BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NUTTILL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 



Vol. VIII. — JLPB.I2., 1883. — No. 2. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Vernal Migration of Warblers on 

 Wolf River, Ontagamic County, Wis- 

 consin. By F. L. Gmndtvig 65 



The Common Names of American Bikds. 

 By Ertiest Ingersoll 72 



Description of a Hybrid Spakkow {Zono- 

 trichia alhicollis + Jiinco hiemalis). By 

 Charles H. Townsena 78 



Note on Exceptions to the Law of In- 

 crease IN Size Northward among North 

 American Birds. By y. A. Alleti .... 80 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter 

 B. Barrows 82 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds 

 from Santo Domingo. By Charles B. 

 Cory 94 



Holboll's Red-poll (^JEffiothus Ihiaria hol- 

 boelli) in New England. By William 

 Brewster , 95 



Recent Literature. — The British Museum Cat- 

 alogue of Birds, 99; Birds and Insects, 105; Eco- 

 nomic 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; Ridgway on the Tree- 

 creepers, 113; Ridgway's Review of the Genus 

 Centurus, 114; Lawrence on New Species of 

 Birds, 114; Freke on North American Birds 

 crossing the Atlantic, 114; Freke on European 

 Birds observed in North America, 115; Canadian 

 Birds — Errata, 115; Minor Ornithological Pub. 

 lications, 116. 



General Notes. — Probable breeding of the Win- 

 ter Wren {Atiorthura troglodytes hiemalis) in 

 Eastern Massachusetts, 119; The Winter Wren 

 {Anorthura troglodytes hiemalis) in Western 

 Vermont, 120; Troglodytes aedon parkmani in 

 Kansas, 120; Capture of^lie Great Carolina Wren 

 ( Thryothorus ludovicianns) in Connecticut, in 

 Marcli, 120; A second instance of the Wintering 

 of the Pine Warbler in Massachusetts, 120; De- 

 velopment of a brood of Black-and-yellow "War- 

 blers {Dendroeca maculosa), 121; Capture of 

 ^giotlms linaria holboelli in the Lower Hudson 

 Valley, 121 ; Individual Variation in Color in the 

 European Crossbill, 121 ; The Cow Bunting win- 

 tering in Massachusetts, 121 ; An unusual Influx 

 of the Three-toed Woodpeckers {Picoides arcticiis 

 and P. americanus) into Eastern Massachusetts, 

 122; The Barn Owl in Canada West, 122; Cap- 

 ture of Richardson's Owl (Nyctala tengmalmi 

 richardsoiii) 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; ISTesting Habits of the Canada 

 Goose {Ber7iicla canadensis), 124; Larus glau- 

 cescetis in the Bay of Fundy, 125; Occurrence of 

 Larus glaucesce7is at Grand Men an, 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. 



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