CONTENTS 



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Officers and Council elected January, 1884 vil 



Standing Committees, 1884 viil 



L.ist of Members, January 25, 1884 '^ 



Additional List of Members, corrected to July i, 1884 xx\' 



Constitution xxvii 



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



Addresses and communications I 



Tlie 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 Psyllida;, C. V. Riley (April 10, 1884") 67 



Remarks on the bag-worm, 7 Iiyridopteryx ep/ic/ncra-Jorniis, 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 i^llalieutclla 



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 Psaltripariis grindcc Belding, R. Ridgway (April 10, 18S4) 96 



Note on the generic name, Calodrofiias, 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. IL 



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) loi 



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

 way (April 28, 1884) 107 



Remarks on the type specimens of Afitscicapa fidvifrons Giraud, and 



Mitrephorus pallesccns Coues, R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884) loS 



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



R. Ridgway (April 28, 1SS4) : no 



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



28, 18S4) III 



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



■•■Author's extras of eaeli of the special papers liere enumerated were publislied at 

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



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