissa, 359, 364. 
Euphonia crassirostris, 364. 
trinitatis, 364. 
Eupsychortyx sonnini, 367. 
Fatco alaudarius, 107. 
columbarius, 174, 349. 
glaucus, 216. 
mexicanus, 174, 353. 
peregrinus anatum, 226. 
richardsoni, 353. 
sparverius, 366. 
sparverius deserticolus, 174, 
399: 
Falcon, Prairie, 174. 
Fannin, J., the California Vulture 
in Alberta, 89 ; abundance of Owls 
on the coast of British Columbia, 
89g. 
Farley, J. A., breeding of the Sea- 
side Sparrow in Massachusetts, 
Bee 
Faxon, Walter, the Seaside Sparrow 
(Ammodramus maritimus) in 
Massachusetts, 320; what is Frzz- 
gilla macgillivrayt Aud.? 321; 
Purple Martins (Progue subzs) 
breeding in electric arc-light caps, 
407; the names of two Mexican 
Wrens, 409. 
Figgins, J. D., Bachman’s Sparrow 
in Maryland, 219. 
Finch, Cassin’s Purple, 177. 
McGregor’s House, 165. 
Pine, 320. 
Fisher, Wm. H., 
Maryland, 2109. 
Flicker, 275. 
Brown, 120. 
Red-shafted, 175. 
Floricola longirostris, 366. 
Fluvicola pica, 365. 
Flycatcher, Acadian, 127. 
Alder, 127, 326, 410. 
Green-crested, 127. 
Hammond’s 176. 
Island, 405. 
Wittle; 127. 
Olive-sided, 99, 176, 326, 410. 
Pluma, 53. 
Traill’s 127, 176. 
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