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Front MatterSource: The Auk, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1889)Published by: American Ornithologists' UnionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4067427 .
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PAGE THE BOomING OF THE BITTERN. By Bradford Torrey. I THE MAIN DIVISIoNS OF THE SWIFTS. By Frederic A. Lucas. 8 A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA. By
W. E. D. Scott.13
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BREEDTNG HABITS OF PujinXs auduboni IN .THE ISLAND OF GRENADA, WEST INDIES, WITH A NOTE ON Zenaida rubripes. By George N. Lawrence .9
BIRDS OF CARROLL COUNTY, INDIANA. By Barton W. Evermann .22 A LIST OF THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. C. J. MAYNARD IN THZE ISLANDS OF LITTLE
CAYMAN AND CAYMAN BRACK, WEST INDIES. By Charles B. Cory . . . 30 NOTES ON THE HABITS, NESTS, AND EGGS OF Dendragapus obscurusfaliginosus RIDGW.,
THE SOOTY GROUSE. By Capt. Charles E. Bendire. 32 ON THE SUMMER BIRDS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. By Walter Faxon 39 REMARKS UPON ABNORMAL COLORING OF PLUMAGE OBSERVED IN SEVERAL SPECIES OF
BIRDS. By Geo. N. Lawrence .46 NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA. By William C. Rives,
7r., Jt. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 50 A NSEWNAME FOR THE SPECIES OF Sporophila FROM TEXAS, GENERALLY KNOWN AS S.
morelleti. By George N. Lawrence .53 SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION . . . . . 55
RECENT LITERATURE.-Cooke's 'Report on Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley', 58; Nelson's Report upon Natural History Collections made in Alaska, 61; Jordan's New Manual of Verte- brates, 63; Sharpe's ' Birds in Nature', 63; Birds of Nova Scotia, 64; PublicationsReceived, 6S.
GENERAL NOTES.-The Present Status of Forster's Tern as a Bird of New England, 66; Notes on Brewster's and the Blue-footed Gannet, 67; Histrionicus histrionicus on Long Island, New York, 67; Chen crrulescens in Massachusetts, 68; Baird's Sandpiper in Central New York, 68; The Northern Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) in the Franconia Mountains, New Hampshire, 68; Occurrence of the Western Sandpiper (Ereunetes occidentalis) in Numbers on the Coast of Massachusetts, 69; Sandpipers at Sea-A Correction, 69; Remarkable Flight of Killdeer (,-Egialitis vocifera) near Portland, Maine, 69; Note on .-Egialitis meloda ctrcumeincta, 70o The Turkey HCuzzard in Massachusetts, 70; Krider's Hawk (Buteo borealis kriderii) on the Coast of Georgia, 70; First Description of the Egg of Glaucidium phalanoides, Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, 70; A New Generic Name for the Elf Owl, 7I; Sphyrapicus ruber Breed- ing in Coniferous Trees, 71; Occurrence of Traill's Flycatcher near Washington, D. C., 71; Early Appearance ot Empidonax minimus at Portland, Maine, 71; Second Occurrence of the Prairie Horned Lark in Easterli Massachusetts,7I ; Molothrus ater in Massachusetts in December, 72- The Cowbird as a Flv-destroyer, 72; Notes upon the Sudden Appearance in Numbers of the Evening Girosbeak at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, 72; Loggerhead Shrike at Bridgeport, Connecticut, 74; First Occurrence of the Philadelphia Vireo near Washington, D. C., 74; Unusual Nesting Site of I)endroica virens, 74; A Rare Bird in Chester Co., South Carolina, 74; A Peculiar Nest of Cinclus mexicanus, 75; Tro(odytes aedon, House Wren, Breeding in a Sand Bank, 76; Saxicola ananthe in Louisiana, 76; Summer Birds at Bridgewater and Moultonboro', New Hampshire, 76.
CORRESPONDENCE-The proper Name for the Genus Melanipittanf Schlegel, 79.
NOTES AND NEWS.-Obituary, Henry Stevenson, 79; Count August Friedrich Marschall, 8o; Nicolas Michailovitch Prjevalsky, 8o; Thure Kumlien, 8I; William T. Breese, 8m; Supple- ment to the A. 0. U. Check-List, 8I * Abridged Edition of the Check-List, Si; Birds that are to be Discussed at the Next Meeting oi the A. 0. U., 82; A Uniform Method for Measuring Birds, 82; Incorporation of the A. 0. U., 82; Nuttall OrIiithological Club, 83; Second Congress of the International Ornithological Committee,83; Metric System in Ornithology, 84; Recent Ornithological Explorations, 84.
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