78 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Ill type. Dr. Charles W. Richmond's paper on the birds collected by 

 Doctor Abbott and Mr. C. B. Kloss in the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands was published by the Museum during the year. Doctor 

 Uichmond sj^ent considerable time in identifying the Abbott collection 

 of l)irds for the west coast of Sumatra and in working up a collection 

 from the South l*aciiic. He continued work on the <:'ard catalogue of 

 the genera and species of birds. Two papers on South American birds 

 in the Museum collection, by Mr. H. C. Oberholser, appeared during 

 the 3'ear, and also one by Dr. W. K. Fisher on a new tern from the 

 Hawaiian Islands. Dr. William L. Ralph continued the preparation 

 of material for a supplementary volume on the life histories of North 

 American birds, Avith special reference to their nests and eggs, to com- 

 plete the important work left unfinished bj'^ the death of Major C. E. 

 Bend ire. 



Dr. L. Stejneger completed his study of the reptiles of Porto Rico, 

 and handed the manuscript in for publication in November. It is 

 hoped that means will be found for its pu))lication at an early date. 

 "When the year closed he was still engaged in the investigation of the 

 herpetological fauna of eastern Asia. Papers by Doctor Stejneger on 

 Holbrookes salamander and on the reptiles of the Huachuca Moun- 

 tains, Arizona, were published by the Museum during the 3^ear. 



In accordance with the arrangement made with President D. S. 

 Jordan, the Museum published during the 3^ear 14 papers on Japanese 

 fishes, prepared by himself and conjointly with other ichthyologists. 

 Two papers on the osteology of fishes, by Mr. E. C. Starks, were pub- 

 lished, and a brief paper by Dr. Theodore Gill on the use of the name 

 "torpedo." 



In connection with an extensive work on the Tertiary mollusks 

 of Florida, Dr. W. II. Dall prepared reviews of the recent mollusks 

 of the groups Veneridae, Carditacea, Cyrenacea, and Astartidge. Dr. 

 Bartsch continued work on the Pyramidellidae, and had nearly com- 

 pleted the investigation at the close of the year. 



The researches carried on by Mr. G. S. Miller, jr., had for their 

 principal object the elucidation of Doctor Abbott's collections of East 

 Indian mammals. As stated on a previous page, he found in the col- 

 lec-tion studied 17 new species of mouse deer, genus Tragulus, and 16 

 new species in other orders, together with a new genus, Lenothrii: 

 In going over the Museum collection of American bats, he detected 20 

 undescribed species, diagnoses of which are published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He also pre- 

 pared^ a number of notes on different species of bats and rodents. 

 Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, made a study of the ocelots in the 

 Museum collection and in other collections, the results of which were 

 published in September, 1902, as Proceedings paper No. 1286. Dr. 

 M. W. Lyon, jr., completed and handed in for publication his list of 



