IV 
Contents of Volume VIII. 
NUMBER II. 
Page. 
The Vernal Migration of Warblers on Wolf River, Ontaga- 
mic County, Wisconsin. By F. L. Grundtvig . . . .65 
The Common Names of American Birds. By Ernest Ingersoll . 72 
Description of a Hybrid Sparrow ( Zonotrichia albicollis -f- Junco 
hiemalis). By Charles H. Townsend ...... 78 
Note on Exceptions to the Law of Increase in Size Northward 
among North American Birds. By J. A. Allen . . .80 
Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows . . .82 
Descriptions of New Species of Birds from Santo Domingo. 
By Charles B. Cory ......... 94 
Holboll’s Red-poll (. AEgiothus linaria holboelli ) in New Eng- 
land. By William Brewster ....... 95 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
The British Museum Catalogue of Birds, 99; Birds and Insects, 105; 
Economic Relations of Birds again, 107 ; Report on the Birds of 
Ohio, no; Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of 
Ohio, 112; Brown’s Birds of Portland, 112; Ridgway on the 
Tree-creepers, 113 ; Ridgway’s Review of the Genus Centurus , 114; 
Lawrence on New Species of Birds, 114; Freke on North Ameri- 
can Birds crossing the Atlantic, 114; Freke on European Birds 
observed in North America, 1 15 ; Canadian Birds — Errata, 115; 
Minor Ornithological Publications, 116. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Probable breeding of the Winter Wren ( Anorthura troglodytes hie- 
malis') in Eastern Massachusetts, 119; The Winter Wren (. Anor- 
thura troglodytes hiemalis ) in Western Vermont, 120; Troglodytes 
aedon fiarkmani in Kansas, 120; Capture of the Great Carolina 
Wren ( Thryothorus ludovicianus ) in Connecticut, in March, 120; 
A second instance of the Wintering of the Pine Warbler in 
Massachusetts, 120; Development of a brood of Black-and-yellow 
Warblers ( Dendroeca maculosa) , 12 1 ; Capture of AEgiothus lina- 
ria holboelli in the Lower Hudson Valley, 121 ; Individual Varia- 
tion in Color in the European Crossbill, 12 1 ; The Cow Bunting 
wintering in Massachusetts, 121 ; An unusual Influx of the Three- 
toed Woodpeckers (. Picoides arcticus and P. americanus ) into 
Eastern Massachusetts, 122 ; The Barn Owl in Canada West, 122 ; 
Capture of Richardson’s Owl (. Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni) 
near Providence, R. I., 122; Capture of the Great Gray Owl in 
Massachusetts, 123; Recent occurrence of the Flammulated Owl 
in Colorado, 123; Capture of the Golden Eagle at Albany, N. Y., 
123; Wintering of the Sora Rail at the North, 124; Nesting 
Habits of the Canada Goose ( Bernicla canadensis ), 124; Earns 
glaucescens in the Bay of Fundy, 125 ; Occurrence of Earns glad- 
cescens at Grand Menan, N. B., 125; The White-winged Gull in 
Maine, 125; The Roseate Tern on the Coast of Maine, 126; 
Winter Birds in New Brunswick, 126; Some Albinos in the 
Museum of the Philadelphia Academy, 126; A Letter from an 
Old-time Ornithologist, 127; Eggs of British Birds in Exchange 
for Eggs of American Birds, 128. 
