Contents of Volume V. 
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(JEgialitis wilscnia ) on Long Island, 186; Number of Eggs of Arden hero - 
dins , 187; The Little Brown Crane {Grus f rater cuius, Cassin), 187; Note 
on Grus f 'rater cuius of Cassin, 188; Bucephala islandica and Bucephala 
clangula , 189; The King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) on the California 
Coast, 189; Capture of the Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus) on Long Island, 
189; Occurrence of the Gannet(£w/a bassana) in Northern New York, 190; 
Capture of Leach’s Petrel 160 Miles from the Sea, 190; The Winter Change 
of Plumage in the Black Guillemot, 190; Notes on Birds of St. Louis, Mo., 
191 ; Destruction of Birds by Drowning, 192. 
NUMBER IY. 
“ Behind the VeiL.” By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A 193 
Notes on the Northern Range of the Fisii Crow ( Corvus ossifragus), 
with some Account of its Habits. By Louis A. Zeregn . . . 205 • 
Description of a New Warbler of the Genus Hklminthophaga. Plate 
IV. By Frank W. Langdon 208 
List of Occurrences of North American Birds in Europe. Part III. 
By J. J. Dalgleish 210 
Description of the Eggs of the Caspian Tern ( Sterna caspia). By 
Robert Ridgway 221 
Notes on Colorado Birds. By H. D. Minot 223 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Cooper on the Migrations and Nesting Habits of West-Coast Birds, 232; Lang- 
don’s Ornithological Field Notes, 232; Stearns’s List of the Birds of Fishkill, 
New York, 233; Harvie-Brown on the Effects of an unusually severe Winter 
upon Scottish Birds, 233; Rathbun’s “Bright Feathers,” 234; Marsh’s 
Palaeornithology, 234 ; Cory’s “Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World,” 
236. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
A New Bird ( Polioptila ccerulea) for Maine, 236; Capture of the Carolina Wren 
and other Rare Birds in Rhode Island, 237 ; Note on Helminthophaga cin- 
cinnatiensis , Langdon, 237; Nest of Dendroeca ccerulescens , (L.)Bd.,238; 
Note on Giraud’s Muscicapa “ brasieri ,” 238; Additional Notes concerning 
the Black-capped Yireo in Texas, 239 ; The Philadelphia Yireo in Eastern New 
York, 239 ; Unusual Nesting site of the Snowbird, 239; Capture of a South 
American Finch near Providence, R. I., 240; Corvus ossifragus on Long and 
Staten Islands, N.Y., 240; Nest and Eggs of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 
(Empidonax flaviventris), 241 ; Notes on Nesting-sites of the Golden-winged 
W r oodpecker, 241; Capture of the Avocet in New Brunswick, 241; The 
Northern Phalarope in Chester County, South Carolina, 242 ; The Purple 
Gallinule in New England, 242; Colymbus septentrionalis again on the Hud- 
son, 242. 
INDEX 243 
PLATES IN VOLUME Y. 
I. - III. Osteology of Speotyto cunicularia hypog.ea. 
IV. Helminthophaga cincinnatiensis. 
