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man. In the. March number, Dr. W. Wood writes of the “Game Falcons 
of New England : the Goshawk” (pp. 132-135); J. A. Allen appears 
with a further note on Bartramian names (pp. 176, 177), and K. E. C. 
Stearns speaks of the abundance of Pelicans in San Francisco Bay, Cal. 
(p. 177). In the April number are notes on the breeding of the Bed 
Crossbill {Loxia curvirostra) at Riverdale, N. Y. (p. 237), by E. A. Bick- 
nell ; on Bewick’s Wren in New Jersey (p. 236), by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; on 
“Habits of Western Birds,” — Buteo swainsoni, Icterus bullochi, Stellula 
caliope, Corvus mnericanus, and G. corax, — (p. 238), by Dr. W. J. Hoff- 
man ; on “ Unusual Nesting-Sites of the Night-Hawk and Towhee Bunt- 
ing (p. 239), by Dr. Elliott Cones ; and on “ Small Birds [Ghrysomitris 
tristis and Dendroeca coronata] caught by the Burdock ” (p. 239), by A. K. 
Fisher. The May number contains a call for information respecting the 
distribution of the Labrador Duck, Camptolcemus labradorius (p. 303), by 
Dr. Coues. In the J une number is a record of the capture of the Euro- 
pean Woodcock in Virginia (p. 372), and a note on change of habits in the 
Bank Swallow (p. 373), by Dr. Coues ; also remarks on the food of the 
Chapparal Cock, Geococcyx californianus (p. 373), by V. T. Chambers. In 
the July number J. Clarence Hersey notes the occurrence of the Little 
White Egret {Ardea candidissima) in Colorado (p. 430). The August num- 
ber contains an account of a brief sojourn of large numbers of White Egrets 
at Trenton, N. J. (pp. 469-473), by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; Robert Ridgway here 
states that the Bank Swallows (p. 493) referred to in the June number are 
the Cotyle serrvpennis, instead of C. riparia, as first stated. In the September 
number appears an historical article on “ Progress of Ornithology in the 
United States during the Last Century ” (pp. 536 - 550), by J. A. Allen, and 
a note on Bluebirds feeding on the berries of the VAginia Creeper (p. 556), 
by Henry Gillman. The October number contains a note on the egg of 
Chionis (p. 628), by Dr. J. H. Kidder. An article in the December num- 
ber, by Dr. Elliott Coues, on the “ Destruction of Birds by Telegraph 
Wire” (pp. 734-736), concludes the ornithological articles of Volume X. 
In Volume XI we find, in the January number, “Notes on some Ore- 
gon Birds ” (p. 44), — seven species, — by George R. Bacon, and a note on 
the Whistling Duck, Bucephala americana (p. 44), by J. F. LeBaron. In 
the February number, notes on some of the birds of the Fanning Islands 
(pp. 68 - 72), by Dr. T. H. Streets ; in the April number, record of the occur- 
rence of the Raven and the Sooty Tern {Sterna fuliginosa) at Willianis- 
town, Mass. (p. 243), by Sanborn Tenney ; in the May number, “ Glimpses 
of Mind in Birds” (pp. 276-286), by Dr. C. C. Abbott ; some observa- 
tions on the winter birds of Arkansas (p. 307), by H. S. Reynolds ; and a 
note on a carnivorous propensity of the Red-headed Woodpecker, Mela- 
nerpes erythrocephalus (p. 308), by Charles Aldrich. In the June number 
Judge J. D. Caton writes of the “Wild Turkey and its Domestication” 
(pp. 321 -330). 
