BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 
% (L^uartcrln Journal of ©mitbologir. 
Vol. VI. — JLFXIXX., 1881. — No. 2. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
Notes on Some Birds from Arizona and 
New Mexico, with a Description of 
a supposed New Whip-poor-will. By 
William Brewster 65 
Remarks on the present State of the 
Systema Avium. By P. L. Sclater ... 73 
Description, of a New Species of the 
Family Procellariidce. By Charles B. Cory 84 
Field Notes on the Birds of San Juan 
County, Colorado. By Frank M. Drew . 85 
Critical Notes on a Petrel new to 
North America. By William Brewster 91 
Some Observations on the Migration 
of Birds. By W. E. D. Scott 97 
On the affinities of Certain Polioptilce. 
with a Description of a New Species, 
By William Brewster ........... 101 
Recent Literature. — Vogt on the Second fos- 
sil Archaeopteryx , 107; Nehrling’s Ornitholog- 
ical Observations in Texas, 109; Shufeldt’s 
Osteological Memoirs, 109; Forbes on the Food 
of Birds, Insects, and Fishes, no; Reichenow 
and Schalow’s Record of the Literature of 
Ornithology for 1879, hi; Reichenow and Schal- 
ow’s Compendium of newly described Genera 
and Species of Birds, 111; Cory’s “Beautiful 
and Curious Birds of the World,” hi; Minor 
Ornithological Papers, 112. 
General Notes. — Abundance of the Hermit 
Thrush in winter near Washington, D. C., 
1 1 3 ; The Hudsonian Titmouse in Massachusetts, 
1 14; On the Range of Lophophanes atrocri sta- 
tus in Texas, 114; The Connecticut Warbler 
( Oporornis agilis ) — a Correction, 1 14; Strange 
nesting habits of a pair of Chats, 114; Song of 
the White-bellied Swallow ( Iridoprocne bicolor), 
(rfambnOge, glass. : 
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1 15; The White-bellied Swallow ( Tachycineta 
bicolor) on the New Jersey Coast in November 
115; A New Bird {Plectrophanes pictus) for 
South Carolina, 115, The Ipswich Sparrow 
( Passerculus princeps at Squam Beach, New 
Jersey, 116; Note on the Field Sparrow ( Spizella 
pusilla), 1 16; Bell’s Finch ( Poospiza belli neva- 
densis) in New Mexico, 116; Peculiar Nidifi- 
cation of the Bobolink, 117; Southern Range 
of the Raven on the Atlantic Coast of the 
United Slates, 118; The White-necked Raven 
( Corvus cryptoleucus ) in New Mexico, 118; 
Remarkable Persistency in Nesting of the West- 
ern Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, 119; Notes on the 
Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker and Canada 
Jay, 1 19; Capture of the Red-bellied Woodpecker 
( Centum s carol inns) in Eastern Massachusetts, 
120; Novel Nesting-sites of Woodpeckers ( Co - 
laptes auratus and Melanerpes erythrocephalus ) , 
120; An Unaccountable Migration of the Red- 
headed Woodpecker, 120; Breeding of the Wild 
Pigeon in confinement, 122; Large Eagles, 122; 
Eagles attempting the rescue of a wounded com- 
panion, 122; Richardson’s Owl in Rhode Island, 
123; The Avocet ( Recurvirostra americana) in 
Massachusetts, 123; The Whistling Swan in 
Massachusetts, 123; The Harlequin Duck and 
the Glossy and Wood Ibises in Southern Illinois, 
124; The White-winged Gull {Earns leucopterus) 
in Massachusetts, 124; The Caspian Tern in 
California, 124; The Short -tailed Tern {Hydro- 
chelidon nigra) in New England, 124; Notes on 
Leach’s Petrel {Cymochorea leucorrkoa), 125; 
Birds and Windows, 125 ; Notes on Birds Rarqor 
Accidental on Long Island, N.Y., 125; Distri- 
bution of Birds as influenced by increase of 
Water Area, T26; Supplementary List of Birds of 
the Island of Santa Lucia, W. I., 128; Winter 
Birds of Fort Walla Walla, W. T., 128. 
W. H. Wheeler, Printer, iy Brighton St., Cambridge, Mass. 
