Contents of Volume VIII. 



NUMBER IV. 



Page. 

 List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of Colorado Springs, 



Colorado, during March, April, and May, 18S2. Bj J. A. 



Allen and William Bretvster ....... 189 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. Bj Walter B. Barrows, . . 198 

 On a Bird new to Northern North America. Bj C. Hart 



Merriam, M. D 213 



On an Apparently New Gull from Eastern North America. 



Bj William Brevjster . . . . . . . . .214 



Breeding of the HARLEquiN Duck {Histriotiicus minutiis'). Bj 



C. Hart Merriam, M. D. ....... . 220 



The American Ornithologist's Union . . . . . .221 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Goss's Birds of Kansas, 227 ; Beckham's Birds of Nelson Countj, Ken- 

 tuckj, 227; Nutting and Ridgwaj on Costa Rican Birds, 228; 

 Migration of Birds, 228; Bean's Notes on Birds collected in 

 Alaska and Siberia, 231 ; Old World Birds in the National Mu- 

 seum, 231 ; Stejneger on the Cjgninge, 231 ; Turner on Lagofus 

 ;««/«<5 and its Varieties, 232 ; Reichenow's "Die Vogel der zoolo- 

 gischen Garten," 232 ; Reichenow's "Die Entenvdgel der zoolo- 

 gischen Garten, 232 ; Linden on Domestication of Wild Ducks, 

 233 ; Minor Ornithological Publications, 233. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The Willow Thrush and HolboU's Linnet in Illinois, 239; Nest 

 and Eggs of Myiadestes totunsetidi, 239; The Mocking Bird in 

 Western Kansas and the Northern Phalarope in Southern Wjo- 

 ming, 240; Nest and Eggs of Partis montanus, 240; The Graj- 

 crowned Finch in Confinement, 240; Description of the Nest 

 and Young of the Pvgmj Owl {^Glaucidinm gjioma), 242; The 

 Bald Eagle fishing, 242 ; A Flock of White Herons {^Herodias 

 egretta) in Eastern Massachusetts, 242 ; Herodias egretta at 

 Amherst, 243; Wilson's Snipe {Gallinago wilsotii) nesting in 

 Massachusetts, 243 ; Baird's Sandpiper at Scarborough, Maine, 

 243 ; Corj's Shearwater (^Puffinus borealis^ off the Coast of 

 Massachusetts, 244; Addendum to List of Birds ascertained 

 to occur within ten miles from Pont de Monts, Province of 

 Quebec, Canada; based chieflj upon the Notes of Napoleon 

 A. Comeau, 244; The Movements of Certain Winter Birds, 

 245; The Ridgwaj Ornithological Club of Chicago, 246. 



Index ............. 247 



