VI 
Contents of Volume VI. 
NUMBER II. 
Notes on Some Birds from Arizona and New Mexico, with a 
Description of a supposed New Whip-poor-will. By Wil- 
liam Brewster . . ....... 65 
Remarks on the present State of the Systema Avium. By 
P. L. Sclater 73 
Description of a New Species of the Family Pr ocellar iidce. 
By Charles B. Cory ......... 84 
Field Notes on the Birds of San Juan County, Colorado. By 
Frank M. Drew .......... 85 
Critical Notes on a Petrel new to North America. By 
William Brewster .......... 91 
Some Observations on the Migration of Birds. By W. E. D. 
Scott ..... ... .... 97 
On the Affinities of certain Polioptilce , with a Description 
of A New Species. By William Brewster .... 101 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Vogt on the Second fossil Archaeopteryx , 107 ; Nehrling’s Ornitholog- 
ical Observations in Texas, 109; Shufeldt’s Osteological Memoirs. 
109; Forbes on the Food of Birds, Insects, and Fishes, no; 
Reichenow and Schalow’s Record of the Literature of Ornith- 
ology for 1879, 111 ; Reichenow and Schallow’s Compendium of 
newly described Genera and Species of Birds, in; Cory’s “Beau- 
tiful and Curious Birds of the World,” 111 ; Minor Ornithological 
Papers, 112. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Abundance of the Hermit Thrush in winter near Washington, D. C., 
1 13; The Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts, 114; On the 
Range of Lophophanes atrocristatus in Texas, 114; The Con- 
necticut Warbler {Oporornis agilis) — a Correction, 1 14 ; Strange 
nesting habits of a pair of Chats, 114; Song of the White-bellied 
Swallow (. Iridoprocne bicolor ), 1 15 ; The White-bellied Swallow 
( Tachycineta bicolor ) on the New Jersey Coast in November 115; 
A New Bird ( K Plectro / />ha?ies pictus) for South Carolina, 1T5. The 
Ipswich Sparrow ( Passerculus princeps ) at Squan Beach, New 
Jersey, 116; Note on the Field Sparrow ( Spizella pusilla ), 116; 
Bell’s Finch ( Poospiza belli nevadensis) in New Mexico, 116; 
Peculiar Nidification of the Bobolink, 1 1 7 ; Southern Range of 
the Raven on the Atlantic Coast of the United States, 118; The 
White-necked Raven ( Corvus cryptoleucus ) in New Mexico, 118; 
Remarkable Persistency in Nesting of the Western Yellow-bellied 
Flycatcher, 119; Notes on the Black-backed Three-toed Wood- 
pecker and Canada Jay, 119; Capture of .the Red-bellied Wood- 
pecker (Centurus carolinus) in Eastern Massachusetts, 120; Novel 
Nesting-sites of Woodpeckers ( Colaptes auratus) and Melan- 
erpes erythrocephalns), 120; An Unaccountable Migration of the 
Red-headed Woodpecker, 120; Breeding of the Wild Pigeon in 
confinement, 122; Lai'ge Eagles, 122; Eagles attempting the 
rescue of a wounded companion, 122; Richardson’s Owl in Rhode 
Island, 123; The Avocet ( Recurvirostra americana ) in Massa- 
