BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NUTTiLL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLB 



Vol VIII. — OCTOBEB., 1SS3. — No. 4. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE, 



List of Birds Observed in the Vicinity 

 OF Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 

 March, April, and May, 1882. By y. A. 

 Allen and William Brevjsler 189 



Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter 

 B. Barrows, - . 198 



On a Bird new to Northern North 

 America. By C. Hart Merriam, M; D. . 213 



On an Apparently New Gull from East- 

 ern North America. By William Brew- 

 ster 214 



Breeding of the Harlequin Duck {His- 

 trionicus minutus). By C. Hart M,er riant, 

 M. D 220 



The American Ornithologist's Union . 221 



Recent Literature. — Goss's Birds of Kansas, 

 227; Beckham's Birds of Nelson County, Ken- 

 tucky, 227 ; Nutting and Ridgrvay on Costa Rican 

 Birds, 228; Migration of Birds, 228; Bean's 

 Notes on Birds collected in Alaska and Siberia, 

 231; Old World Birds in the National Museum, 

 231 ; Stcjneger on the Cygni7ice, 231 ; Turner on 

 Laffopiis mutus and its Varieties, 232; Reiche- 

 now "Die Vogel der zoologischen Garten," 232; 



Reichenow's "Die Enten vogel der zoologischen 

 Gallon, 232; Linden on Domestication of Wild 

 Ducks, 233; Minor Ornithological Publications, 

 233- 



General Notes.— The Willow Thrush and Hol- 

 bbll's Linnet in Illinois, 239; Nest and Eggs 

 oi Myiadestes townsendi, 239; The Mockingbird 

 in Western Kansas and the Northern Phalarope 

 in. Southern Wyoming, 240; The Gray-crowned 

 Finch in Confinement, 240; Description of the 

 Nest and Young of the Pygmy Owl ( Glaiicidium 

 glioma), 242; The Bald Eagle fishing, 242; A 

 Flock of White Herons {Herodias egretta) in 

 Eastern Massachusetts, 242; Herodias egretta at 

 Amherst, 243; Wilson's Snipe {Gallinago vjil- 

 soni) nesting in Massachusetts, 243; Baird's 

 Sandpiper at Scarborough, Maine, 243; Cory's 

 Shearwater {Pitffimis borealis) off the Coast of 

 Massachusetts, 244; Addendum to List of Birds 

 ascertained to occur within ten miles from Pont 

 de Monts, Province of Quebec, Canada; based 

 chiefly upon the notes of Napoleon A. Comeau, 

 244; The Movements of Certain Winter Birds, 

 245 ; The Ridg^vay Ornithological Club of Chi- 

 cago, 246. 



Index . . 247 



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