CONTENTS. 



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Officers and Council elected January, 1884 vn 



Standing Committees, 1884 vni 



List of Members, January 25, 1884 IX 



Additional List of Members, corrected to July I, 1884 xxv 



Constitution xxvn 



Proceedings, October 13, 1882, to May 31, 1884 - xxxi 



Addresses and communications I 



The Principles of Zoogeography, Annual Address of the President, Theo 

 dore Gill, January 19, 1883 I 



Certain phases in the geological history of the North American Continent, 



biologically considered, Annual Address of the President, Charles A. 



White, January 25, 1884 . 41 



Notes on North American Psyllidse, C. V. Riley (April 10, 1884*) 67 



Remarks on the bag-worm, Thyridopteryx ephernenzformis, C. V. Riley 



(April 10, 1884) 80 



List of plants added to the flora of Washington from April I, 1882, to 



April i, 1884, Lester F. Ward (April 10, 1884) 84 



Description of a new genus and species of pediculate fishes (Halieutelfa 



lappa), G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean 88 



Descriptions of some new North American birds, R. Ridgway (April 10, 



1884) 89 



Description of a new American kingfisher, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884) 95 



Note on Psaltriparus grindce Belding, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884) 96 



Note on the generic name, Calodromas, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884) __ 97 

 Diagnoses of new species of birds from Kamtschatka and the Commander 



Islands, Leonhard Stejneger (April 10, 1884) 97 



Diagnoses of three new species of fishes from the Gulf of Mexico, T. H. 



Bean and H. G. Dresel (April 10, 1884) 99 



A review of the American cross-bills (Loxia) of the L. curvirostra type, 



R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884) 101 



Note on the Anas hyperboreus Pall., and Anser albatus Cass., R. Ridg 

 way (April 28, 1884) 107 



Remarks on the type specimens of Muscicapa fulvifrons Giraud, and 



Mitrephortis pallescens Coues, R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884) IQ 8 



Note regarding the earliest name for Carpodacus luzmorrhous (Wagler), 



R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884) no 



On some Hydrocorallinas from Alaska and California, W. H. Dall (April 



28, 1884) in 



Some results by massage et contre-coup, W. S. Barnard 116 



* Author's extras of each of the special papers here enumerated were published at 

 the dates given in parentheses following the author's name. 



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