BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nttttatj, Ornithological Club: 
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Vol. V. — JULY, 1880. — No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
Shufeldt’s Memoir on the Osteology of Speolyto 
cuniculnria hypogrp.a. By Dr. Elliott Coues , 
U.S.A 129 
Destruction of Birds by Light-houses. By J. A. 
Allen 131 
On Rallus longirostris, Bodd., and its Geographical 
Races. By Robert Ridgway 138 
List of Occurrences of North American Birds 
in Europe. Part II. By J. J. Dalgleis/i 141 
Origin of the Instinct of Migration in Birds. By 
J. A. Allen 151 
The Greater Long-beak, Macrorhamphus scolo- 
paceus (Say). By Newbold T. Lawrence 154 
On Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.) and M. scolo- 
paceus (Say). By Robert Ridgway 157 
On a New Alaskan Sandpiper. By Robert Ridg- 
way 160 
List of the Birds of the Island of Santa Lucia, 
West Indies. By J. A. Allen 163 
Recent Literature. — Maynard’s Birds of Eastern North 
America, 170; Gregg’s Birds of Chemung County, 
N. Y., 173; Freke on Birds common to Europe and 
North America, 173 ; Brayton’s Catalogue of the Birds 
of Indiana, 174 ; Mearns’s Birds of the Hudson High- 
lands, 175; Harvie-Brown and Cordeaux’s Report on 
the Migration of Birds, 175 ; Ridgway on the Nomen- 
clature of North American Birds, 177 ; Gentry’s Nests 
and Eggs of the Birds of Pennsylvania, 179 : Ober’s 
Camps in the Caribbees, 179; Roberts on the Convo- 
lution of the Trachea in the Sandhill and Whooping 
Cranes, 179 ; Minor Ornithological Papers, 180. 
General Notes. — Nest and Eggs of Catherpes mexicanus 
conspersus , 181; Dendroeca palmarum palmarum in 
New York, 182; The Yellow-rumped Warbler (Den- 
droeca coronata ) breeding in Eastern Maryland, 182 ; 
Notes and Queries on Nomenclature of Birds, Genus - 
Wilsonia, 183; Albinism in the Bohemian Waxwing, 
183 ; First Capture of the Blue Grosbeak in Massa- 
chusetts, 184 : Note on the Nesting of Hammond’s 
Fly-catcher ( Empidonax hammondi) in Dakota, 184 ; 
Scops flammeola in Colorado, 185 ; An Owl-eating 
Owl, 185 ; Protection of the Nest by a Marsh Hawk 
( Circles cyaneus hudsonius), 185 ; Note on the Nesting 
of the Fish-Hawk in Maine, 186 ; Wilson's Plover 
(JEgidlitis wilsonia) on Long Island, 186 ; Number of 
Eggs of Ardea herodias , 187 ; The Little Brown Crane 
(Grus f rater cuius, Cassin), 187; Note on Grus frater- 
culus of Cassin, 188; Bucephala islandica and Ence- 
phala clangula , 189; The King Eider (Somateria 
spectabilis) on the Californian Coast, 189 ; Capture of 
the Glaucous Gull (Larus glaucus) on Long Island, 
J.89; Occurrence of the Gannet ( Sula bassana) in 
Northern New York, 190 ; Capture of Leach’s Petrel 
160 miles from the Sea, 190 ; The Winter Change of 
Plumage of the Black Guillemot, 190 ; Notes on Birds 
of St. Louis, Mo., 191 ; Destruction of Birds by Drown- 
ing 192. 
Caut&rttrgT, : 
PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB. 
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. 
