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BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: j 
% (Ouartcrln Journal of ©rntthologn. 
Vol. VII. — J UU£iH7, 1882. — No. 1. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
On an apparently New Heron from 
Florida. By Robert Ridway i 
List of Birds observed at Houston, Har- 
ris Co., Texas, and Vicinity and in the 
Counties Montgomery, Galveston, and 
Fort Bend, By H. Nehrling 6 
On the Sesamoid at the front of the 
Carpus in Birds. By J. Amory Jeffries 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 Plu- 
mage of the Acadian Owl (Nyctale aca- 
dica ), with some additional Records of 
its Breeding in Massachusetts. By 
William Brewster 23 
Description of a New Race of Peuceea 
ruficeps from Texas. By Nathan Clifford 
Brown . 26 
On Kennicott’s Owl and some of its Al- 
lies, with a Description of a proposed 
New Race. By William Brewster .... 27 
A Reconnoissancf. in Southwestern Tex- 
as. By Nathan Clifford Brown ...... 33 
Recent Literature. — Memorial Volume of 
Garrod’s Scientific Papers, 43 ; Shufeldt’s Osteolo- 
gy of the North American Tetraonidze, 44; Illus- 
trations 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; Lang- 
don’s Field Notes on Louisiana Birds, 48; Krider’s 
Field Notes, 49; Langdon’s Zoological Miscel- 
lany, 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 ( Thryotkorus bewicki leucogaster) , 52; An 
Erroneous Record of the Orange-crowned Warbler 
( Helminthophaga celata ) in New Hampshire, 53; 
On the Generic Name Helminthophaga, 53; Den - 
drceca palmarum again in Massachusetts, 54; 
Ampelis cedrorum as a Sap-sucker, 54; Capture 
of Plectrophanes lapponicus in Chester, S. C., 34; 
Occurrence of Coturniculus lecontei in Chester 
County, South Carolina, 54; The Sharp-tailed 
Finch in Kansas, 55; Note on Mitrephanes , a 
New Generic Name, 53; Nesting of Empidonax 
minimus and Helminthenis vermivorus in Penn- 
sylvania and New Jersey, 55 ; Cuckoos laying in 
the Nests of other Birds, 56; Melanerpes erythro - 
cephalus about Boston, 57 ; The Barn Owl in 
Maine : a Retraction, 58; The Snowy Owl at Fort 
Walla Walla, W. T., 58; Capture of the Golden 
Eagle in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 58 ; The 
Swallow -tailed Kite in Dakota, 59 ; A Remarkable 
Specimen of the Pinnated Grouse ( Cupidonia cu- 
pido), 59; Wilson’s Plover ( JEgialites wilsonms) 
in New England, 59; Capture of Baird’s Sand- 
piper on Long Island, N.Y., 60; An Addition to 
the Maine Fauna, 60 ; Capture of Earns leucopterus 
near Boston, 60; The Great Black -backed Gull 
(Earns marinus ) from a new Locality, 60; The 
Snake-bird in Kansas, 61 ; Capture of the Sea 
Dove 150 Miles from the Sea, 61 ; Additions to the 
Catalogue of North American Birds, 61 ; Notes on 
Some Birds of the Belt Mountains, Montana Ter- 
ritory, 61 ; Remarks on Some Western Vermont 
Birds, 63. 
Erratum, 64. 
Camlmiigc, tllass. : 
PUBLISHED BY TBE OLU^. 
W. H. Wheeler , Printer, 17 Brighton St., Cambridge , Mass. 
