UNIVERSITY PRESS:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB.

HONORARY MEMBERS.

PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,

Washington, D. C.

DR. ELLIOTT COUES, U. S. A., Washington, D. C.

Daniel GirauD ELLIOT, New Brighton, L. I., N. Y.

GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, New York, N. Y.

ROBERT RIDGWAY, Washington, D. C.

FOREIGN MEMBERS.

PROF. J. V. BARBOZA DU BOCAGE, Royal Museum, Lisbon.

HENRY E. DRESSER, F. Z. S., London.

DR. OTTO FINSCH, Bremen.

DR. HENRY HILLYER GIGLIOLI, Royal Superior Institute, Florence. DR. GUSTAV HARTLAUB, Bremen.

ALLAN O. HUME, C. B., Calcutta.

PROF. ALFRED NEWTON, M. A., F. R. S., V. P. Z. S., University of Cambridge, England.

DR. AUGUST VON PELZELN, Custos am k. k. zoologischen Cabinete in Wien.

PROF. J. REINHARDT, Kongelige Naturhistoriske Museum i Kjöbenhavn.

PROF. TOMMASO SALVADORI, Royal Museum, Turin.

OSBERT SALVIN, M. A., F. R. S., London.

DR. PHILIP LUTELEY, M. A., F. R. S., etc., London.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

NUMBER I.

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NOTES ON THE HABITS AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE PHILADELPHIA VIREO

(Vireo philadelphicus). By William Brewster

REMARKS ON THE NIDIFICATION OF Loxia curvirostra americana, WITH A

DESCRIPTION OF ITS NEST AND EGGS. By Eugene P. Bicknell

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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF MINNESOTA, By Thomas S.

Roberts and Franklin Benner

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ON THE NESTING IN MISSOURI OF Empidonax acadicus AND Empidonax trailli.

By Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A.

ADDITIONAL CASES OF ALBINISM AND MELANISM IN NORTH AMERICAN

BIRDS. By Ruthven Deane

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ON SIX SPECIES OF BIRDS NEW TO THE FAUNA OF ILLINOIS, WITH NOTES

ON OTHER RARE ILLINOIS BIRDS. By Robert Ridgway

AN AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF ST. MICHAEL'S, ALASKA. By E.

W. Nelson

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ON CURRENT OBJECTIONABLE NAMES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. By

Robert Ridgway

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RECENT LITERATURE.

Ingersoll's Nests and Eggs of Amer can Birds, 38; The Misses Jones and Shulze's

Nests and Eggs of Ohio Birds, 39; Coues's Biography of American Orni-

thology, 40; Ridgway on the Species of the Genera Scops and Tyrannus,

41; McChesney's Notes on the Birds of Fort Sisseton, Dakota Territory, 42;

Minor Ornithological Papers, 43.

GENERAL NOTES.

A Black Robin (Turdus migratorius), 46; Interesting Birds found on Long

Island, N.Y., 46; The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Massachusetts, 47; Nest

and Eggs of Parus montanus, 47; Nesting of the Blue Yellow-backed War-

bler in Southern Georgia, 48; The Tennessee Warbler destructive to Grapes,

48; Blue-winged Yellow Warbler in New England, 48; Description of the

Female Dendroca kirtlandi, 49; Note on Oporornis agilis, 50; The Redstart

in Washington Territory, 50; Additional Record of the Loggerhead Shrike

in Maine, 50; The Nesting of the Common Crossbill, 50; Coturniculus

lecontei, 51; Ammodromus caudacutus a Summer Resident in Southern

Maine, 52; Note on Peucæa illinoensis, 52; Zonotrichia albicollis nesting

in Eastern Massachusetts, 52; Chondestes grammica and Vireo philadel

phicus in Massachusetts, 53; Late Breeding of the Blue Grosbeak, 53; The

Western Meadow Lark in Northeastern Iowa, 53; Eastward Range of the

Western Meadow Lark, 53; Chordiles popetue minor in Florida, 54; Habits

of Vaux's Swift, 55; Eggs of Picus albolarvatus, 56; The Black-backed

Tree-toad Woodpecker in Massachusetts, 56; Golden-winged Woodpeckers

nesting in a Natural Cavity in a Decayed Tree, 56; Nesting of the