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Contents of Volume III. 
Crow ( Corvus ossifragus) on Long Island, 47. — Correction, 47. — Mela- 
nism of Turdus migratorius, 47. — The Seaside Finch ( Ammodromus viari- 
tivius ) in Eastern Massachusetts, 48. — The Lark Bunting ( Calamospiza 
bicolor) in Massachusetts, 48. 
NUMBER II. 
Changes in our North American Fauna. By T. M. Brewer ... 49 
Remarks on some of the Birds of Lewis County, Northern New 
York. By C. Hart Merriam , with Notes by A. J. Dayan .... 52 
Descriptions of the First Plumage in Various Species of North 
American Birds. By William Brewster 56 
Notes on some of the Birds of Calaveras County, California, and 
adjoining Localities. By Robert Ridgway 64 
Notes on the Breeding Habits of Hutton’s Vireo ( Vireo huitoni) and 
the Gray Titmouse ( Lophophanes inornatus), with a Description of 
their Nests and Eggs. By William A. Cooper 68 
A Description of unusually developed Individuals of three Species, 
and Remarks on Uncommon Plumages in several others, taken 
near West Point, N. Y. By Edgar A. Mearns 69 
Notes on Junco caniceps and the closely allied Forms. By T. M. 
Brewer 72 
Effects of the Warm Winter on the Migration of Birds. By John 
Murdoch 75 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Sharpe’s “Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum,” 77. — Rowley’s 
“ The Pied Duck,” 79. — Street’s Notes on the Birds of Lower California 
and the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands, 80. — Bendire’s Notes on the Birds 
of Southeastern Oregon, 81. — Ridgway’s Report on the Ornithology of the 
Fortieth Parallel, 81. — Recent Lists of the Birds of Central New York, 83. 
— Barrows’s “Catalogue of the Alcidas,” 86. — Feilden’s “List of Birds 
observed in Smith Sound,” 86. — On the Moult of the Bill and Palpebral 
Ornaments in Fratercula arctica , 87. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Habits of the Kingfisher ( Ceryle alcyon ), 92. — The Painted Lark Bunting ( Plec - 
trophanes pictus) in Texas, 92. — Notes on a few Birds observed in New 
Mexico and Arizona, 92. — Capture of JEgialitis meloda var. circumcincta , 
Ridgway, on Long Island, 94. — Nest and Eggs of Selasphorus platycercus , 
95. — Nesting of Vireo olivaceus, 95. — Californian Prairie Chickens, 96. — 
Report of the Second Capture of the Orange-crowned Warbler ( Helmintho - 
phaga celata) in New Hampshire, 96. — Robin’s Egg«, spotted, 97. — Some 
New Traits for the Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes er y throe ephahis ), 
97. _ Spurious Primaries in the Red-eyed Vireo, 97. — The European Wid- 
geon ( Mareca penelope) in the United States, 98. — The Sharp-tailed Finch 
'Ammodromus caudacutus ) in Maine, 98. — The White-throated Warbler 
