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Contents of Volume VI. 
sota, 186; Occurrence of the Purple and Florida Gallinules near 
St. John, New Brunswick, 186; The Yellow Rail ( K Porza?ia novebo- 
racensis ) in Massachusetts, 186; Exceptional Abundance of the 
Shoveller at Portland, Me., 187 ; The Velvet Scoter at Green Bay, 
Wise., 187; Lams glciucus in Texas, 187; The Ivory Gull ( Pago - 
fhila eburnea ) at St. John, New Brunswick, 187; A Correction, 
188; Migration of Birds at Night, 188: Birds and Windows, 188/ 
NUMBER IV. 
On Some of the Causes Affecting the Decreasc of Birds. 
By H. W. He?ishaw ......... 189 
On the Ossicle of the Antibrachium as found in some of 
the North American Hawks. By R. W. Shufeldt , M. D ., 
Caft. Med. Deft. U. S. Army . . . . . . *197 
Oological Notes from Montana. By Dr. J. C. Merrill , U. S. A. 203 
On a tropical American Hawk to be added to the North 
American Fauna. By Robert Ridgway 207 
On Podicefs occidentalis and P. clarkii. By II. W. Henshaw . .214 
On the Relationship of He l m in thofh a ga leucobronchia l is, Brew- 
ster, and Hehninthofkaga lawrencei , Herrick; with some 
Conjectures respecting certain other North American 
Birds. By William Brewster . . . . . . .218 
Preliminary List of Birds ascertained to occur in the Adi- 
rondack Region, North-eastern New York. By C. Hart 
Merriam , M. D. ........ . 225 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Stearns and Coues’s “New England Bird Life,” 236; Cory’s “Beautiful 
and Curious Birds,” 239; Minot’s “Land and Game Birds of New 
England,” 241. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Golden-crested Wren breeding in the Colorado Valley, 244: 
Notes on the Winter Wren ( Anorthura troglodytes hy emails ') , 
244: Two more specimens of Helminthophaga leucobronchia- 
lis ) from Sing Sing, N. Y., 245; Another specimen of Siurus 
motacilla at Lake George, N. Y., 245; Myiodioctes canadensis 
in Kansas 246; Capture of the Worm-eating Warbler in Massa- 
chusetts, 246 ; Melosfiza lincolni breeding in New York again, 
246; Xanthocephalus icterocefhalus in Lower Canada, 246; 
Colaftes auratus-\-C. mexicanus , 247; Further Notes on the Lab- 
rador Gvrfalcon taken on Long Island, N. Y., 247;. Probable 
Occurrence of Sarcorhamfhus fafa in Arizona, 248; Nyctkerodius 
violaceus in Kansas, 248; Capture of the Snowy Heron ( Garzetta 
candidissima ) on Long Island, 248 ; Lobifes hyferboreus at 9500 
feet. 249; Breeding of Barrow’s Golden-eye in Lower Canada, 
249; Notes on a few Maine Birds, 249; Destruction of Birds by 
a storm while migrating, 250; Additions to the Avi-fauna of the 
United States, 252. 
Index 
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