BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
% (Juartcrln Journal of IknUImlogiL 
Vol. V. - APRIL, 1880. - No. 2. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
List of Occurrences of North American Biros 
in Europe. By J. J. Dalgleish 65 
Notes on the Winter Plumage of Leurosticte 
tephrorotis , Sw., AND L. tephrorotis VAR. lilt oralis, 
Bb. By Dr. J. C . Merrill , U. S. A 75 
Notes on the American Vultures ( Sarcorham - 
pliid<?.), with special reference to their Generic 
Nomenclature. By Robert Railway 77 
On Recent Additions to the Ornithological Fauna 
of North America. By J". A. Allen 85 
Description of the Adult Plumage of Hierofuka 
gyrfalco obsoletus. By Robert Ridgway 92 
Notes and Queries concerning the Nomenclature 
of North American Birds. By Dr. Elliott Coves. 
U. S. A. 95 
Thomas Mayo Brewer. By fke Editors 102 
Recent Literature. — Henshaw’s Report on Collections 
made in California, Nevada, and Oregon, in 1877-78, 
105 ; Cory’s Birds of the Bahama Islands/ 107 ; Me- 
Chesney’s Report on the Mammals and Birds' of the 
Big Horn Region, Montana, 107 ; Brewer’s Additional 
Notes on New England Birds, 108 ; Kumlien’s Contri- 
butions to the Natural History of Arctic America, 109; 
Gibbs’s List of the Birds of Michigan, 110 ; Harvie- 
Brown on the Capercaillie in Scotland, 110 ; Sennett’s 
Notes on the Birds of the Lower Rio Grande of Texas, 
111 ; Minot’s Diary of a Bird, 112 ; Manor Ornitholo- 
gical Papers, 112. 
General N otes . — Capture of the Stonechat , near Eas tpor t, 
Maine, 115; A Crossbilled Horned Lark, 115; Capture 
of the Prothonotary Warbler ( Protbnolaria titrea) near 
Philadelphia, 115: The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmin- 
t/ierns vermivonts) breeding in Southern Connecticut, 
116 ; The Large-billed Water Thrush ( Slums motacillu) 
in Eastern Rhode Island, 116 ; Notes on some of the 
Rarer Birds of Long Island, N. Y., 116; The Large- 
billed Water Thrush at Lake George, N. Y.j 117 ; Cap- 
ture of the Connecticut Warbler ( Oporornis agil : s) in 
Spring at New Haven, Conn., 117 ; A New Warbler 
(Myiodioctes mitratvs) for Massachusetts, 117 ; The 
Northern Waxwing ( Ampelis garrulus ) in Southern 
Illinois, 118 : The Bohemian Waxwing in Northern 
New York, 118; The Greenfinch ( Ligurinus chloris) 
in Northern New York, 119 ; Capture of escaped Gage- 
Birds having the Appearance of Wild Birds, 119; The 
Ipswich Sparrow ( Passerculus princeps) at New Haven, 
Conn., 121 ; Breeding of the Snowbird ( Junto hyemalis) 
in the Mountains of Pennsylvania, 121 ; The Flammu- 
lated Owl ( Scops flammeola ) in Colorado, 121 ; Capture 
of the Great Gray Owl in the Adirondacks, N. Y., 122; 
Capture of the Northern Phalarope {Lobipes hyperbo- 
reus) in Massachusetts, 122; On the Supposed Identity 
of Arden occidentalism Aud.,and A. Wurdemnnni , Bd., 
122 ; The Little Blue Heron in Rhode Jsland, 123 ; 
Note on the Little Brown Crane ( Grus fraterculus, Cas- 
sin), 123 ; Notes on the Habits of Rallies obsoletus, with 
a Desci-iption 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 cer- 
tain Alcidse, 126 : Further Light on the Moult of the 
Bill in certain Moimonidce. 127. 
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