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BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
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Vol. IV. - JANUARY, 1879. - No. 1. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
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 Brooklyn City. By George Hughes 
Coues 31 
Notes on Some of the less hardy Winter Resi- 
dents in the Hudson River Valley. By Edgar 
A. Mearns 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 rvficeps). 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 Illustrations of the Nests and 
Eggs of the Birds of Ohio, 52 ; Adams's Notes on the 
Birds of Alaska, 5.; Wilson and Bonaparte’s Ameri- 
can Ornithologv, 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-cliinned Humming-Bird in Texas, 60 ; Capture 
of two Rare Birds at Riverdale, N. Y. , 60 ; The White- 
bellied Nuthatch concealing Food, 61 ; The Great Caro- 
lina AVren ( Thryothorus ludovicianus) in Connecticut, 
61 ; Occurrence of several Rare Birds near Sing Sing, 
N. Y.,61; Occurrence of Birds rare to the Vicinity of 
Columbus, 0. , 62 ; The Great White Egret in New 
Brunswick, 63; The Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama 
himantopus) on the New Jersey Coast, 63; Notes on 
New England Birds, 63; The Frigate Pelican in Nova 
Scotia, 64 ; Fulmarus glacialis on the Massachusetts 
Coast, 64. 
PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB. 
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