Contents of Volume 
VIII. 
NUMBER III. . 
Page 
Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows . . 128 
Bird Notes from Western Ontario. By T. Mcllwraith . . 143 
Notes on some of the Winter Birds of Massachusetts. By 
Herbert K. Job . . . . . ... . . 147 
List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of Colorado Springs, 
Colorado, during March, April, and May, 1882. By J. 
A. Allen and William Brewster . . . . . . 15 1 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Sterns and Coues’s “New England Bird Life,” 161 ; Everett Smith’s 
Catalogue of Maine Birds, 164; Contributions to the Anatomy of 
Birds, 168; Ridgway on New Species and Sub-species of Birds, 
168 ; Reichenow and Shalow’s Compendium of newly discovered 
Genera and Species of Birds, 169; Reichenow’s Conspectus Psit- 
tacorum, 169; Stejneger on two new Races of Myiadestes obscu- 
rus , 170; Stejneger’s Synopsis of the West India Species of 
Myiadestes , 170; National Museum Desiderata of American Birds, 
170; Dubois on Geographical Variation in the Crossbills, 170; 
Birds of Pennsylvania, 171; Minor Ornithological Publications,; 
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GENERAL NOTES. 
Capture of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (. Polioptila ccerulea) in Connect- 
icut. 179; Parkman’s Wren in Illinois, 179; Breeding of the 
Short-billed Marsh Wren (Cistothorus stellaris ) in the Hudson 
Highlands, 179; Early Capture of the Orange-crowned Warbler, 
179; Occurrence of Siurus ncevius in Greenland, 179; Capture of 
the Yellow-breasted Chat at Albany, N. Y. , 180 ; Nest of Chrysomi- 
tris ftinus at Sing Sing, N. Y. , 180 ; Susceptibility of a Bird to color, 
181 ; The Lark Finch again in Massachusetts, 181 ; The Meadow 
Lark ( Sturnella magna ) in Vermont in Winter, 182 ; Geococcyx 
as a Vocalist, 182 ; A partial Albino Short-eared' Owl ( Asio accifii- 
trinus ), 183; Great Gray Owl in' Rhode Island, 183; Occurrence 
of a third Massachusetts specimen of the Labrador Gyrfalcon 
(Falco gyrfalco obsoletus ), 184; Instance of Semi-domestication 
of California Quail, 184; The Wood Ibis in Massachusetts, 185; 
The Scarlet Ibis in Florida, 185 ; Rails and Snipe in OhiD in 
Winter, 186; Breeding of the Mallard in New England, 186; The 
Glaucous Gull (^Larus glaucus') at Portland, Me., 186; The Com- 
mon Cormorant on the coast of South Carolina, 186; Occurrence 
of the Northern Phalarope and Audubon’s Warbler, and Nesting 
of the Mocking Bird in Western Kansas, 186; A California Bird- 
Wave, 188. 
