B8 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
ornithologists not connected with the Museum were published, as 
follows: On the Ruff in Indiana, by Mr. R. Deane; on gulls of the 
genus Larus, by Dr. J. Dwight, jr.; on variation in the hairy wood- 
peckers, by Mr. H. O. Jenkins; on petrels, by Mr. W. O. Emerson; 
on certain California birds, by Dr. L. B. Bishop, and on the Pacific 
night hawk, by Mr. J. Grinnell. 
Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, curator of reptiles and batrachians, com- 
pleted a large work on the herpetology of Japan, which has occupied 
his attention for several years, and a report on the reptiles collected 
in Patagonia by the late Prof. J. B. Hatcher; he has begun upon a 
revision of the North American salamanders, and researches relative 
to the reptile fauna of the Philippines, for which material is being 
assembled. He also described several new species. The lizards and 
snakes of Texas were studied by Mr. Vernon Bailey of the Biological 
Survey; the chameleons by Mr. Th. Barbour; the garter snakes by 
Mr. A. G. Ruthven; the sea turtles by Mr. R. E. Coker, and the 
tailless batrachians by Miss M. C. Dickerson. 
Twenty-four papers on fishes, by members of the staff and others, 
based wholly or in part on Museum collections, were issued or in course 
of preparation during the year. Seven of these were on Japanese 
fishes, including the sand lances, thread fishes, giant bass, and stur- 
geons, by Dr. David Starr Jordan, in collaboration with Mr. R. C. 
McGreggor, Mr. J. O. Snyder, and Mr. A. Seale. In conjunction 
with the two latter Doctor Jordan also contributed a paper on fishes 
from the Negros Islands, Philippines, a list of the fishes collected at 
Shanghai and Hongkong in 1882-83 by Mr. Pierre L. Jouy, and a 
list of fishes collected at Tahiti by Mr. H. P. Bowie. 
Dr. B. W. Evermann, curator of fishes, conjointly with Mr. Seale, 
Mr. W. H. Kendall, and Mr. H. W. Clark, described the fishes collected 
at the Philippines by Doctor Mearns and those from the same islands 
exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He also reported on 
collections of fishes obtained in Argentina by Mr. J. W. Titcomb, and 
in Santo Domingo by Mr. A. Buseck. Prof. C. H. Eigenmann, of Indiana 
University, and Mr. Barton A. Bean, assistant curator of fishes, com- 
pleted a paper on the specimens brought from the Amazon River a few 
years ago by Prof. J. B. Steere, and have begun upon a list and bibli- 
ography of all the species known to occur in the same region. Mr. 
Bean and Mr. McKnew spent some time in a study of the Florida 
fishes contained in the collection. 
Prof. C. H. Gilbert, of Stanford University, spent about two months 
at the Museum investigating the general collection and reexamining 
the type specimens of deep-sea fishes obtained in the Pacific Ocean by 
the Fisheries steamer Albatross. Notes by him and Mr. J.C. Thomp- 
son on the fishes of Puget Sound were published. Dr. T. N. Gill, 
associate in biology, contributed papers on the carp and cyprinoid 
