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Front MatterSource: The Auk, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Oct., 1891)Published by: American Ornithologists' UnionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4068130 .
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JUNE BIRDS OF CAESAR'S HEAD, SOUTH CAROLINA. By Leverett M. Loomis. . 323
LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE BAHAMA ISLANDS BY THE NATURALISTS OF THE FISH
COMMISSION STEAMER 'ALBATROSS'. By Robert Ridgway. 333 ,FIRE-LIGHTING.' By George H. Mackay. 340 A REVISION OF THE SPECIES OF Molothrus ALLIED TO M. bonariensis (GM.). By Witmer
Stone .344 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEw BIRDS FROM THE BAHAMA ISLANDS, WITH REMARKS ON THE
SPECIES OF Speolyto WHICH OCCUR IN TFHE WEST INDIES. By Charles B. Cory. . 348 LIST OF THE BIRDS OBTAINED BY MR. C. S. WINCH ON THE ISLANDS OF GREAT BAHAMA
AND ABACO, BAHAMA ISLANDS, DURING JUNE, AND ON ELEUTHERA IN JULY, 189I.
By Char-les B. Cory. 350 LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE ISLAND OF INAGUA, BAHAMA ISLANDS, FROM
MAY I TO JULY IO, I89I. By Chiarles B. Cory . . .351
ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS MADE ON rHE ISLANDS OF ANGUILLA AND CAY SAL OR SALT
CAY, BAHAMA ISLANDS, BY MR.CYRUS S. WINCH, DURING MAY, 1891. By Charles
B. Cory .352
OBSE1RVATIONS (N THE BIRDS OF JAMAICA, WEST INDIES. II. A LTST OF TH BIRDS
RECORDED FROM THE ISLAND, WITH ANNOTATIONS. By W. E. D. Scot. t . 353
TERTIARY FOSSILS OF NORTHI AMERICAN BIRDS. By R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. . . 365
THE CAROLINA PAROQUET (COnuruns carolinensis). By Edwin M. Hasbr-onck. . , 369
RECENT LITERATURE.-Sharpe's Review of Recent Attempts to Classify Birds, 3?79; Hornaday's
Handbook of Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting, 381; Butler's Birds of Indiana, 383;
Colburn and Morris's 'Birds of the Connecticut Valtey in Massachusetts,' 3S4; Merriam's
List of Birds observed in Idaho, 385; Maynard's 'Contriloutions to Science', 385; Minor Or-
GENERAL NOTES.-The Yellowlegs (To/anus jlavipes) Breedinig ill Onitario County, N. Y-., 394; The Turkey Vulture (Cahoartes aura) ini Ontario Cotlsity, N. Y., 394; All Abriorlnal Specinlen
of Coccyzus maynardi, 394; Further notes on Otocoris alpestrisprallCola, 395; The English Sparrow (Parsser domnesticus) in Nassau, N. P., 395; Former Occurrence of Spiza americana
in Nortbern New Jersey, 395; An Abnormal Specimen of tlie Nonpareil (Passerind ciris), 395;
Tile Cedar Waxwinig and Amiierican Dipper in Costa Rica, 3Q5; Aniother Massachusctts Record
for tlie Mockingbird, 395; Geo/lkypis philadelphia Breedinrg in Western New York, 396;
Breeding of the Mourning Warbler in Ontario Collnty, N. Y., 396; Yellow alim Warbler
Notes on the Mniotiltida of Westerrn Pennsylvanial, 397; Note regardin- the Islanids of
Maraguana and Samnana, Bahamls, 399.
NOTES AND NEWS.- The Frontispiece, 4oo; Obituiary, John I. NortirolI, 400; August von Pelzeini,
400; Ninth Congress of the A. 0. U., 400; Second Intertnational Ornithological CoIlgress, 401;
A New Manual of North Anierican Birds, 401; Ornithological Exploration, 402; A Query
from the Treasurer of tihe A. 0. U.
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