Contents of Volume VI. 
chusetts, 123; The Whistling Swan in Massachusetts, 123; The 
Harlequin Duck and the Glossy and Wood Ibises in Southern 
Illinois, 124; The White-winged Gull ( Lariis leucopterus) in 
Massachusetts, 124; The Caspian Tern in California, 124; The 
Short-tailed Tern (. Hydrochelidon nigra ) in New England, 124; 
Notes on Leach’s Petrel ( Cymochorea leucorrhoa ), 125; Birds 
and Windows, 125; Notes on Birds Rare or accidental on Long 
Island, N. Y., 125; Distribution of Birds as influenced by in- 
crease of Water Area, 126; Supplementary List of Birds of the 
Island of Santa Lucia, W. I., 128; Winter Birds of Fort Walla 
Walla, W. T., 128. 
NUMBER III. 
Description of Four New Species of Haitian Birds. (JPlate 
/.) By Charles B. Cory . . . . . . . .129 
Habits of the Black Brant in the Vicinity of St. Michaels, 
Alaska. B y F. W. Nelson . . • . . . . . 131 
Field Notes on the Birds of San Juan County, Colorado. 
By Frank M. Drew ......... 138 
Breeding of the Acadian Owl (Nyctale acadica') in Masschu- 
setts. By William Brewster ....... 143 
Songs of the Western Meadow Lark (St-urnella neglecta ). By 
Charles N. Allen. .......... 145 
List of the Birds of Hayti, taken in Different Parts of 
the Island between January i and March 12, 1881. By 
Charles B. Cory . . . . . . . . . .151 
On the Number of Primaries in Birds. By J. Amory Jeffries . 156 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Ridgway’s Nomenclature of North American Birds, 164; Ridgway’s 
Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Illinois, 17 1 ; Mearns’s Birds of 
the Hudson Highlands, 172 ; Rathbun’s “Bright Feathers or some 
North American Birds of Beauty,” 172; Holterhoff’s Notes on 
Western Birds, 173; Ridgway on a Duck new to the North 
American Fauna, 173; Ridgway on the Amazilia yucatanensis, 
Cabot, 173 ; Harvie-Brown’s Second Report on Scottish Orni- 
thology, 174; Godman and Salvin’s “ Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 
cana,” 174. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Nest and Eggs of the Painted Flycatcher, 176; Breeding of the 
Horned lai'k in Eastern New York, 177; Behavior of Leucosticte 
tephrocotis in Confinement, 177; Hesperiphona vespertma in 
Central Illinois, 179; Habits of the Swamp Sparrow in Confine- 
ment, 179; the Snowbird (Junco hyemalis ) in Southern Illinois 
in June, 180; A singular Cage Plumage of the Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak, 180; Carnivorous Propensities of the Crow Black- 
bird, 180; Icterus baltimorei and Populus tremuloides , 183; 
A Peculiar Nest of the Baltimore Oriole, 182; The Three-toed 
Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus ) in Massachusetts, 182 ; A Second 
Massachusetts Specimen of the Red-bellied Woodpecker (Centurus 
carolinus ), 183; A curious Colaptes , 183; A Vernacular Synonymy, 
183 ; Nesting of KennicotPs Owl, 185 ; Breeding of the Acadian Owl 
in Eastern Massachusetts, 185; Early arrival in New England of 
the Least Bittern, 186; The Least Bittern in Northwestern Minne- 
