vi The Biological Society of Washington. 



A New Subspecies of Pigmy Owl, l)y E. AV. Nelson 103-104 



A New Humming Bird from the Sierra Nevada de Santa ^larta, 



Colombia, liy Outram Bangs 10o-10(i 



A New Tinamou from Lake Titicaca, l)y Outram Bangs . . . 107-IOS 



Jiera lonfjicomis Lucas Referred to the (ienus Stemiriiini, liy 



Harriet Richardson IO!i-lin 



On the Scales of Some IMalacopterygian Fishes, by T. D. A. 

 Cockerell 111-111 



Description of a New Solitary Spadefoot (Scaphiopus hnrlcrii) 

 from Texas, with other Herpetological Notes, Ity John K. 

 Strecker, Jr llo-lL'2 



C^neral Notes 123-lL'-l 



Notes on Some Names of Lions, l)y N. Hollister, ]2.>; The use 

 of Epimys in a Generic Sense, by R. Lydekker, 124; Incuba- 

 tion Period of Box-Turtle Eggs, by Wells W. Cooke, 124. 



A New Muskrat from tlie (ireat Plains, by N. Hollister .... 125-12(3 



Ursus sheldoni, a New Bear from ^Montague Poland, l>y C. Hart 

 Merriam 127-130 



On a Collection of Fishes from the Olymjiic Peninsula, together 

 with Notes on ()ther West Coast Species, by Barton Warren 

 Evermann and Homer Barker Latimer i:')l-i40 



The Scales of the African Cyprinid Fishes, with a Discussion of 



Related Asiatic and European Species, Vjy T. D. A. Cockerell 141-l.-)2 



Two New Woodpeckers from Central America, by W. E. Clyde 

 Todd lo:',-lo(i 



On a Collection of Fishes from the Lower Potomac, the Entrance 

 of Chesapeake Bay, and from Streams Flowing into these 

 AVaters, by Barton Warren Evermann and Samuel Frederick 

 Hildebrand ... 1.57- l(i4 



The Amphibian Generic Name Engystoma Untenaljle, by Leon- 

 hard Stejneger Kio-Ki-S 



A New Colubrine Snake from Java, by Thomas Barljuur . . . l(j'J-170 



Description of a New Genus and Species of Bivalve from the 

 Coronado Islands, Lower California, by AVilliam H. Dall . . 171 172 



Two New AVoodpeckers from the Isle of Pines, A\'est Indies, by 



Outram Bangs I7:')-.171 



PLATES 

 1. Facing p. ItO. Pomatops valvifera ^•Arhmw . Type. 

 II. " IK). Engystoma areolata Strecker, Euineccs 2)achyiinii< 



Cope, and Scaphiopus hurterii Strecker. 

 III. " 152. Scales of Cyprinidte. 



TEXT FIGURES. 

 Page 88. Etheostoma hildebrandti p]vermaiin and Clarke. Type. 

 91. Scale of Neomxnis griseus. 



02. Scales of Anisotremus virginicus and Citharidium ansorgii. 

 \)1. Alecto purpurea J. Miiller. Type. 



