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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



PAPERS BY OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND OTHERS, BASED ON 

 MUSEUM MATERIAL. 



ADLER, Cyrus. Museum collections to 

 illustrate religious history and cere- 

 monials. 



Rep. Smithionian Inst. (V. S. Nat.Mus.), 

 1893 (1895), pp. 755-7G8. 



Two Persepolitan casts in the U. S. 



National IVIuseum. 



Jiep. Smithsonian Inst. (IT. S. Nat.Mus.), 

 1893 (1895), pp. 749-753, pis. 1,2. 



AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' 

 UNION. Checklist | of North Ameri- 

 can Birds I Prepared by a Committee | 

 of the I American Ornitliologists' 

 Union. | Second and revised edition. 

 I — I New York | American Ornith- 

 ologists' Union. [ 1895. 



8vo, pp. i-xi, pp. 1-372. 

 This new and revised list of North American 

 birds contains the names of one thousand and 

 seventy-one species and subspecies of recent 

 birds, with a concise statement of their 

 geographical diatributiou; of sixty-four fossil 

 species, arranged under tlie geological periods 

 to which tliey belong : and of t wenty-.six hypo- 

 thetical species, with a short notice regarding 

 their present status. 



ANTHONY, A. W. New races of Colaptes 

 and Passerella from the Pacific Coast. 



Auk, xn. No. 4, Oct., 1895, jip. 347-349. 

 Colaptes chrysoides brunnescens, and Passer- 

 rella iliaca stephenni are described. 



A new species of the genus Dryohaies. 



Atil, xiu. No. 1, Jan., 1896, pp. 31-;)4. 

 Dryobates viUosus montamis is described. 



ASHMEAD, William H. Description of 

 a new species of Tdenomus bred by Mr. 

 F. W. Urich from a Coccid. 



Journ. Trinidad Field Nat. Club, ii, Aug., 

 189.5, p. 220. 

 Describes Telenomus minutis.simus, n. sp. 



Description of a new genus and new 



species of Proctotrypid bred by Mr. 

 F. W. Urich from an Embiid. 



Journ. Trinidad Field Nat. Club, ii, 1895, 

 pp. 264-266. 

 Describes Emhidobia, n. g., and E. urichi, 

 n. sp. 



Report Oil the parasitic Hymeuop- 



tera of the Island of Grenada, comjjris- 

 ing the families CynipidiP, Ichiieu- 

 monida', Braconida', and Proctotry- 

 pidaj. 



ASHMEAD, William H.— Continued. 



Proc. Zool. Sac. £owd.,XLvni, 1895 (Apr., 

 1896), pp. 742-812. 

 Reports on one hundred and eighty-six 

 species of parasitic Hymenoptera collected on 

 this island by Mr. Herbert H. Smith. Six 

 new genera and one hundred and twenty-eight 

 species are new to science. 



Descriptions of new parasitic Hy- 

 menoptera. (Paper No. 2.) 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Phila., xxiii, No. 2, 

 Apr.-June, 1896, pp. 179-234. 

 Describes five new genera and one hundred 

 and twenty-seven new species, sixty-seven of 

 which are in the National Museum. 



BENDIRE, Charles. The Cowbirds. 



Pep. Smithsonian Inst. { U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 1893 (1895), pp. 587-624, pis. 1-3. 



BENEDICT, James E. Preliminary de- 

 scriptions of a new genus and three 

 new species of Crustaceans from an 

 artesian well at San Marcos, Tex. 



Proc. JJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvni, No. 1087, Apr. 



14, 1896, pp. [1], [2]. Advance edition. 



Describes three blind crustaceans, a shrimp, 



an isopod, and an ampbipod, taken by the 



U. S. Fish Commission from au artesian well 



188 feet deep at San Marcos, Texas. 



BISHOP, Louis B. Description of a new 

 Horned Lark and a new Song Sparrow, 

 with remarks on Senuett's Nighthawl^. 



Auk, xni, No. 2, Apr., 1896, i>p. 129 135. 



Otocoris aipe.stris lioytiand Melospiza fasciata 



juddi, both from North Dakota, are described 



. as new subspecies. Remark.s are offered on 



the validity of Chordeiles virginianus sennetti. 



BREWSTER, William. Descriptions of 

 a new Warbler and a new Song Sparrow. 



Auk, XUl, No. 1, Jan., 1896, pp. 44-47. 

 Compsothlyins americana usnea from Maine 

 and Melospiza fasciata merrilH from Mt. Sher- 

 man, Idaho, are describetl as new subspecies. 



CALVERT, Philip P. Notes on the 

 Odonata from East Africa collected by 

 the C hauler expedition. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., xvui, No. 1047, Apr. 



15, 1896, pp. 143-145. 



Gives full synonymy of the seven species of 



dragon Hies collected by the Chanler-Hohnel 



expedition up the Tana River, Jleasurements 



and notes on the genitiilia are added. 



East African Odonata collected by 



Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii. No. 1046, Apr. 

 23, 1896, pp. 121-142. 



