CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII. 
NUMBER I. 
Page. 
The Compliments of the Season. By Dr. Cones i 
New Brunswick Notes. By M. Chamberlain 6 
Bicknell’s Thrush (Turdus alicioe bicknelli') in New England. 
By William Brewster. ......... 12 
Notes on an Hermaphrodite Bird. By J. Amory Jeffries , . 17 
On a Collection of Birds lately made by Mr. F. Stephens 
in Arizona. By William Brewster . . . . . . 21 
Memoranda of a Collection of Eggs from Georgia.. , By H. 
B. Bailey . ..... . . . . . . , . 37 
Notes .on the Breeding Habits,, of Maximilian’s Jay ( Gymnor 
citta cyanocephala ) and Clarke’s Crow {Ficicorvus « Columbia - 
mis') . By B. F. Goss . . . . . . . 43 
Immaturity vs. Individual Variation. By Nathan Clifford Brown 46 
Nest and Eggs of Leconte’s Thrasher ( Harfforkynchus redivi- 
vus, lecontii). By G. Holterhojf \ Jr. „ v . 1 . -■ . .48 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Transactions of the Linnasan Society, 50; Saunders’s Notes on 
some Laridae from Peru and Chili, 54; Hoffman’s List of Birds 
observed at Fort Berthold, D. T-, 54; Canadian Birds, 55 ; Cory’s 
Beautiful and Curious Birds, 55 ; A Checking List of North 
American Birds, c6 •• Shufeldt’s Contributions to the Anatomy of 
Birds, 56. 
GENERAL NOTES. J 
Bendire’s Thrasher ( Harftorhynchus bendirii) in Colorado, ^7 ; The 
Water Thrush in Confinement, 57 ; An interesting flight of Pine 
Finches, 57; Oh Leconte’s. Bunting (Coturniculus lecontii) and 
other Birds observed in South-eastern Illinois, 58; Note on “Pas- 
serculus caboti,”'58 ; 'The 1 Cardinal Grosbeak in Massachusetts, 
59; Crows Fishing, 59; The Scissor-tail \Mitvulus forjicatus') at 
' Norfolk, Virginia, 59; The Calliope Hummingbird and Pygmy 
Owl in Montana, 59; On some remarkable pdints of relationship 
between the American Kingfishers, 59; Richardson’s Owl in 
‘ Southern New Plampshire, 61 ; The Burrowing Owl in Florida, 
61; Note on the Mississippi Kite, 61 ; Occurrence of the Swal- 
low-tailed Kite in Massachusetts, 61; The Baldpate in Rhode 
Island, 61 ; Geographical variation in size among certain Anatidae 
and Gruidse, 62; . Caspian Tern in Ohio, 62 ; Polygamy among 
1 Oscines, 63; The Prescient Power in Birds, 63; Migration of 
; Birds in the Mississippi Valley, 64. 
