BULLETIN 
OF THE 
Nuttall Ornithological Club: 
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Vol. IV. - JULY, 1879. - No. 3. 
CONTENTS. 
Page 
On the Use of Trinomials in Zoological Nomen- 
clature. By Robert Ridgway 129 
Remarks upon Turdus pallasi and its Varieties. 
By H. W. Henshaw 134 
Notes on Birds observed during the Spring Mi- 
gration in Western Missouri. By IV. E. D. 
Scott 139 
The Rocky Mountain Golden-eye ( Bucephala 
islandica). By T. M. Breiver 148 
Notes on some Minnesota Birds. By T. S. Rob- 
erts 152 
Melospiza meloda and its Allies. By H. W. 
Henshaw 155 
A Partial List of the Birds of Fort Klamath, 
Oregon, collected by Lieutenant Willis Wit- 
tich, U.S.A., with Annotations and Additions 
by the Collector. By Edgar A. Mearns 161 
Recent Literature. — Belding and Ridgway’s Birds of 
Central California, 167 ; Cory on the Birds of the 
Magdalen Islands, 171 ; Roosevelt’s Notes on some of 
the Birds of Oyster Bay, Long Island, 171 ; Ingersoll’s 
Nests and Eggs of American Birds, 172 ; A Revised 
List of Birds of Central New York, 172 ; Hallock’s 
Sportsman’s Gazetteer, 175 ; Coues’s Bibliography of 
Ornithology, 175. 
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General Notes — Odd Behavior of a Robin and a Yellow 
Warbler, 178 ; The Blue-grav Gnatcatcher and San- 
derling in Minnesota, 182 ; Nest and Eggs of the Gray 
Titmouse (Lophophanes inornatus ), 182; Nesting of 
Certhia familiaris , 183 ; The Carolina Wren ( Thryo- 
thorus ludoviciatnts) breeding in New York, 183 ; The 
Great Carolina Wren breeding on Long Island, 184 ; 
Record of Additional Specimens of the White-throated 
Warbler (Helminthophaga levcobronchialis ), 184; Ad- 
ditional Capture of the Caerulean Warbler in New 
England, 185; Another Kirtland’s Warbler ( Dendrcera 
Jcirtlandi , 185 ; Correction, 186; Rare Birds in Michi- 
gan, 186; The Loggerhead Shrike breeding in Maine, 
186 ; Notes on some of the Winter and Early Spring 
Birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota, 187 ; Capture of a 
third Specimen of the Flammulated Owl ( Scops fiam- 
meola) in the United States, and first discovery of its 
Nest, 188 ; MacFarlane’s Gerfalcon ( Falco gyrfalco 
sacer) in Maine, 188 ; Nesting of Buteo zonocercus in 
New Mexico, 189 ; Capture of the Golden Eagle at 
Gravesend, L. I., 189; The Eggs of the Curlew Sand- 
piper ( Tringa subarquata), 190; Capture of the Eu- 
ropean Widgeon in North Carolina, 190 ; Bonaparte’s 
Gull in Kansas, 190; The Booby Gannet (Sula fiber) 
in Massachusetts, 191 ; A Word in Defence, 191. 
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