BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NDTTALL ORNITHOLOCICIL CLUB: 



Vol. VIII. — JTJLir, 1SS3. — No. 3. 



CONTENTS. 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter 

 B. Barroivs 13 S 



Bird Notes from Western Ontario. By T. 

 Mcllwraith 143 



Notes 'on some of the Winter Birdj of 

 Massachusetts. By Herbert K. Job ... i 47 



List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of 

 Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 

 March, April, and May, 18S2. By J. A. 

 Allen and William Brewster 151 



Recent Literature.^ — Stearns and Coues's "New 

 England Bird Life," 161 ; Everett Smith's , Cata- 

 loj^ue of Maine Birds, 164; Contributions to tlie 

 Anatomy of Birds, 16S; Ridgway.on New Species 

 and Sub-species of Birds, [6S; Reichenow and 

 Shalow's Compendium of newly discovered Genera 

 and Species of Birds, 169; Reichenow's Conspectus 

 Psittacorum, 169; Stejneger on two new Races of 

 Myiadestes obscurus, 170; Stejneger's Synopsis of 

 the West India Species of Myiadestes, 170; Na- 

 tional Museum Desiderata of Amirican Birds, 

 170; Dubois on Geographical Variation in tlie 

 Crossbills, 170; Birds of Pennsylvania, 171; 

 Minor Ornithological Publications, 171. 



General Notes. — Capture of Bhie-gray Gnat- 

 catcher (i^o/zo/ZZ/a cceritlea) in Connecticut, 179; 

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

 Short-billed Marsh Wren (Cistotlioriis stellar is) 

 in the Hudson Highlands, 179; Early Capture of 

 the Orange-crowned Warbler, 179; Occurrence of 

 Si?irus ncBvius in Greenland, 179; Capture of tlie 

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

 of Chrysomitris pinus at Sing Sing, N. Y., 180; 

 Susceptibility of a Bird to color, 181 : The Lark 

 Finch again in Massachusetts, iSi ; The Meadow 

 Lark {Sturnella magna) in Vermont in Winter, 

 1S2 ; Geococcyx as a Vocalist, 1S2 ; A partial Albino 

 Short-eared Owl (yl5;'o accipitrinus), 1S3; Great 

 Gray Owl in Rhode Island, 1S3 ; Occurrence of a 

 third Massachussetts specimen of the Labrador 

 Gyrfalcon {Falco gyrfalco obsoletiis), 1S4; In- 

 stance of Seraidomestication of California Quail, 

 1S4; The Wood Ibis in Massachusetts, iSj; The 

 Scarlet Ibis in Florida, 185; Rails and Snipe in 

 Ohio in Winter, 1S6; Breeding of the Mallard in 

 New England, 186; The Glaucous Gull {Larus 

 glaticns) at ■ Portland, Me., 186; The Common 

 Cormorant on the coast of South Carolina, 1S6; 

 Occurrence of the Northern Phalarope and 

 Audubon's Warbler, and Nesting of the Mocking 

 Bird in Western Kansas, :86; A California Bird- 

 Wave, 18S. 



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