CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 
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NUMBER I. 
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Remarks on Some of the Birds of Lewis County, Northern New 
York. By C. Hart Merriam . . 1 
A List of Birds observed at Coosada, Central Alabama. By Nathan 
Clifford Brown . . .7 
The Terns of the New England Coast. By William Brewster . - 13 
On the Coloration of Eggs. By S. D. Osborne 23 
Nest and Eggs of the Cerulean Warbler. By J. A. Allen ... 25 
Additional Cases of Albinism and Melanism in North American 
Birds. By Ruthven Deane .27 
List of Birds observed in the Naval Hospital Grounds, in Brook- 
lyn City. By George Hughes Coues 31 
Notes on Some of the less hardy Winter Residents of the Hudson 
River Valley. By Edgar A. M earns ....... 33 
Breeding of the Winter Wren at Houlton, Me. By Ruthven Deane . 37 
Descriptions of the First Plumage in Various Species of North 
American Birds. By William Brewster ...... 39 
Notes on the Habits and Distribution of the Rufous-crowned 
Sparrow ( Peuccea ruficeps). By William Brewster ..... 47 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Lawrence and Ober on the Birds of Dominica and St. Vincent, 48; Coues’s 
Field-Notes on Birds observed along the Forty-ninth Parallel, 49; Merrill’s 
Notes on the Ornithology of Southern Texas, 50; Jones and Shulze’s Illus- 
trations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 52; Adams’s Notes on 
the Birds of Alaska, 52; Wilson and Bonaparte’s American Ornithology, 
53; Coues’s Birds of the Colorado Valley, 54. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
Kirtland’s Warbler again in Ohio, 58. — Vireo atricapillus in Texas, 58. — Some 
Light on the History of a Rare Bird, 59. — Occurrence of the Western 
Variety of the Yellow Red-poll Warbler in Massachusetts, 60. — The Golden- 
cheeked Warbler and Black-chinned Humming-Bird in Texas, 60. — - Cap- 
ture of two Rare Birds at Riverdale, N. Y., 60. — The White-bellied Nut- 
hatch concealing Food, 61. — The Great Carolina Wren ( Thryothorus 
ludovicianus) in Connecticut, 61. — Occurrence of several Rare Birds near 
Sing Sing, N. Y., 61. — Occurrence of Birds rare to the Vicinity of Colum- 
