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CONTENTS. 



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Officers and committees for 1902 : v 



Proceedings yii-xii 



Members xiii-xviii 



The Generic Names of the North American Skunks, by Arthur 



H. Howell 1-9 



The Large Yellow Pond Lilies of the Northeastern United States, 



byGerrit S. Miller, Jr ... 11-13 



A New ppisthoglyph Snake from Formosa, by Leonhard Stej- 



neger 15-17 



New American Species of Chamaecrista, by Charles Louis 



Pollard 19-21 



Ribes aureum and Ribes lentum, by Frederick V. Coville 23-29 



Description of a New Swallow from the Western United States, 



by Edgar A. Mearns 31-32 



Descriptions of Three New Birds from Cuba and the Bahamas, 



by William Palmer and J. H. Riley 33-34 



General Notes 35-39 



Note on the name Rhopocichla, 35; The technical names of 

 two Dogbanes from the District of Columbia, 35; A fully 

 adult specimen of Ophibolus rhombomaculatus, 36; The gen 

 eric names Coccystes untenable, 37; Gerrhonotus cceruteus 

 versus Gerrhonotus burnettii, 37; Ptychozoon kuhli a new 

 name for P. homalocephalum, 37; On the proper application 

 of the name Cambarus carolinus Erichson, 38; Note on the 

 names of the genera of Peccaries, 38; The technical name 

 of the Virginia Deer, 39. 

 Twenty New Pocket Mice (Heteromys and Liomys] from Mexico, 



by C. Hart Merriam 41-50 



A New Pig from Sumatra, by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr 51-52 



Some Recent Changes in the Nomenclature of West Indian corals, 



by T. Wayland Vaughan 53-58 



A Further Note on the Generic Names of tue Mephitince, by J. A. 



Allen 59-66 



Five New Mammals from Mexico, by C. Hart Merriam 67-69 



A New Bobcat (Lynx uinta] from the Rocky Mountains, by C. 



Hart Merriam 71-72 



Three New Foxes of the Kit and Desert Fox Groups, by C. Hart 



Merriam. 73-74 



Two New Shrews of the Sorex tenettus Group from California, by 



C. Hart Merriam 75-76 



Two New Bears from the Alaska Peninsula, by C. Hart Merriam 77-79 



A New Rabbit from Southern Texas, by Gerrit S Miller, Jr 81-82 



Description of a New Phyllostome Bat from the Isthmus of 



Panama, by Marcus W. Lyon, Jr 83-84 



General Notes 85-90 



Ixoreus should replace Hesperocichla, 85; Two preoccupied 

 avian genera, 85; The proper name of the arctic horned 

 owl, 86; A new name for Buthotrephis divaricata D. W., 86; 

 Change of name of Ficusf hesperia from vicinity of Ashland, 

 Oregon, 86; Some names of American Cerridae, 87; The type 



