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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



RYDBERG, P. A.— Continued. 



Contrih. U. S. Nat. Herbarium, ill, No. 8, 



June 13, 1896, pp. 463-536. 



Mr. Rydberg gives not only a catalogue of 



the si)ecies wliich he collected in the Black 



nilLs in 1892, but .tIso ar)me account of the 



geography, the goologj', and the floral districts. 



SAUNDERS, Howard, and SALVIN, 

 OsHERT. Catalogue | of the | Gaviae 

 and Tubinares | in the | collection | of 

 the I British Museum. | — | Gavine | 

 (Terns, Gulls, and Skuas) | By | How- 

 ard Saunders. | Tubinares | (Petrels 

 and Albatrosses) | By | Osbert Salvin. 

 I London : | Printed by order of the 

 Trustees. | * * * | igge. 



8vo, pp. i-xv, 1-475, pis. I- VIII. 

 This volume constitutes No. xxv of the 

 Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 

 Descriptions of all the species, synonymy, and 

 lists of the specimens in the British Museum 

 are given. The portion devoted to the Tubi- 

 nares is based partly upon material in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



SCHUCHERT, Charles. Directions for 

 collecting and preparing fossils. 



Bull. U. li. Xat. Mus., No. 39, Part K, 1895, 

 pp. [1]-[31], figs. 1-13. 

 This paper treats of the conditions under 

 which fossils are found, the apparatus 

 required, and methods of collecting and pack 

 ing fossils; also the methods employed in the 

 preparation of fossils for study. A list is 

 added giving some important localities for fos- 

 sils in North America. 



Museum methods. On the arrange- 

 ment of great paleontological collec- 

 tions. 



Science (New series), iii, No. 

 1896, pp. 576-579. 



Apr. 17, 



Dry dredging in the Mississippiau 



Sea. 



Science (New series), ii, 1895, pp. 679-681. 

 An account of a collecting tour through New 

 York, Ontario, and Michigan. 



American fossil Brachiopoda. 



Science (New series), ll, 1895, pp. 722-724. 



This is a short summary of a work entitled 



"A Synopsis of American fossil Brachiopoda, 



including Bibliography and Synonymy," to be 



publi-shed by the U. S. Geological Survey. 



SHUFELDT, Robert W. The Black 

 Skimmer. 



Popvlar Science News, xxix, No. 7, New 

 York, July, 1895, pp. 93-100. 

 A popular account of the birds known as 

 skimmers, of which three species are recog- 

 nized, all belonging to the genus liynchop.i. 



SHUFELDT, Robert W.— Continued. 



The article is illustrated by a pen drawing, 

 being a reduced copy, by the author, of Audu- 

 bon's colored plate of the Black Skimmer, R. 

 niger. 



[Review of] Birdcraft. A field book 



of two hundred song, game, and water 

 birds. By Mabel Osgood Wright. 

 With full-page plates, containing one 

 hundred and twenty-eight birds in the 

 natural colors, and other illustrations. 

 Pp. i-xvi, 1-317. Macmillan & Co., 

 New York, July, 1895. 



Nidiologist, ii. No. 11, New York. July, 

 1895, p. 159. 



[Review of] The Auk, July, 1895. 



Nidiologist, ii, No. 12, New York, Aug., 

 1895, p. 172. 



[Review of] California Water Birds, 



[etc.]. By LeverettM. Loomis. Proc. 

 Cal. .4cad. Sci. (Series 2), v, June 19, 

 1895, pp. 177-224. 



Nidiologist, ii, No. 12, New York, Aug., 

 1895, p. 172. 



[Review of] Ornis. Internat. Zeits. 



fiir die gesammte Ornithol., etc. He- 

 rausgegeben von Professor Dr. R. Bla 

 sius, VIII Jahrgang. Heft i and ii. 

 Braunschweig, 1895, pp. 1-211. 



Nidiologist, ii, No. 12, New York, Aug., 

 1895, p. 171. 



The Long-tailed Jaeger. 



Popidar Science Netcs, xxix, No. 8, New 

 York, Aug., 1895, p. 115. 

 This is a brief article, describing the habits 

 of the birds called Jaegers, of the genera Mega- 

 lestris and Stercorarius. Attention is called to 

 the fine series of these bird.s on exhibition in 

 the ornithological department of the National 

 Museum; and the article is illustrated by a 

 good figure of the long-tailed Jaeger, drawn by 

 the author and reduced from Audubon's col- 

 ored plate. 



[Review of] Game birds at home. 



By Theodore S. Van Dyke. New York : 

 Fords, Howard & Hnlbert, 1895. 16 mo, 

 pp. 1-219. 



Nidiologist, iii, No. 1, New York, Sept., 

 1895, p. 11. 



Terns. 



Popular Science Neivs, xxix. No. 9, New 



York, Sept., 1895, p. 131. 



Contains a short description of the life habits 



of several of these birds, and is illustrated by 



a figure of the head of a specimen of Trudeau's 



Torn (natural size). 



