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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, lUU). 



Miller, Gerrit S., jr. Brief synopsis of 

 the waterrats of Europe. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 2:3, 

 Mar. 23, 1910, pp. 19-22. 

 Synopsis of European species of Arvi- 

 cola, with description of a new form. 

 Based on material in the British Mu- 

 seum and the U. S. National Museum. 



Description of a new species of 



hippopotamus. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 54, No. 



1927, Mar. 28, 1910, pp. 1-.3, 



pis. 1-4. 



Describes Hippopotamus constr ictus 



from Angola. The type is in the V . S. 



National Museum. 



The generic name of the house- 



rats. 



Ptoc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 



Apr. 19, 1910, pp. 57-60. 



Shows the generic distinctness of the 



liouse mouse from the rats, and raises the 



subgeneric name Epimys to generic value 



for the latter. 



Nelson, E. W 

 America. 



The rabbits of North 



North Amer. Fauna, No. 29, Aug. 

 31, 1909, pp. 1-314, pis. 1-1.3, 

 figs. 1-19. 



Nelson, E. W.— Continued. 



A complete revision of the group, based 

 upon the collections in the V. S. National 

 Museum; one new subspecies, Sylvilagus 

 aquaticus litloralis, from Louisiana, is de- 

 scribed. 



Osgood, W. H. Biological investiga- 

 tions in Alaska and Yukon Territory. 



Korth A mer. Fauna, No. 30, Oct. 

 7, 1909, pp. 1-96, pis. I-V, figs. 

 1,2. 

 Annotated list of mammals from the 

 region, with description of a new sub- 

 species in the Biological Survey collection. 



True, Frederick W. Description of a 

 skull and some vertebrae of the fossil 

 cetacean Diochotichus vanbenedeni 



from Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 



Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 28, 

 Art. 4, Mar. 22, 1910, pp. 19-32,- 

 pis. 1-5. 

 Describes and figures a nearly perfect 

 skull of the fossil porpoise originally 

 named Notocctus vanbenedeni by Moreno, 

 and shows that it is a small species belong- 

 ing to the family Squalodontidae, but 

 that it has single-rooted teeth. The 

 characters of the vertebree are also given. 

 The specimen belongs to the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



BIEDS. 



Amer. Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee ON Nomenclature. Fifteenth 

 supplement to the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union check list of North 

 American birds. 



Auk, 26, No. 3, July, 1909, pp. 



294-303. 



A list of the changes adopted since the 



publication of the fourteenth supplement 



of the check list, covering about sixty 



rulings of the committee. 



Bangs, Outram. New or rare l)irds 

 from western Colombia. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 

 May 4, 1910, pp. 71-76. 

 Notes on fourteen forms, of which the 

 following are described as new: Odonto- 

 phoTUS baliolus (p. 71), Picumnus canus 

 (p. 72), Xiphorhynchus rosenbergi (p. 72), 

 Rhopoctites alogus (p. 72), Rhynchocydus 

 sulphtirescens asemus (p. 73), Mionectes 

 olivaceus hederaceus (p. 73), Pheugopedius 

 spadii (p. 74), P. mystacalis saltuensis 

 (p. 74), Henicorhina leucosticta eucharis 

 (p. 74). 



Clark, Austin Hobart. The birds 

 collected and observed during the cruise 

 of the United States Fisheries steamer 

 "Albatross " in the North Pacific Ocean, 



Clark, Austin Hobart — Continued, 

 and in the Bering, Okhotsk, Japan, and 

 Eastern Seas, from April to December, 



1906. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 38, No. 

 1727, April 30, 1910, pp. 25-74. 

 An account of the birds noted or 

 obtained by the author during the cruise 

 of the Albatross in 1906. Extended notes 

 are given under many species, of which 

 179 are enumerated. 



Report on a collection of birds 



made by Pierre Louis Jouy in Korea. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 38, No. 

 1735, May 9, 1910, pp. 147-176. 

 Notes on 163 species, comprising the 

 collection fonned by the late P. L. Jouy. 



Cory, Charles B. The birds of the 



Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 



Field Mus. Nat. Hiit., Pub. 137, 



Ornith. Ser., I, No. 5, Oct. 25, 



1909, pp. 193-255, pi. 6. 



An account of the birds of the Leeward 



Islands, Caribbean Sea, with a tabular 



list of the species hitherto recorded from 



the region. Icterus icterus harterti (p. 201), 



Ccereba lowii (p. 217), Dendroica ruficapilla 



obscura (p. 217), Conurus xruginosus tortu- 



gensis (p. 220), Tiaris tortugensis (p. 221), 



