126 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 



Riley, J. H. — Continued. 



AccipUer atriatus Vieillot , is shown to be 

 the correct name of the species now known 

 as A . fringilloidcs Vigors. 



Swales, B. H. Bubo virginiauus occi- 

 dentalis iu Michigan. 



Auk, 27, No. -1, Apr., 1910, p. 20S. 

 Records a specimen of this subspecies 

 from northern Michigan. 



Carolina parakeet (Oouurus caro- 



linensis). 



Auk, 27, No. 2, Apr., 1910, p. 209. 

 The supposed Michigan record of this 

 species, based on a specimen in the Na- 

 tional Museum, is found to be erroneous. 



SwARTH, Harry S. Two new owls from 

 Arizona, with description of the juvenal 



SwARTH, Harry S. — Continued. 



plumage of Strix occidentalip occi- 



dentalis (Xantus). 



Univ. Cal. Puh. Zool., 7, No. 1, 

 May 2(i, 1910, pp. 1-8. 

 Olus asio gilmani (p. 1), and Strix occi- 

 denlalis huachucx (p. ,3) are described as 

 new. 



Thayer, John E., and Outram Bangs. 



Descriptions of new birds from Central 



China.' 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,5'2,iio.S, 

 May, 1909, pp. 1.39-141. 

 Descriptions of the following new forms 

 are given: Cnllocalia fusciphaga capnilis 

 (p. 139), Cnllocalia inopina (p. 1.39), 

 Turdus cardis lateus (p. 140), Parus major 

 artaivs (p. 140), Nucifraga hemispila 

 macclla (p. 140), Cyornis tickcllix glauci- 

 coraans (p. 141), Niltava hjchnin (p. 141), 

 and Cyanoptila cumatilis (p. 141). 



REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS. 



Gill, Theodore. First use of Amphibia 

 in its modern sense. 



Science (u. s.), 31, June 17, 1910, 

 pp. 958, 959. 

 The Use of Amphibia for a class distinct 

 from Reptilia has not been correctly 

 traced back earlier than 1822. It is here 

 shown that it was so used in 1806 by 

 Latreille in his "Genera Crustaceorum et 

 Insectorum" (i, p. 2). 



batra- 



Stejneger, Leonhard. The 

 chians and reptiles of Formosa. 



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

 1731, May 3, 1910, pp. 91-114. 

 A critical summary of the species of 

 batrachians and reptiles occurring in the 

 islaud of Formosa. The total number 

 is 86 species, being an increase of 2') since 

 the jiublication of the author's "Herpe- 

 tology of Japan" in 1907. 



FISHES. 



Bean, Barton A., and Alfred ('. Weed. 

 Notes on certain features of the life 



history 

 sculpin. 



)f the Alaskan fresh-water 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 52, 

 Quar. issue, Pt. 4, No. 1876, 

 Aug. 19, 1909, pp. 457-400. 

 The paper gives the results of an exam- 

 ination of the stomach contents of four- 

 teen specimens taken at random from 

 many thousands caught in traps at the 

 salmon hatchery at l/oring, Alaska. 

 These fish had eaten 39 young salmon 

 and 40 eggs within a few hours of the time 

 they were killed. Parasitic worms were 

 very numerous, a total of .322 being found 

 in the fourteen specimens. 



Cockerell, T. D. a. The scales of the 

 Mormyrid fishes, with remarks oji Al- 

 bula and Elops. 



Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 56, Pt. 

 3, No. 1931, May 7, 1910, pp. 1-4, 

 figs. 1-3. 

 An attempt is made to decide the rela- 

 tionships of the families Albulidx, Mor- 

 myridx, Elopidx, and Hiodontidx on 

 the basis of the structure of the scales. 



EvERMANN, Barton Warren, and Wil- 

 liam Converse Kendall. A com- 

 parison of the chub-mackerels of the 

 Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 



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



1748, June IS, 1910, pp. 327, 328. 



The Atlantic form (Scomber colias) is 



declared to be specifically distinct from 



the Pacific form {Scomber japonicus). 



and Lewis Radclifpe. Notes on 



a Cyprinodont (Orestias agassizii) from 

 central Peru. 



Proc. Biol. Sor. Washington, 22, 

 .July 2S, 1909, pp. 165-170. 

 This paper is based on about one hun- 

 dred specimens excellently preserved to 

 show the color pattern. It is concluded 

 that certain proposed specific difFeren- 

 tiations based on the color pattern are 

 not tenable. 



Gill, Theodore. 

 kinds and ways. 



Angler fishes: their 



Rep. Smithsonian Tnst., 1908 

 (1909), No. 1907, pp. 565-615. 

 figs. 1-49. 

 .\fter an introdur'tion on "Generali- 

 ties," the subject matter is considered 



1 Omitted from the report for 1909. 



