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Front MatterSource: The Auk, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct., 1889)Published by: American Ornithologists' UnionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4066869 .
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THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE WILD PIGEON (Ectopistes migratorius) AS A BIRD OF THE
UNITED STATES, WITH SOME NOTES ON ITS HABITS. By William Brewster. . . 285
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN GREENLAND, FROM THE MSS. OF A. HAGERUP. Edited by Montague Chamberlain .291
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEST AND EGGS OF Megasco.ps asio maxwellia, THE ROCKY MOUN-
TAIN SCREECH OWL. By Capt. Charles E. Bendire .298 NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE VICINITY OF ENGLEWOOD, NEW JE:RSEY. By
Frank M. Chapman .302 NOTES ON THE BLUE-WINGED WARBLER AND ITS ALLIES (Helminthophila pinus, H.
leucobronchialis, H. lawrencei AND H. chrysoptera) IN CONNECTICUT. By Edwin fH. Eames... 305
LIST OF THE BIRDS OF FULTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. By L. Otley Pindar . . . . 310
A SECOND SPECIMEN OF CORY'S BITTERN (Botauras neoxenus). By W. E. D. Scott 317
A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA. By W. E. D. Scott. 318
RE:CENT LITERATURE;.-Barrow's Report on the English Sparrow in North America, 326; Davie's 'Nests and Eggs of North American Birds,' 328; 'Birds through an Opera Glass,' 330; Stone's 'Catalogue of the Muscicapidae in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences,' 330; Bergtold's List of the Birds of Buffalo alid Vicinity, 331; Keyes and Williams's Preliminary Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa, 332; Taylor's Catalogue of Nebraska Birds, 332; Shufeldt's Recent Contributions to the Osteology of North American Birds, 333; Gould's Supplement to the Trochilidae, 334; Publications Received, 334.
GENERAL NOTES. -A 'New Duck for Massachusetts, Nomonyx dominicus, 336; Phalaropus lobatus and Phalaropus tricolor, 336; Nesting Habits of the Parrakeet (Conurus carolinensis) 336; Melanerpes carolinus Eating Oranges, 337; The Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) in Con. necticut, 338; Mortality among Eave Swallows, 338; The Yellow.throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica) near Washington, D. C., 339; Troglodytes aldon, House Wren, Building in a Hor- nets' Nest, 339; Birds near Springfield, Massachusetts, 340; Notes from Minnesota, 340; Notes from Wyoming, 341.
NOTES AND NEws. - Obituary- Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer, 341; The Seventh Congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, 341; Recent Explorations, 342; A New Publication,
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