CONTENTS. 



KiRTi.\ND^s Warblek (De/idraica Airtlandi). "Qy Frank M. Chapinati. Plate IV. 



Canon XL, A. O. U. Code. By D. G. Elliot, F. R.S.E 



A Defense of Canon XL of the A. O. U. Code. By/. A. Allen 



Description of a New North American Thrush. By Harry C. Oberholser. 



The Summer Birds of San Miguel County, New Mexico. By Walton I. Miichell. 



Avifauna of the Revillagigedo Island. By .4. IV. Antho?iy. .... 



New Species, etc., of American Birds. — II. Fringillid^ (continued). By Robert Ridgway 



Description of a New Species of Hummingbird from Arizona, ^y Robert Ridgivay. 



Description of a New Species of Gyimwstinops. By Charles W. Richmond. 



Breeding Habits of the Solitary Sandpiper (7'(7if«w»«' solitarius). By C. K. Clarke, M.D 



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General Notes. — Antrostomus carolinensis Devouring other Birds, 330; Tyrannns inagnirostris 

 d'Orb. Renamed, 330; Nest Building under Difficulties, 330; Hemithraupis : — a Correction, 330; 

 Kirtland's Warbler (Z>e72rfrozV« ^/r^/««rfi) in Florida, 331 ; Dendroica kirtlandi hi Pennsylvania: A 

 Correction, 331; The Pine 'Wa.rbXe.r {Dendroica vigorsii) di Breeder in Ohio, 331; The Yellow- 

 breasted Cliat in Oneida County, N. Y., 331; Curious Nesting of American Redstart, 332 ; Nesting 

 of the Robin, 332 ; A Note on the Wood Thrush, 332 ; Notes from Chateaugay Lake, New York, 

 333 ; Ectopistes migratorius, Miin7is polyglottos, and Stiimella tnagna neglecta in Bristol Co., 

 Mass., 333. 



Recent Literature. — Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, 334 ; Bird Nesting with a 

 Camera, 334; Butler's ' Birds of Indiana,' 335 ; Blanford's ' Birds of British India,' 336; Gurney's 

 'The Economy of the Cuckoo,' 337; Eastman on ' Struthious Birds,' 338; Bangs on Birds from 

 Colombia, 339; Nelson on New Birds from Mexico, 339 ; Cooke's ' Birds of Colorado,' 340 ; Pro- 

 ceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 341 ; Kearton's ' With Nature and a Camera,' 

 341 ; Publications Received, 342. 



Notes and News. — Meeting of the Sixteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, 343 ; 

 Biographieal notice of Osbert Salvin, 343 ; Personals, 346. 



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