500 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Ward, Lester F., U. S. Geological Survey; Honorary Curator, Department of Fos- 

 sil Plants, U. S. National Museum. 



Watkins, J. Elfreth, Curator, Section of Steam Transportation and Engineering, 

 U. S. National Museum. 



Wilder, Harris H., Northampton, Mass. 



Williams, George H., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



Wilson, Thomas, Curator, Department of Prehistoric Anthropology, U. S. National 

 Museum. 



Yeates, William S., Assistant Curator, Department of Minerals, U. S. National 

 Museum. 



LIST OF PAPERS. 



A. C. Adams and W. C. Kendall. Report upon an investigation of the fishing 

 grounds off the west coast of Florida. 



Butt. r. S. Fish Commission, Vol. ix, 1889, pp. 289-31J, 1 text figure, pi. cxi, 1891. 

 List of the Brachyura collected by W. C. Kendall, pp. 303-300. 

 Cyrus Adler, Report on the Section of Oriental Antiquities in (lie U. S. National 

 Museum, 1889. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution il\ S. National Museum), 1889 (1891), pp. 289-292. 

 Alexander Agassi/.. Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Cen- 

 tral America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of 

 California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U S. Fish Commis- 

 sion steamer Albatross, Lieut. -Corninauder Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding. 



I. Calamocrinus Diomedse, a new stalked crinoid. 



Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. xvu, No. 2, 1892, pages 90. plates 32. 



II. General sketch of the expedition of the Albatross, from February to May, 

 1891. 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XXIII, No. 1, February, 1892, pages 89, plates 22. 

 The specimens collected on this expedition are being worked up under the supervision of 

 Mr. Agassiz. after which a set will be deposited in the National Museum. 

 J. A. Allen. Further notes on Maximilian types of South American birds. 

 Butt. Am. Mus. Nat. His., New York, m, No. 2, 1891, pp. 199-202. 



The species treated critically are as follow s : Myiotkera ardesiaea Max.. made the type of a 

 new genus; Rhopocichla Allen; Anthos poecilopterus Max. (Geobates poecilopterus) -. Cypselus 

 acutus Max., identified as Ghcetura cinereiventris Scl. 

 J. A. Allen. On a collection of birds from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, made 

 up by Mr. Herbert H. Smith. Part i, Oscines. 



Bull. Am. Mus. NOt. Hist. Ill, No. 2, September 29, 1891, pp. 337-380. 



Eighty seven species arc mentioned, of which Calliste margaritce Allen (No. 31) and Bono- 

 trichia eapensis costaricensis Allen (p. 375) — the latter from Central America, however — arede- 

 scribed as new. The critical notes accompanying this paper are extensive and important, em- 

 bracing as they do descriptions of plumages previously undescribed, explanation of variations, 

 emendations of synonyms', etc. 

 J. A. Allen. The North American species of the genus Colaptcs, considered with 

 special reference to the relationships of C. auratus and C. caper. 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., IV. No. 1, March 8, 1892, pp. 21-44. pi. ii. 



A very elaborate treatise on a subject of the highest importance in connection with the 

 question of the origin of species. The conclusion reached is that the numerous specimens of 

 intermediate character are actual hybrids, and not mere " intergrades," thus confirming the 

 views of Prof. Baird, published in 1858. 

 E. A. Andrews. Report upon the Annelida Polychaia of Beaufort, N. C. 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. xiv, pp. 277-302, pis. xii-xvm, 1891. 



The new species described are as follows: Harmothoe aculeata, Eunice ornata, Diopatra 

 magna, Ophelina agilis, Polydora eommensalis, Axiothea mucosa, Petaloproctus socialis, Am- 

 mochares cedificator, Loimia turgida. 



Edward F. Ayres, William S. Yeates and. (See under William S. Yeates.) 



