Cotttents of Vohane VIII. 



NUMBER II. 



Page. 



The Vernal Migration of Warblers on Wolf River, Ontaga- 



Mic County, Wisconsin. By F. L. Grundtvig . . . -65 



The Common Names of American Birds. By Ernest Ingersoll . 72 



Description of a Hybrid Sparrow {Zonotrickia albicollis -\- Jtinco 



hiemalis). By Charles H. Toivusend . . . . . -78 



Note on Exceptions to the Law of Increase in Size Northward 



among North American Birds. By jf^. A. Allen . . .80 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Waller B. Barroxvs . . . 82 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Santo Domingo. 



By Charles B. Cory ......... 94 



Holboll's Red-poll {ySgioikus linaria holboelli) in New Eng- 

 land. By William Brewster ....... 95 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 99; Birds and Insects, 105; 

 Economic Relations of Birds again, 107; Report on the Birds of 

 Ohio, no; Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of 

 Ohio, 112; Brown's Birds of Portland, 112; Ridgvvay on the 

 Tree-creepers, 113 ; Ridgway's Review of the Genus Centurus, 114; 

 Lawrence on New Species of Birds, 114; Freke on North Ameri- 

 can Birds crossing the Atlantic, 114; Freke on European Birds 

 observed in North America, 115; Canadian Birds — Errata, 115; 

 Minor Ornithological Publications. 116. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Probable breeding of the Winter Wren (yAnorthura troglodytes hie- ■ 

 malls') in Eastern Massachusetts, 119; The Winter Wren {^Anor- 

 thura troglodytes hiemalis) in Western Vermont, 120; Troglodytes 

 aedo?i I)arkmani in Kansas, 120; Capture of the Great Carolina 

 Wren {Thryothorics liidovicianus) in Connecticut, in March, 120; 

 A second instance of the Wintering of the Pine Warbler in 

 Massachusetts, 120; Development of a brood of Black-and-3'ellovv 

 Warblers {Dendrozca maculosa), 121 ; Capture of ^Egiothiis lina- 

 ria holboelli \n the Lower Hudson Valley, 121 ; Individual Varia- 

 tion in Color in the European Crossbill, 121 ; The Cow Bunting 

 wintering in Massachusetts, 121 ; An unusual Influx of the Three- 

 toed Woodpeckers {Picoides arcticus and P. americanus) into 

 Eastern Massachusetts, 122 ; The Barn Owl in Canada West, 122 ; 

 Capture of Richardson's Owl {Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni) 

 near Providence, R. I., 122; Capture of the Great Gray Owl in 

 Massachusetts, 123; Recent occurrence of the Flammulated Owl 

 in Colorado, 123; Capture of the Golden Eagle at Albany, N. Y., 

 123; Wintering of the Sora Rail at the North, 124; Nesting- 

 Habits of the Canada Goose {Bernicla canadensis), 124; Larus 

 glaucescens in the Bay of Fundy, 125; Occurrence oi Larus glau- 

 cescens at Grand Menan, N. B., 125; The White-winged Gull in 

 Maine, 125; The Roseate Tern on the Coast of Maine, 126; 

 Winter Birds in New Brunswick, 126; Some Albinos in the 

 Museum of the Philadelphia Academy, 126; A Letter from" an 

 Old-time Ornithologist, 127; Eggs of British Birds in Exchange 

 for Eggs of American Birds, 128. 



