254 
Index. 
Avocet, 123. 
Bagg, Egbert, Jr., Melospiza lin- 
colni breeding in New York again, 
246. 
Bangs, E. A. and O., the White- 
winged Gull (. Laras leucopterus ) 
in Massachusetts, 124. 
Batchelder, Charles F., the Bald 
Eagle ( Haliaetus leucocepkalus ) 
as a hunter, 58; strange nesting 
habits of a pair of Chats, 114; 
Bendire, Charles, nesting of Ken- 
nicott’s Owl, 185. 
Berier, De L., notes on a few birds 
observed at Fort Hamilton, Long 
Island, N. Y., 11: notes on birds 
rare or accidental on Long Island, 
N. Y., 125; Colaptes auratus-\- 
C. mexicanus , 247 ; further notes 
on the Labrador Gyrfalcon taken 
on Long Island, N. Y., 247. 
Bernicla canadensis, 52, 234. 
sandvicensis, 52. 
Bird, Australian Lyre, 240. 
Crying, 20. 
Indigo, 251. 
Mocking, 112, 125. 
Mountain Mocking, 86. 
of Paradise, King, m. 
Bittern, 234. 
Least, 21, 186. 
Blackbird, Brewer’s, 128. 
Crow, 47, 180. 
Red-shouldered, 230. 
Rusty, 231. 
Western Red-winged, 128. 
Yellow-headed, 143, 246. 
Blackhead, Greater, 142. 
Lesser, 142. 
Bluebird, 24, 26, 53, no, 196, 226. 
Arctic, 86. 
Boardman, G. A., the Golden Eagle 
in New Brunswick, 58. 
Bobolink, 117, 330. 
Bonasa umbellus, 233. 
Botaurus lentiginosus. 234. 
Brant, Black, 13 1. 
Branta nigricans, 134. 
Brewster, William, with the birds 
on a Florida river, 38 ; a second 
occurrence of the Hudsonian Tit- 
mouse (Partis hudsonicus') in Mas- 
sachusetts, 54; another capture 
of the Loggerhead Shrike in 
Massachusetts, 55 ; a third capture 
of the Philadelphia Vireo ( Vireo 
j -philadelphicus ) in Massachusetts, 
56; recent occurrence of Baird’s 
Sandpiper ( Tringa bairdi ) in 
Maine, 60; a second Massachu- 
setts specimen of the Clapper 
Rail (. Rallies longiroslris), 62; 
notes on some birds from Arizona 
and New Mexico, with a descrip- 
tion of a supposed new Whip- 
poorwill, 65 ; critical notes on a 
Petrel new to North America, 91 ; 
on the affinities of certain Poliop- 
tilce , with a description of a new 
species, 101 ; the Short-tailed 
Tern ( Hydrochelidon nigra') in 
New England, 124; notes on 
Leach’s Petrel ( Cymochorea leu- 
corrhoa ), 125; breeding of the 
Acadian Owl ( Nyctale acadica ) 
in Massachusetts, 143 ; a singular 
cage plumage of the Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak, 180; carnivorous pro- 
pensities of the Crow Blackbird, 
180; the Three-toed Woodpecker 
(. Picoides arcticus ) in Massachu- 
setts, 182 ; a second Massachusetts 
specimen of the Red-bellied Wood- 
pecker ( Centurus carolinus ), 183 ; 
early arrival in New England of the 
Least Bittern, 186; occurrence of 
the Purple and Florida Gallinules 
near St. John, New Brunswick, 
186; the Yellow Rail ( Porzana 
noveboracensis ) in Massachusetts, 
186; the Ivory Gull ( Pagopkila 
eburnea ) at St.John, New Bruns- 
wick, 187 ; on the relationship of 
He l m in thopk a g a leucobronckialis 
Brewster, and Helminthophaga 
lawrencei , Herrick ; with some 
conjectures respecting certain oth- 
er North American Birds, 218; 
on Minot’s “Land and Game 
Birds of New England,” 242; ad- 
ditions to the Avi-fauna of the 
United States, 252. 
Brown, Nathan Clifford, exception- 
al abundance of the Shoveller at 
Portland, Me., 187. 
Browne, F. C-, distribution of birds 
as influenced by increase of water 
area, 126. 
Bryant, W. E., nest and eggs of the 
Painted Flycatcher, 176. 
Bubo virginianus, 232. 
Bucephala islandica, 162. 
Budytes flava, 4. 
Bunting, Cow, 230. 
Indigo, 230. 
Painted Lark, 1 15. 
Snow, 229. 
Buteola brachvura, 208, 210, 212. 
fuliginosus, 212. 
minutus, 210. 
