BIBLIOGRAPHY OF U. 8. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 371 



PART III.— PAPERS BY INVESTIGA TORS NOT OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM, 

 BASED ON MUSEUM MATERIAL. 



THOMAS MAYO BREWER, 

 Boston, Massachusetts. 



[See under Spexckr Fullertox Baird.] 



THOMAS MAREAN CHATARD, 

 Chemist, U. S. Geological Survey. 



[See under Frank Wigglesvvorth Clarke.] 



ELLIOTT COUES, 

 Professor of Anatomy, Medical Department, Columbian University, Washington. 



Key to North American birds, coutaming a coucise account of every 

 species of living and fossil bird at present known from the conti- 

 nent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive 

 of Greenland. Second edition, revised to date, and entirely re- 

 written ; with which are incorporated General Ornithology ; an 

 outline of the structure and classification of birds ; and Field Or- 

 nithology ; a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. 

 By Elliott Coues, M. A., M. D., Ph. D., member of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, &c. Profusely illustrated. Boston : Bstes 

 and Lauriat. 1884. Imp. 8vo. pp. i-x; 1-863. 



HENRY WOOD ELLIOTT. 



The monk-seal of the West Indies, Monachiis tropicalvi, Gray. 



(Science, iii (June 20, 1884), pp. 752-753.) 



Contains a figure of the specimen obtained for the Museum by Professor 

 Poey, in Cuba, and notes upon the history of the species. 



The destruction of carp by the musk-rat {Fiber zibethictis). Methods 

 of trapping the rodent. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Com., iv (1884), pp. 296-297.) 



WALTER FAXON, 

 Assistant Professor of Zoolofjy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Harvard College. No. VII. Descriptions of 

 new species of Camharus ; to which is added a synonymical list of 

 the known species of Cambarus and Astacus. 



(Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sciences, xx, 1884, pp. 107-1.'58.) 



Describes the following new species from the collection of U. B. National 

 Museum : 



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Cambarus pubesccns, Faxon 109 



Cambarus simulans, '' 112 



CambaruH argillicola, " , 115 



