BIBLIOGEAPHY. 



143 



MOORE, J. Percy— Continued. 



cinniK'rutod. They are roforrcMl to 15 genera, 

 1 (if which is new. The iiiateriiU comes from 

 ditTerent parts of the world. 



MURDOCH, John. A historical notice 

 of Ross's Rosy Gull ( RhodoKtcthia rosea) . 

 Auk, XVI, No.2, Apr.,l.S99, pp. 14G-155. 

 An exhaustive history of the species. 



NELSON, E. W. Descriptions of new 

 birds from Mexico. 



Auk, .wi.No. 1, Jan., 1899, p.2.'S. 

 The following species and subspecies are 

 described as new: CoUnusvirginianusmacula- 

 tus, CaUipepla gamheli fidvipectus, Aphelocoma 

 sieberi colimsc, A. s. potosina, Pachyrhamphuii 

 major uropygialis, Meloitpiza adusta, Meloi^piza 

 goldmani, Spizella socialis mexicana, Vireo no- 

 veboracensis mierus, and Geotkijpis flaviceps. 



Descriptions of new birds from 



northwestern Mexico. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xin. May 29, 1899. 

 pp. 25-31. 

 Twelve species and subspecies of birds are 

 described as new, viz: Aniazona albi'frons sal- 

 tuensis, Antrostomus goldmani, Aphelocoma 

 grisea, Pipilo fuscus udermedius, Cardinalis 

 cardinalis afflnis, C. c. sinaloensis, Arremonops 

 superciliosa sinalox, Basiletderus mflfrovs cau- 

 datus, Thryothorns felix pallidm, Heleodytes 

 stridulus, Myadestes obscurus cinereus, and 

 Catharus olivascens. 



NEWBERRY, John Strong. The later 

 extinct floras of North America. A 

 posthumous work edited by Arthur 

 Hollick. 



Monograph U. S. Gcol. Sun'., xxxv, 1898, 

 pp. 1-17, 1-295, pis. 1-08. 

 This is mainly a description of specimens 

 originally illustrated and published without 

 text, in 1876, under the title " Illustrations of 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary plants of the Western 

 Territories of the United States," a revised 

 edition of which (with 43 additional plates) 

 was published subsequently, but withheld 

 from distribution. 



NUTTING, Charles Cleveland. Hy- 

 droida from Alaska and Puget Sound. 

 Proc. U. ,S. ^'at. Mus., xxi, No. 1171, Apr. 

 29, 1899, pp. 741-753, pis. Lxn-LXiv. 

 A considerable proportion of the material 

 upon which this paper is based was collected 

 by the Young Naturalists' Society in connec- 

 tion with the University of Washington, 

 which organized a dredging e.xpedition m 

 Puget Sound in the summer ot 1895. 



A table of the distribution of the 17 sjiecii's 

 in the collectifin previously described is fol- 

 lowed by dcscrii)tions of 5 new species, and 

 notes on 2 known species. 



OBERHOLSKll, Harry C. Description 

 of a new North American thrush. 



Auk. \\. No. 1, Oct., 189S, pp. ;»3-30(;. 

 llyUirirlilti {i.<tiil(it(i alm:r, a new subspecies, 

 is descrilicd. 



A revision of the wrens of the genus 



Thryoviancs Sclater. 



Proc. II N. Nat. Mus., x.\i. No. 1153, Nov. 

 19,1898, pp. 421-450. 



Descrijjtion of a new Ifi/loclrJiht. 



Auk, XVI, No. 1, Jan., 1899, pp. 23-25. 

 Hylocichla ustulata cedica is described as 

 new. 



A synopsis of the Blue Honey- 

 Creepers of Tropical America. 



Auk, XVI, No. 1, Jan , 1899, pp. 31-35. 



A list of the forms of Blue Honey-creepers 

 is given, together with their synonymy and 

 correct names. 



Cyanerpes is proposed as a new term in 

 place of Arbelorhina. 



OSGOOD, Wilfred H. Chamiea fasdata 

 and its subspecies. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii. May 29, 1899, 

 pp. 41,42. 

 The Wren-tits are found to belong to two 

 forms, one of which is here named Chanuva 

 fasciata phxa. 



The form formerly described as C. f. hen- 

 shawi is here shown to be true fasciata, or so 

 near it as to be inseparable. 



PALMER, William. Our small eastern 

 shrikes. 



Auk, XV, No. 3, July, 1898, pp. 244-258. 

 A review of the small shrikes of eastern 

 North America. Laniusludovicianus migrans 

 is described as a new subspecies. Based 

 largely upon Museum material. 



POLLARD, Charles Louis. Further ob- 

 servations on the eastern acaulescent 

 violets. 



Botan. Gazette {V), xxvi. No. 5, Nov., 1898, 

 pp. 325-342, 1 fig. 

 A synopsis of the various species of this 

 group, with a key and full bibliography One 

 new species, Viola insignis, is described and 

 figured with a text cut, also a new variety of 

 V. primula'/olia {va,T.auslralis) V communis is 

 proposed as a new name for the plant vari- 

 ously known as V. obliqua and V. cucultata, 

 which are known to be distinct species. 



RANKIN, W. M. The Northrop collec- 

 tion of Crustacea from the Bahamas. 



Ainials N. Y. Acad. Set., xi, No. 12, Aug., 

 1898, pp. 225-254, pis. XXIX, xxx. 

 One new sjiecies, Uca Icptodactyla (Guerin 

 MS.), included by Mr. Rankin in his list, was 



