Cofitents of Volume I III. 



NUMBER III. 



Page 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows . . 128 

 Bird Notes from Western Ontario. By T. Mcll-wraith . . 143 

 Notes on some of the Winter Birds of Massachusetts. By 



Herbert K. Job .......... 147 



List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of Colorado Springs, 



Colorado, during March, April, and May, 1882. By J. 



A. Allen and William Brewster . . . . . -151 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



Sterns and Coues's "New England Bii-d Life," 161 ; Evei-ett Smith's 

 Catalogue of Maine Birds, 164; Contributions to the Anatomy of 

 Birds, 168; Ridgway on New Species and Sub-species of Birds, 

 168; Reichenow and Shalow's Compendium of newly discovered 

 Genera and Species of Bii'ds, 169; Reichenow's Conspectus Psit- 

 tacorum, 169; Stejneger on two new Races of Myiadestes obscu- 

 rus, 170; Stejneger's Synopsis of the West India Species of 

 Myiadestes, 170; National Museum Desiderata of American Birds, 

 170; Dubois on Geographical Variation in the Crossbills, 170; 

 Birds of Pennsylvania, 171 ; Minor Ornithological Publications, 

 171. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Capture of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (^Polioptila ccerttlea) in Connect- 

 icut. 179; Parkman's Wren in Illinois, 179; Breeding of the 

 Short-billed Marsh Wren {Cistotkorus stellaris) in the Hudson 

 Highlands, 179; Early Capture of the Orange-crowned Warbler, 

 179; Occurrence of Siurus ncevius in Greenland, 179; Capture of 

 the Yellow-breasted Chat at Albany, N. Y., 180; Nest of Chrysomi- 

 tris pimis at Sing Sing, N. Y., 180; Susceptibility of a Bird to color, 

 181 ; The Lark Finch again in Massachusetts, 181 ; The Meadow 

 Lark (^Sturnella magna) in Vermont in Winter, 182 ; Geococcyx 

 as a Vocalist, 182 ; A partial Albino Short-eared Owl (^Asio accipi- 

 trinus), 183; Great -Gray Owl in Rhode Island, 183; Occurrence 

 of a third Massachussetts specimen of the Labrador Gj'rfalcon 

 {Falco gyrfalco obsoletiis'), 184; Instance- of Semi-domestication 

 of California Qviail, 1S4; The Wood Ibis in Massachusetts, 185; 

 The Scarlet Ibis in Florida, 185; Rails and Snipe in Ohio in 

 Winter, 186; Breeding of the Mallard in New England, 186; The 

 Glaucous Gull {^Larus glaucus') at Portland, Me., 186; The Com- 

 mon Cormorant on the coast of South Carolina, 186; Occurrence 

 of the Northern Phalarope and Audubon's Warbler, and Nesting 

 of the Mocking Bird in Western Kansas, 186; A California Bird- 

 Wave, 188. 



