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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



RIDGWAY, Robert— Continued. 

 Mniotiltida' — The Wood Warblers. | 

 — I Washington: | Government Print- 

 ing Office. I 1902. 



S vo., pp. i-xx, 1-834, pLs. i-xxii. (Pub- 

 lished Oct. 16, 1902.) 

 The present part of this monograph deals 

 with four exclusively American families of 

 Pas.seres (Tanagrida-, Icteridse, Cterebidfe, 

 and Mniotiltid»), embracing 77 genera and 

 ■433 species and subspecies. The treixtment of 

 species is similar to that followed in the first 

 part of the work. Brief descriptions of the 

 known plumages are given, followed by 

 measurements, the geographical ranges, and 

 a full synonymy. The following forms are 

 introduced as new: P?i€enicothraupis rubicn 

 nelsoni (p. 145), Compsothlypis americana ra- 

 malinx (p. 486), Geothlypis incompta (p. 677), 

 G. erigua (p. 677), G. Jlnvida (p. 678), G. nel- 

 soni mkrorhyncha (p. 68-')), Wilsonia piisilbi 

 chryseola (p. 714), BasUcuterus culicivorus fla- 

 vescens (p. 755), and Bhodinocichla rosea exi- 

 mia (p. 770). Outline drawings representing 

 the characters of the 77 genera^reated in this 

 l>art are given in the 22 plates accompanying 

 the volume. 



[Review of] Pycraft's Classifica- 

 tion of the Falconiformes. 



Science (new series), xvii. Mar. 27, 1903, 

 509-511. 

 A review of Pycraft's paper on the classifi- 

 cation of this group, in which the reviewer 

 points out the great similarity between the 

 present arrangement and one formulated and 

 published by him nearly thirty years before. 



RILEY, J. H. The authority for the 

 name Geotrygon chrysia. 



Auk XIX, No. 4, Oct., 1902, p. 397. 

 Calls attention to the fact that Salvador!, not 

 Bonaparte, should be quoted as authority for 

 the above name. 



Description of a new Quail Dove 



from the West Indies. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Feb. 21, 1903, 

 pp. 1:3-14. 

 Geotrygon sabx described from Saba Island. 



ROSE, Joseph N. Studies of Mexican 

 and Central American plants. No. 3. 

 Contrib. V. S. Nat. Herb., viii, No. 1, June, 

 1903, pp. 1-55, pis. 1-12, figs. 1-11. 

 Describes two new genera and 58 species, 

 revises several genera such as Polianthes, 

 Manfreda, Cologania, and Cornus, and restores 

 Manfreda to generic rank. 



ROSE, Joseph N., with HEMSLEY, W. 

 BoTTiNG. Diagnoses Specierum generis 

 Juliana Schlecht. America Tropicse. 

 Annals of Botany, xvii, No. 66, Mar., 1903. 

 pp. 443-446. 

 The genus and species are redescribed and 

 two new species are added. 



This paper is to be followed by an illustrated 

 monograph, 



SCHUCHERT, Charlks. On the Lower 

 Devonic and Ontaric formations of 

 Maryland. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat Mus., xxvi. No. 1313, Feb. 

 3, 1903, pp. 413-124. 

 Describes in detail the entire Upper Siluric 

 strata of Maryland, which have a united 

 thickness of 3,169 feet. These formations are 

 followed by the Lower Devonic deposits, with 

 a thickness of 608 feet (Helderbergian, 260 

 feet, and Ori.skanian, 348 feet). The various 

 formations are based on fos.sil content as lixed 

 by the New York series, are of the North At- 

 lantic type, and were laid down in the Cum- 

 berland Mediterranean. 



[Review of] "Morse on living 



brachiopods." 



Am. Geologist, Feb., 1903, pp. 112-121. 

 A review of "Observations on living brach- 

 iopods," by Edward S. Morse. The reviewer 

 adds other observations based on fossil forms 

 and especially regarding the punctate .shell 

 of brachiopods. 



The I. H. Harris collection of in- 



vertebrate fossils in the V. S. National 

 Museum. 



Am. Geologist, Mar., 1903, pp. 131-135. 

 This paper presents a biographic sketch of 

 Mr. Harris and an account of his large Cin- 

 cinnatian collection, as now installed in this 

 Museum. Also a list of the many collectors 

 and paleontologists born or raised in the re- 

 gion of the Cincinnatian rocks. 



On the Manlius formation of New 



York. 



Am. Geologist, Mar., 1903, pp. 160-178. 

 The "Coralline limestone " correllated with 

 the Niagara, is here shown to be but a part of 

 the Manlius formation as originally defined 

 by Vanuxem. The Manlius formation is 

 then redefined; the fauna of the Cobleskill 

 member is also reviewed. 



SIMPSON, Charles T. A new Naiad 

 from New Zealand. 



Nautilus, XVI, No. 3, July, 1902, p. 30. 

 Diplodon ivebsteri is described as new. 



SIMPSON, Charles T., and HENDER- 

 SON, John B., Jr. A new Haitien 

 Chondropoma. 



Nautilus, XVI, No. 8, Dec, 1902, pp. 88-89. 

 Chondropoma siiperbuiii, from Thomazeau, 

 Haiti, is described and figured as new. The 

 type is in the collection of the U. S. National 

 Museum (No. 168798). 



SMITH, John B. Contributions toward 

 a monograph of the lepidopterous fam- 

 ily Noctuidfe of Boreal North America. 

 A revision of the moths referred to the 

 genus Leucania, with descriptions of 

 new species. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxv, No. 1283, Sept. 

 13, 1902, pp. 159-209, pis. v, vi. 



