CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII. 
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NUMBER I. 
Page. 
On an apparently New Heron from Florida. By Robert 
Ridgway. ........... 1 
List of Birds observed at Houston, Harris Co., Texas, and 
Vicinity, and in the Counties Montgomery, Galveston, 
and Fori* Bend. By H. Nehrling . ...... 6 
On the Sesamoid at the front of the Carpus in Birds. By 
y. Amory yeffries. ......... 13 
Notes on Some of the Birds observed near Wheatland, 
Knox Co., Indiana, in the Spring of 1881. By Robert 
Ridgway. ... . . . . . . . *15 
Notes on the Habits and Changes of Plumage of the Aca- 
dian Owl ( Nyctale acadica ), with some additional Records 
of its Breeding in Massachusetts. By Willi. an Brewster . 23 
Description of a New Race of Peuccea ruficeps from Texas. 
By Nathan Clifford Brown- ........ 26 
On Kennicott’s Owl and some of its Allies, with a Descrip- 
tion of a proposed New Race. By William Brewster. . . 27 
A Reconnoissance in Southwestern Texas. By Nathan Clif- 
ford Brown. ........... 33 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Memorial Volume of Garrod’s Scientific Papers, 43 ; Shufeldt’s Os- 
teology of the North American Tetraonidse, 44; Illustrations of 
Ohio Nests and Eggs, 45 ; Shufeldt’s “The Claw on the Index 
Digit of the Cathartidse,” 46 ; Papers on Minnesota Birds, 47 ; 
Freke on the Birds of Amelia County, Virginia, 48; Langdon’s 
Field Notes on Louisiana Birds, 48 ; Krider’s Field Notes, 49; 
Langdon’s Zoological Miscellany, 50; Hoffman on the Birds of 
Nevada, 51. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Tufted Titmouse on Staten Island, N. Y. , 52; Nesting of the 
White-bellied Wren {Thryothorus bewicki leucogaster) , 52; An 
Erroneous Repord of the Orange-crowned Warbler ( Helmifi - 
thophaga celata ) in New Hampshire, 53 ; On the Generic Name 
Helminthophaga , 53; Dendrceca pal marnm again in Massachu- 
setts, 54; Ampelis cedrorum as a Sap-sucker. 54; Capture of 
Plectrophanes lapponicus in Chester, S. C., 54; Occurrence of 
Coturniculus lecontei in Chester County, South Carolina. 54; 
The Sharp-tailed Finch in Kansas, 55 ; Note on Mitrephanes , a 
New Generic Name, 55 ; Nesting of Kmpidonax minimus and 
Helmintherus ver?)tivorus in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 5,5 ; 
