5*22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Leon hard Stejneger — Continued. 



Brief directions for collecting, preserving, labelling, and transporting lierpetological speci- 

 mens, chiefly for the use of correspondents of the Museum. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Annotated list of Reptiles and Batrachians collected liy 

 Dr. C. Hart Merriam and party, in Idaho, 1890. 



North American Fauna, No. 5. July 30, 1891, pp. 109-113. 

 Leonhard Stejneger and Frederick C. Test. Description of a new genus and 

 species of Tailless Batrachian from Tropical America. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., XIV, No. 847, pp. 167, 1G8, pi. in. 

 Described as a new genus and species Tatraprionjordani. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Notes on Japanese Birds contained in the Science College 

 Museum, Imperial University, Tokio, Japan. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mas., XIV, No. 874, pp. 489-497. October 26, 1891. 

 The following species are here for the lirst time introduced into the fauna of Japan: Aestrelata 

 leucoptera, Glareola orientalis, Tringa ferruginea, Phaethon eandidus, Ardea purpurea, Hal- 

 cyon pileata, Turdus hortulorum, Emberiza leucocephala, E.pusilla, and with some doubt, 

 Erithacut sibilans, Lanius sphenocereus, and Munia atricapilla. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Notes on the Cubital Coverts in the Birds of Paradise and 

 Bower Birds. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Man., xiv, No. 875, pp. 499,500, October 29, 1891. 



Controverts Prof. J. G. Goodchild's observation as t • > the abnormality of the arrangement 

 ol the cubital coverts in the Birds of Paradise and the Bower Birds, and shows it to be nor- 

 mally Passerine. 

 Leonhard Ste.ineger. Scott B. Wilson's "Aves Hawaiiensis." 



The Auk, tx, January, 1892. pp. 63,64. 

 Review. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. ('apt. Thomas Wright Blackiston, R. A. 

 The Auk. IX, January, 1892, pp. 75.76. 

 Obituary. 



Witmeu Stone. A Revision of the Species of Molothrus allied to M. lionariensis 

 (Cm.). 



The Auk. VIII, No. 4. October, 1891. pp. 344-34S. 



An excellent and timely revision of a difficult group. One species, If. venezuelensis (p. 347), 

 described as new. 

 Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy. Report ou the investigations of the U. S. Fish Commis- 

 sion steamer Albatross for the year ending June 30, 1889. 



Report TJ. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1889 (1891), pp. 395-512, pis. l-lu. 

 These investigations embraced the western coast of North America, from Alaska to Lower 

 California, including the Gulf of California. In the text are many references to different 

 forms of marine invertebrates which have not yet been separately reported upon. 



Z. L. Tanner, U. S. Navy. The fishing grounds of Bristol Bay, Alaska. A prelimi- 

 nary report upon the investigations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Alba- 

 Iross during the summer of 1890. 



Bull. F. S. Fish <\mi., IX, 1889 (1891), pp. 279-288, pis. CVIII-CX. 



During the cruise above mentioned many valuable invertebrates were obtained which will 

 in time be transferred to the National Museum. 



Frederick C. Test, Leonhard Stejneger and. (See under Leonhard Stejne- 

 ger.) 

 William J. Thomson. Te Pito Te Henna, or Easter Island. 



Rejwrt of the Smithsonian Institution (TJ. S. National Museum), 1889 (1891), pp. 447-552. pis. 

 xn-LX; 20 text figs. 

 Frederick W. Trie. The Puma, or American Lion: Felis Concolor of Linnaaus. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution (TJ. S. National Museum), 1889 (1891), pp. 591-608, pi. 

 xciv. 

 Frederick \Y. True. Report on the Department of Mammals in the U. S. National 

 Museum, 1889. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution (C. S. National Museum), 1889 (1891), pp. 349-355. 

 George Yasey. Report on the Department of Recent Plants in the National Museum, 

 1889 (1891). 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution ( I T . S. National Museum), 1889 (1891), p. 399. . 



