BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NOTTILL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 



Vol VIII. — JJL^TJAKir, 1883. — No. 1. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Compliments of the Season. By Dr. 

 Coues I 



New Brunswick Notes. By AI. Chamber- 

 lain 6 



Bicknell's Thrush ( Turdus alicice hicknelli) 

 IN New England. By William Brewster. 12 



Notes on an Hermaphrodite BiitD. By 

 y. Amory Jeffries 17 



On a Collection of Birds lately made 

 BY Mr. F. Stephens in Arizona. By 

 William Brewster 21 



Memoranda of a Collection of Eggs from 

 Georgia. By H. B. Bailey 37 



NOTES^ON THE BREEDING HABITS OF MAXI- 

 MILIAN'S JaY ( Gymnocitta cyanocepkala) and 

 Clarke's Crow {Picicorvus columhianus). 

 By B. F. Goss 43 



Immaturity vs. Individual Variation. By 

 Nathan Clifford Brown 46 



Nest and Eggs of Leconte's Thrasher 

 {Harporhyncltus redivivus lecontii): By G. 

 Holterhoff, Jr 48 



Recent Literature. — The Transactions of the 

 Linnaean Society, 50; Saunders's Notes on some 

 Laridae from Peru and Chili, 54; Hoffman's List 

 of Birds observed at Fort Berthold, D.T., 54; 



Canadian Birds, 55; Cory's Beautiful and Curious 

 Birds, 55 ; A Checking- List of Noi-th American 

 Birds, 56; Shufeldt's Contributions to the Anato- 

 my of Birds, 56. 



General Notes, — Bendire's Thrasher {Harpo- 

 rhynchus hendirii) m Colorado, 57 ; The Water 

 Thrush in Confinement, 57 ; An interesting- flight 

 of Pine Finches, 57 ; On Leconte's Bunting ( Co- 

 turniculus lecontei) and other Birds observed in 

 South-eastern Illinois, 5S; Note on "Passerculus 

 caboti," 5S; The Cardinal Grosbeak in Massachu- 

 setts, 59 ; Crows Fishing, 59; The Scissor-tail 

 {Milvuliis forficatus) at Norfolk, Virginia, 59; 

 The Calliope Hummingbird and Pi^my Owl in 

 Montana, 59 ; On some remarkable points of rela- 

 tionship between the American Kingfishers, 59; 

 Richardson's Owl in Southern New Hampshire, 

 61 ; Th-e Burrowing Owl in Florida, 61 ; Note on 

 the Mississippi Kite, 6] ; Occurrence of the Swal- 

 low-tailed Kite in Massachusetts, 61 ; The Bald- 

 pate in Rhode Island, 61 ; Geographical variation 

 in size among certain Anatidse and Gruidse, 63; 

 Caspian Tern in Ohio, 62; Polygamy among 

 Oscines,63; The Prescient Power in Birds, 63; 

 Migration of Birds in the Mississippi Valley, 64. 



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