THE MUSEUM. 



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TMarsh Hawk 5 



Motmot .: 23 



Mexican Crow 23 



Mica Schist , 27 



Mongolian Plover 57 



Mammal Labels 111 



Mammal Skins, Preparation of 109 



Murex endivia 121 



My Honeymoon 131 



Muskrat 146 



Meadow Mouse 147 



Moa 211 



Millerite 248 



"Missing Link" 252 



Meteorite 345 



Nashville Warbler 5 



Nesting of the Whip-poor-will 6 



Night Hawks Eggs 6 



Nesting Habits of the Yellow-billed Tropic 



Bird 15 



Notes from the Interior of Mexico 23 



Natural Preservatiou of Leaves, Ferns and 



other Vegetable and Animal Remains. . . .44 

 Notes on the Nesting'of the DuckjHawk. . .69 



Nidorella armata 76 



Notes on the Preparation^ of Rough Skele- 

 tons 103, 138 



Nesting of the White-tail Kite 112 



Nutlal's Woodpecker 112 



Northern Shrike 119 



Notes on the Northern Raven in Maine. . .361 



Northern Hare 146 



Noi'thern Grey Squirrel 150 



Northern Flying Squirrel ' 152 



National Academy of Sciences 212 



New, or Little Known Plants 215 



Nickle Ore at Keokuk, la 248 



Northern Scientific Expedition 303 



Ophiom usium armigerum 19 



" " lymani 19 



Ophiopholis aculeata 19 



Ornithological Paradise 39 



Oreaster tun-itus 75 



Otter 184 



Parula VVarbler 6 



Porcuj)ine 9, 146 



Pufiinparrakeet 13, 50 



Pigeon Guillemot 38 



Phlylosiphonia Calif ornis 47 



Pied-billed Grebe 50 



Pine Grosbeak 52, 116 



Pallas' Murre 53 



Paroquet Auklet 54 



Pacific Kittiwake 55 



Parasitic Jaeger 55 



Pacific Fulmar 56 



Pacific Golden Plover 57 



Pintail 86, 122 



Pacific Eider 101 



Pelagic Cormorant 101 



Preparation of Mammal Skins for Study. .109 



Preservative for Mammal Skins Ill 



Pileated Woodpecker 119, 187 



Prairie Mouse 148 



Pleasures of a Spring Day 178 



Petroleum 206 



Puquoise Meteorite 348 



Polv pody : The Common 330 



Parnassius Smintheus 264 



Quartzite 27 



Red-shouldered Hawk 5, 187 



Raphyrus hixoni 47 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak 6 



Razor-billed Auk 11, 50 



Rock Wren 38 



Rannella leucostoma 48 



Red-throated Diver 50 



Rusty Blackbird 53 



Redpoll 53 



Red-legged Kittiwake 55 



Red-headed Woodpecker 73, 119 



Riley, Chas. V 357 



Red-backed Sandpiper 85 



Red-faced Cormorant 101 



Ruffed Grouse .118 



Red-breasted Nuthatch 119 



Rodents of Michigan, The 144 



Red Squii'rel, Chickaree 150 



Reported Extinction of the Genus Achatinel- 

 la and Marvelous Development of a Flor- 

 ida Fasciolai'ia. Notes on 180 



Roseate Tern 186 



Red-shafted Flicker 363 



Rocky Mountain Pica 265 



Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 



Solitary Vireo 5 



Solaster endeca 20 



Serpent Stars 18 



Shell Hunt 40 Feet Under the Sea 45 



Struthiolaria scutulata 48 



Snow Bunting 52, 119 



Slaty-backed Gull 55 



Smithsonian Institution and U. S. National 



Museum 368 



Short-tailed Albatros 56 



Secretai'y Bird 71 



Steliar's Duck 101 



Snowy Owl , 103 



Saw-whet Owl 119 



Screech Owl 119, 153 



Snowy Owl 119 



Sand-hill Crane. 123, 251 



Sceloporus undulapus 137 



Snake, Preparation of the Skeleton of 139 



Short-tailed Meadow Mouse 147 



Stripped Prairie Squirrel, Gopher 149 



Spring N otes 170 



