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A StTupy OF THE PHILADELPHIA VIREO Sea Dee ‘phicus). By Jouxzthan Dwight, Jr., 
M.D. (Plate IL.) 3 3 5 , 2 5 5 eee bo) 
THe TurRKEY Question. By Dr. Elliott Coe 5 5 : < . . : pee ele 247/72 
Some ABNORMAL CoLtor Marxincs. By Gerrit S. Miller. . s ew yhS 
THe TERNS OF PENIKESE ISLAND, MASSACHUSETTS. By George H. Mee. 3 7 i Pi OT) 
A List OF THE SPECIES OF ANSERES, PALUDICOL#®, AND LIMICOL4& OCCURRING IN THE STATE 
or Louisiana. By &, A. Mcelihenny. : 3 c ~ 285 
NESTING OF THE PARULA WARBLER (Compsathly emericana) IN Monee aS County, New 
Jersey. By Mark L. C. Wilde. . : hop 289 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEw TOWHEE FROM Canoes io Foseph Coney. 4 Q : e244: 
An AppiTion To NorTH AMERICAN PETRELS. By Welliam Palmer. 2p : : : ihe OH: 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW Bad Cas wiTH NOTES ON Burnes EES BY Ee) Ge 
Oberholser. : i ° 300 
A NovTEeworTHy Daeeeee Once IN THE Perc ae Einee Bee (Somateria dresseri). “s 
By Arthur H. Norton. : F ean 4 : Se303 
THE SUMMER HOME OF BAceaws s WARBLER NO LONGER UNKNOWN ‘By 0. Wane. aa 305 
PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIONS OF NEw Brrps FRomM Mexico AND ARON: By Hae M. 
Chapman. ; 2 i : 3 5 z : ; : : 6 : marty ap oe) 
GENERAL Notes. — The Proper Generic Name of the Loons, 312; Wyie lomzvia, an Addition to the 
Avifauna Columbiana, 312; Note on Pagophila alba, 313; Arrival of Terns at Penikese Island in 
1897, 3133 Onychoprion, not Haliplana, 314; Remarks on certain Procellariide, 314; Rectrices of 
Cormorants, 316; Concordance of Merganser americanus, 316; The Scarlet Ibis in Colorado, 316; 
Little Blue Heron in New Hampshire, 316; Bob-white in Northwestern New York, 316; Additional 
Records of the Passenger Pigeon (2 ctopistes migratorius), 316; Aguila chrysaétos in Central Min- — 
nesota, 317; Breeding “of the Goshawk in Pennsylvania, INGER Peculiar Nest of the Great Horned 
Owl, 318; Disgorgement among Song Birds, 318 ; An Unusual Song. of the Red-winged Blackbird, 
319; Spring Molt in Spinus pinus, 320; An earlier name for Ammodramus leconteiz, 320; The 
Seaside Sparrow (A mmodramus martinis) in Massachusetts, 320: What is Arimgilla mace illi- 
uray, Aud.? 321; The Seaside Sparrow (A wzmodramius martinis) at Middletown, R. I., 322; 
Breeding of the Seaside Sparrow in Massachusetts, 322; Bachman’s Sparrow in Virginia : B22 
Breeding of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Beverly, N.J., 323; On the Status of Lavzzus robustius 
Baird as a North American Bird, 323; Vzreo flavoviridis in Nebraska — A Correction, 323; Reap- 
pearance of the Mockingbird at Portland, Maine, 324; A Mockingbird at Worcester, Mass., 324; 
Breeding of Svztta canadensis in Pennsylvania, 324; A Novel Idea of a Tufted Titmouse, 325; 
Absence of Turdus aonraschke pallasii at Tadousac, Quebec, in 1896, 325; A Great Flight of 
Robins in Florida,-325; Rare Birds in the Vicinity of Philadelphia, 326; ‘A Few Notes on the 
Avifauna Columbiana, 326; Northern New Jersey Notes, 326; Bird Notes from Massachusetts, 326; — 
Three Birds rare in Framingham, Mass , 327; Bibliographical Note, 327. 
Recent LITERATURE. — Ridgway’s Birds of the Galapagos Archipelago, 329; Cooke’s Birds of Colorado, 
331; Miller on Construction of Scientific Names, 332; Chapman’s Notes on Birds observed in 
Yucatan, 333; ‘Upon the Tree-Tops,’ 333 ; The Sharp- tailed Sparrows of Maine, 334; The Story of 
the Farallones, 334; Bird-Nesting with a Camera, 334; Birds of Wellesley, 335; Nehrling’s Birds: 
Vol. II, 335; Chapman’s ‘ Bird-Life,’ 336; Publications Received, 338. 
CoRRESPONDENCE.—— The A. O. U. Check-List, 340. 
Notes anp News. — Obituary: Robert Hoe Lawrence, 342; Edward Drinker Cope, 342; Bird Pro- 
tection, 343 ; New York Zoological Society, 344. Ng 
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