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Contents of Volume VIII, 
NUMBER IV. 
Page. 
List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of Colorado Springs, 
Colorado, during March, April, and May, 1882. By J. A. 
Allen and William Brewster . . . . . . .189 
Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter B. Barrows , . . 198 
On a Bird new to Northern North America. By C. Hart 
Merriam , M. D. ......... 213 
On an Apparently New Gull from Eastern North America. 
By William Brewster . . . . . . . . .214 
Breeding of the HARLEquiN Duck ( Histrionicus minutus ). By 
C. Hart Merriam , M. D. ........ 220 
The American Ornithologist’s Union ...... 221 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Goss’s Birds of Kansas, 227 ; Beckham’s Birds of Nelson County, Ken- 
tucky, 227 ; Nutting and Ridgway on Costa Rican Birds, 228; 
Migration of Birds, 228; Bean’s Notes on Birds collected in 
Alaska and Siberia, 231 ; Old World Birds in the National Mu- 
seum, 231 ; Stejneger on the Cygninae, 231 ; Turner on Lagopus 
mutus and its Varieties, 232 ; Reichenow’s “Die Vogel der zoolo- 
gischen Garten,” 232; Reichenow’s “Die Entenvogel der zoolo- 
gischen Garten, 232; Linden on Domestication of Wild Ducks, 
233; Minor Ornithological Publications, 233. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The Willow Thrush and Holboll’s Linnet in Illinois, 239; Nest 
and Eggs of Myiadestes townsendi , 239; The Mocking Bird in 
Western Kansas and the Northern Phalarope in Southern Wyo- 
ming, 240; Nest and Eggs of Parus montanus, 240; The Gray- 
crowned Finch in Confinement, 240; Description of the Nest 
and Young of the Pygmy Owl ( Glaucidium gnpma ), 242; The 
Bald Eagle fishing, 242 ; A Flock of White Herons ( Herodias 
egretta) in Eastern Massachusetts, 242; Herodias egretta at 
Amherst, 243; Wilson’s Snipe ( Gallinago wilsoni ) nesting in 
Massachusetts, 243 ; Baird’s Sandpiper at Scarborough, Maine, 
243 ; Cory’s Shearwater (Puffinus borealis') off the Coast of 
Massachusetts, 244; Addendum to List of Birds ascertained 
to occur within ten miles from Pont de Monts, Province of 
Quebec, Canada ; based chiefly upon the Notes of Napoleon 
A. Comeau, 244; The Movements of Certain Winter Birds, 
245; The Ridgway Ornithological Club of Chicago, 246. 
Index 
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