CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11. 
NUMBER I. 
Page 
The Black-and-Yellow Warbler. By William, Brewster . . . 1 
Geographical Variation in Tukdus migratorius By Robert Ridgway 8 
Unusual Abundance of the Snowy Owl in New England. By Ruthven 
Deane 9 
Distribution of New England Birds. — A Eeply to Dr. T. M. Brewer. 
By //. A. Purdie . . .11 
Occurrence of the Barnacle Goose {Bernicla leucopsis) on Long Island, 
N. Y. By G. N. Lawrence ......... 18 
Capture of a Second Specimen of Helminthophaga lawrencei. By 
Harold Herrick . . 19 
Notice of a few Birds of rare or accidental Occurrence in New 
England. By H. A. Purdie 20 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Notices of five recent Ornithological Papers, 23. — Vennor’s Rapacious Birds 
of Canada, 24. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
A Humming-Bird new to the Fauna of the United States, 26. — Note on Podiceps 
dominicMS,26. — Eastward Range of the Ferruginous Buzzard {Archibuteo 
ferruyineus),, 26. — Occurrence of Leconte’s Bunting { Coturniculus lecontei) 
in Iowa, 26. — Audubon’s Warbler in Massachusetts, 27. — Occurrence of 
the Sooty Tern in Massachusetts, 27. — The Black Gyr-Falcon {Falco sacer 
var. labradora) in Massachusetts, 27. — Notes on Birds new to the Fauna of 
Maine, etc., 27. — Northern Range of the Sharp-tailed Finch {Ammodromu$ 
caudacutus), 28. 
NUMBER IL 
Corrections op Nomenclature in the Genus Siurus. By Dr. Elliott 
Coties,, U. S. A. . . ' . . .26 
Notes on the Breeding of the Black Tern {Hydrochelidon lariformis). 
By T. 8. Roberts 34 
Two Undescribed Nests op Californian Birds. By William Brewster 87 
A Contribution to ^^the Biography of Wilson’s Phalarope. By E. 
W. Nelson 88 
A Defence of his Catalogue of New England Birds. By Dr. T. M. 
Brewer 44 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Burroughs’s “Wake-Robin,” 48. — Minot’s “Land and Game Birds of New 
England,” 49. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Western Range of Connrus carolinensis, 50. — Fecundity of the Carolina Wren, 60. 
— The Louisiana Heron in Indiana, 51. — Note on the Cinnamon Teal 
( Querquedula cyanoptera),^ 51. — jEgiothus exilipes in Europe, 51. — Note on 
Cupidonia cupido var. pallidicinctus, Ridgway, 52. — Capture of the Egyptian 
Goose on Long Island, N. Y., 52. — MacCown’s Longspur in Illinois, 52. 
