BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTT1LL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB: 
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Vol. VIII. — OCTOBER, 1883. — No. 4. 
CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
List of Birds Observed in the Vicinity 
of Colorado Springs, Colorado, during 
March, April, and May, 1882. By J. A. 
Allen and William Brevjster 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 East- 
ern North America. By William Brew- 
ster 214 
Breeding of the Harlequin Ducic ( His - 
trionicus 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 Museum, 
231 ; Stejneger on the Cygnince, 231 ; Turner on 
Lagopus mutus and its Varieties, 232; Reiche- 
now “Die Vogel der zoologischen Garten,” 232; 
Reichenow’s “Die Entenvogel der zoologischen 
Garten, 232; Linden on Domestication of Wild 
Ducks, 233; Minor Ornithological Publications, 
233 - 
General Notes. — The Willow Thrush and Hol- 
boll’s Linnet in Illinois, 239; Nest and Eggs 
of Myiadestes townsendi, 239; The Mockingbird 
in Western Kansas and the Northern Phalarope 
in Southern W'yoming, 240; The Gray-crowned 
Finch in Confinement, 240; Description of the 
Nest and Young of the Pygmy Owl ( Glaucidium 
gnoma ), 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 wil- 
soni) 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 Chi- 
cago, 246. 
Index ........ 
247 
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PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB. 
W. H. Wheeler , Printer , 41b Harvard St., Cambridge , Mass. 
