Contents of Volume V. vii 
the Snowbird ( Junco hyemalis) in the Mountains of Pennsylvania, 121 ; 
The Flammulated Owl (Scops Jlammeola) in Colorado, 121; Capture of the 
Great Gray Owl in the Adirondacks, N.Y;, 122; Capture of the Northern 
Phalarope ( Lobipes hyperboreus) in Massachusetts, 122; On the Supposed 
Identity of Ardea occidentalis, Aud., and A. wiirdemanni, Bd., 122: The 
Little Blue Heron in Rhode Island, 123; Note on the Little Brown Crane 
( Grus f rater cuius, Cassin), 123 ; Notes on the Habits of Rallus obsoletus, with 
a Description of its Eggs, 124; An Unusual Flight of Whistling Swans in 
Northwestern Pennsylvania, 125; The European Widgeon in the United 
States, 126 ; On the Moult of the Bill, or Parts of its Covering, in Certain 
Alcidce, 126 ; Further Light on the Moult of the Bill in certain Mormonidce , 
127. 
NUMBER III. 
Shufeldt’s Memoir on the Osteology of Speotyto cunicularia hypogcea. 
By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. 129 
Destruction of Birds by Light houses. By J. A. Allen ... 131 
On Rallus longirostris , Bodd., and its Geographical Races. By Robert 
Ridgway 138 
List of Occurrences of North American Birds in Europe. Part II. 
By J. J. Dalgleish 141 
Origin of the Instinct of Migration in Birds. By J. A. Allen . . 151 
The Greater Long-beak, Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say). By Newbold 
T. Lawrence 154 
On Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel. ) and M. scolopaceus (Say). By Robert 
Ridgway 157 
On a new Alaskan Sandpiper. By Robert Ridgway .... 160 
List of the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, West Indies. By 
J. A. Allen 163 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Maynard’s Birds of Eastern North America, 170; Gregg’s Birds of Chemung 
County, N.Y., 173; Freke on Birds common to Europe and North America, 
173; Brayton’s Catalogue of the Birds of. Indiana, 174; Mearns’s Birds of 
the Hudson Highlands, 175; Harvie-Brown and Cordeaux’s Report on the 
Migration of Birds, 175; Ridgway on the Nomenclature of North American 
Birds, 177 ; Gentry’s Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Pennsylvania, 179 ; 
Ober’s Camps in the Caribbees, 179; Roberts on the Convolutions of the 
Trachea in the Sand-hill and Whooping Cranes, 179; Minor Ornithological 
Publications, 180. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Nest and Eggs of Catherpes mexicanus conspersus, 181 ; Dendrceca palmarum 
palmarum in New York, 182; The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendrceca 
coronata ) breeding in Eastern Maryland, 182; Notes and Queries on Nomen- 
clature of Birds, Genus Wilsonia, 183 ; Albinism in the Bohemian Wax- 
wing, 183; First Capture of the Blue Grosbeak in Massachusetts, 184; Note 
on the Nesting of Hammond’s Flycatcher ( Empidonax hammondi ) in Da- 
kota, 184; Scops jlammeola in Colorado, 185; An Owl-eating Owl, 185; 
Protection of the Nest by a Marsh Hawk (Circus cyaneus hudsonius ), 185; 
Note on the Nesting of the Fish-Hawk in Maine, 186 ; Wilson’s Plover 
