CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. 



NUMBER I. 



Page. 

 The Compliments of the Season. By Dr. Coues . . . i 



New Brunswick Notes. By M. Chamberlaiii ..... 6 

 Bicknell's Thrush {Turdiis alicioe bicknelli) in New England. 



By Wtlltatn Brewster. . . . . ■ ■ . . .12 



Notes on an Hermaphrodite Bird. By y. Amory Jeffries . 17 



On a Collection of Birds lately made by Mr. ¥. 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 Maximilian's Jay {Gymno- 



citta cyanocephala) and Clarke's Crow {Picicorvus cohimbia- 



mis). By B. F. Goss 43 



Immaturity vs. Individual Variation. By Nathan Clifford Brown 46 

 Nest and Eggs of Leconte's Thrasher (Harporkynchtis redivi- 



VHS lecontii'). By G. Holterkoff, Jr. ...... 48 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



The Transactions of the Linn^an 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 North 

 American Birds, 56; Shufeldt's Contributions to the Anatomy of 

 Birds, 56. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Bendire's Thrasher (^Harforhynchus bendirii) in Colorado, 57 ; The 

 Water Thrush in Confinement, 57; An interesting flight of Pine 

 Finches, 57; On Leconte's Bunting {^Cotiirniculus lecontii^ and 

 other Birds observed in South-eastern Illinois, 58; Note on "Pas- 

 serculus caboti,"58; The Cardinal Grosbeak in Massachusetts, 

 59; Ci-ows Fishing, 59; The Scissor-tail {Milvulus forjicatus) at 

 Norfolk, Virginia, 59; The Calliope Hummingbird and Pygmy 

 Owl in Montana, 59.; On some remarkable points of relationship 

 between the American Kingfishers, 59; Richardson's Owl in 

 Southern New Hampshire, 61 ; The Burrowing Owl in Florida, 

 61 ; Note on the Mississippi Kite, 61 ; Occurrence of the Swal- 

 low-tailed Kite in Massachusetts, 61 ; The Baldpate in Rhode 

 Island, 61 ; Geographical variation in size among certain Anatidae 

 and Gruidae, 62; Caspian Tern in Ohio, 62 ; Polygamy among 

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

 Birds in the Mississippi Valley, 64. 



