Contents
The 'booming' of the Bittern
Bradford Torrey
The Main Divisions of the Swifts
Frederic A. Lucas
An Account of the Breeding Habits of Puffinus Auduboni in the Island of Grenada, West Indies, with a Note on Zenaida Rubripes
George N. Lawrence
Birds of Carroll County, Indiana
Barton W. Evermann
A List of the Birds Collected by Mr C J Maynard in the Islands of Little Cayman and Cayman Brack, West Indies
Charles B. Cory
Notes on the Habits, Nests, and Eggs of Dendragapus Obscurus Fuliginosus, the Sooty Grouse
Capt. Charles E. Bendire
Notes on the Birds of White Top Mountain, Virginia
William C. Rives Jr.
A New Name for the Species of Sporophila from Texas, Generally Known as S Morelleti
George N. Lawrence
Notes and News
The Auk
Recent Literature
Jordan's New Manual of Vertebrates
J. A. Allen
Sharpe's Birds in Nature
J. A. Allen
Birds of Nova Scotia
E. E. T.
Publications Received
The Auk
General Notes
The Present Status of Forster's Tern as a Bird of New England
William Brewster
Notes on Brewster's and the Blue-footed Gannet
R. W. Shufeldt
Histrionicus Histrionicus on Long Island, New York
Geo. B. Badger
Chen C[ae]rulescens in Massachusetts
William A. Jeffries
Baird's Sandpiper in Central New York
Morris M. Green
Occurrence of the Western Sandpiper (ereunetes Occidentalis) in Numbers on the Coast of Massachusetts
William Brewster
Sandpipers at Sea--a Correction
William A. Jeffries
Remarkable Flight of Killdeer ([ae]gialitis Vocifera) near Portland, Maine
Nathan Clifford Brown
Note on [ae]gialitis Meloda Circumcincta
Nathan Clifford Brown
The Turkey Buzzard in Massachusetts
Edward C. Mason
Krider's Hawk (buteo Borealis Kriderii) on the Coast of Georgia
William Brewster
[a New Generic Name for the Elf Owl]
Elliott Coues
Sphyrapicus Ruber Breeding in Coniferous Trees
C. E. Bendire
Occurrence of Traill's Flycatcher near Washington, D C
William Palmer
The Cowbird (molothrus Ater) as a Fly-destroyer
Henry W. Elliott
Molothrus Ater in Massachusetts in December
Walter Faxon
Notes upon the Sudden Appearance in Numbers of the Evening Grosbeak at Fort Wingate, New Mexico
R. W. Shufeldt
Unusual Nesting Site of Dendroica Virens
John C. Brown
Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Connecticut
C. K. Averill Jr.
A Rare Bird in Chester Co, South Carolina
Leverett M. Loomis
A Peculiar Nest of Cinclus Mexicanus
Chas. E. Bendire
Saxicola [oe]nanthe in Louisiana
Gustave Kohn
Troglodytes a
Geo. B. Sennett
Summer Birds at Bridgewater and Moultonboro', New Hampshire
Francis H. Allen
Correspondence
Cover
Front Matter
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