REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 27? 



Department of the Interior : U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the 

 U. S. National Museum. No. 26. • Avifauna Columbiana : Being a 

 list of Birds ascertained to inhabit the District of Columbia, with 

 the times of arrival and departure of such as are nonresidents, and 

 brief notices of habits, &c. The second edition, revised to date, 

 and entirely rewritten. By Elliott Coues, M. D., Ph. D., Professor 

 of Anatomy in the National Medical College, &c, and D. Webster 

 Prentiss, A. M., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeu 

 tics in the National Medical College, etc. Washington : Govern- 

 ment Printing Office. 1883. 8vo. pp. 1-133. 4 maps. 



The following Museum circulars which were printed as " separates " dur- 

 ing the year, were also published in the Appendix to volume vi, Pro- 

 ceedings of the U. S. National Museum*, for 1883. 



No. 19. Classification of the Materia Medica collection of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, and Catalogue of Specimens. By James M. Flint, 

 Surgeon U. S. Navy, Curator of Materia Medica. 8vo. 1-14 pp. 



No. 20. Request for Specimens of Drugs, and Information concerning 

 them. 8 vo. 1 p. 



No. 21. Circular relative to contributions of Aboriginal Antiquities, to 

 the U. S. National Museum. By Charles Rau. 8vo. 4 pp. 



No. 22. Brief directions for removing and preserving the skins of Mam 

 mals. By William T. Hornaday, Chief Taxidermist. 8vo. 1-6 pp. 



No. 23. Instructions for taking paper moulds of inscriptions in stone, 

 wood, bronze, &c. By Ensign A. P. Niblack, U. S. N. 8vo. pp. 

 1-17. 



Parts A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Bulletin 27, U. S. N. M., were printed as " sep- 

 arates" in 1883, and are mentioned in this bibliography under the names of 

 the authors. See Goode, Rathbtjn, Ridgway, Winslow, Brown, Bean. 



PART II.— PAPERS BY OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM. 



Baird, Spencer F. — The instruction of naval midshipmen in taxi- 

 dermy, ichthyology, etc., at the United States National Museum, 

 and on board the steamers of the United States Fish Commission. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Commission, in, pp. 239-243. 1883.) 



Bean, Tarleton H. — Description of a species of whitefish, Coregonus 

 hoyi, (Gill) Jordan, called " smelt" in some parts of New York. 

 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, pp. 658-660. 1883.) 



. List of the Fishes. (In Stearns' u Notes on the Natural His- 

 tory of Labrador.") 



(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Aug 1, 1883,) vol. VI, pp. 123-125.. 



The names of seventeen species collected for the U. S. National Museum 

 by Mr. W. A. Stearns in 1882. The common names and the remarks are 

 by Mr. Stearns. One of the most interesting of the species is Scomber aconi' 

 Wus, from Labrador. 



