BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 
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Vol. VI. — JT7X.T, 1881. — No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Descriptions of Four New Species of 
Haitian Birds (Plate I). By Charles B. 
Cory , 129 
Habits of the Black Brant in the Vi- 
cinity of St. Michaels, Alaska. By 
E. W. Nelson 13 1 
Field Notes of the Birds of San Juan 
County, Colorado. By Frank M. Drew 13S 
Breeding of the Acadian Owl {Nyctale 
acadica) in Massachusetts. By William 
Brewster 143 
Songs of the Western Meadow Lark 
(Stumella neglecta). By Charles N. Allen.- 145 
List of the Birds of Haiti, taken in dif- 
ferent PARTS OF THE ISLAND BETWEEN 
January i and March 12, 1881. By 
Charles B. Cory 151 
On the Number of Primaries in Birds. 
By J. Amory Jeffries 156 
Recent Literature. — Ridgway’s Nomenclature 
of North American Birds, 164; Ridgway’s Re- 
vised Catalogue of the Birds of Illinois, 171 ; 
Mearns’s Birds of the Hudson Highlands, 172; 
Rathbun’s “ Bright Feathers or Some North 
American Birds of Beauty,” 172; Holterhoff’s 
Notes on Western Birds, 173; Ridgway on a 
Duck new to the North American Fauna, 173; 
Ridgway on the Amazilia yucatanensis , Cabot, 
173; Harvie-Brown’s Second Report on Scottish 
Ornithology, 174; Godman and Salvin’s “Biologia 
Central i- Americana,” 174. 
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General Notes. — Nest and Eggs of the Painted 
Flycatcher, 176; Breeding of the Horned Lark in 
Eastern New York, 177; Behavior of Leucosticte 
tephrocotis in Confinement, 177; Hesperiphona 
vespertina in Central Illinois, 179; Habits of the 
Swamp Sparrow in Confinement, 179; The Snow- 
bird ( Junco hy emails) in Southern Illinois in 
June, 180 ; A Singular Cage Plumage of the Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak, 180; Carnivorous Propensities 
of the Crow Blackbird, 180; Icterus haltimorei 
and Populus tremuloides , 181 ; A Peculiar Nest 
of the Baltimore Oriole, 182; The Three-toed 
Woodpecker ( Picoides arcticus) in Massachusetts, 
182; A Second Massachusetts Specimen of the 
Red-bellied Woodpecker ( Centurus carolinus), 
183; A curious Colaptes, 183; A Vernacular Sy- 
nonymy, 183; Nesting of Kennicott’s Owl, 185; 
Breeding of the Acadian Owl in Eastern Massa- 
chusetts, 185 ; Early Arrival in New England of 
the Least Bittern, 186; The Least Bittern in 
Northwestern Minnesota, 186; Occurrence of the 
Purple and Florida Gallinules near St. John, New 
Brunswick, 186; The Yellow Rail ( Porzana nove- 
boracensis in Massachusetts, 186; Exceptional 
Abundance of the Shoveller at Portland, Me., 187; 
The Velvet Scoter at Green Bay, Wise,, 187; 
Earns Glaucus in Texas, 187; The Ivory Gull 
{Pagophila eburnea ) at St. John, New Brunswick, 
187; A Correction, 188; Migration of Birds at 
Night,. 188; Birds and Windows, 188. 
W. H. Wheeler , Printer , 77 Brighton St., Cambridge , Mass. 
