BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 
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Vol. VIII. — JTTLT, 1883. — No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
Birds of the Lower Uruguay. By Walter 
B. Barrows 12S 
Bird Notes from Western Ontario. By T. 
Mcllwraith 143 
Notes on some of the Winter Birds of 
Massachusetts. By Herbert K. Job ... 1 47 
List of Birds observed in the Vicinity of 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 
March, April, and May, 1882. By J. A. 
Allen and William Brewster . 151 
Recent Literature. — Stearns and Coues’s “New 
England Bird Life,” 161 ; Everett Smith’s Cata- 
logue of Maine Birds, 164; Contributions to the 
Anatomy of Birds, 1*68; Ridgwayon 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 
Psitthcorum , 169; Stejneger on two new Races of 
Myiadestes obscurus , 170; Stejneger’s Synopsis of 
the West India Species of Myiadestes , 170; Na- 
tional Museum Desiderata of American Birds, 
170; Dubois ’ on Geographical Variation in the 
Crossbills, 170; Birds of Pennsylvania, 171 ; 
Minor Ornithological Publications, 171. 
General Notes. — Capture of Blue-gray Gnat- 
catcher {Polioptila ccerulea) in Connecticut, 179 ; 
Parkman’s Wren in Illinois, 179; Breeding of the 
Short-billed Marsh Wren {Cistothorns stellar is) 
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 Ckrysomitris pinus 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^ 
1S2 ; Geococcyx as a Vocalist, 182; A partial Albino 
Short-eared Owl (Asio accipitrinus) , 183; Great 
Gray Owl in Rhode Island, 183; Occurrence of a 
third Massachussetts specimen of the Labrador 
Gyrfalcon {Falco gyrfalco obsoletus ), 184; In- 
stance of Semidomestication of California Quail, 
184;. The Wood Ibis in Massachusetts, 185; The 
Scarlet Ibis in Florida, 185; Rails and Snipe in 
Ohio in Winter, 186; Breeding of the Mallard in 
New England, 186; The Glaucous Gull ( Larus 
glaucus ) at Portland, Me., 186; The Common 
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. 
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