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Rep. v. 8. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

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 The author gives petrographic characters 

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 of samples submitted by Mr. E. D. Preston, 

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Report ou the Department of Geol- 

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Hep. Smithsonian Inst. (U. S. Nat. Mua.), 

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ORTMANN. Arnold. Reports on the 

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Ilidl. Mus. C'onip. Zovl., XXV, No. 8, Sept., 

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 The author gives a list of eighteen species, 

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PALMER, William. Plumages of the 

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Aitk, XI, No. 4, Oct., 1894, pp. 282-291, with 



four text figures. 



Describes the changes of pltnnage in both 



sexes in the young of the Hooded Warbler, 



and corrects some erroneous statements on 



these points in the literature of the species. 



An Asiatic Cuckoo on the Pribyloff 



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Aiil; XI, No. 4, Oct., 1894, p. 325. 

 Mentions the capture by himself of a speci- 

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Four additions to the birds of the 



Virginias. 



Auk, XI, No. 4, Oct., 1894. pp. 333-334. 

 Records four species, Acanthis linaria, Am- 

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PERGANDE, Theodor. The Cotton or 

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Insect Life, vii. No. 4, Mar., 1895, pp. 309- 



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Full notes are given, with a list of food 



plants, and a description of the species. It is 



shown for the first time that Apis citrifulii, 



PERGANDE, Theodor— Continued. 

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POLLARD, Charles Louis. The genua 

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Bull. Torrey Botan. Olub, xxil. May 15, 



1895, p. 231. 



Separates Zenobia, Don. from Andromeda, L., 



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RATH BUN, Mary J. Notes on the crabs 

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Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., xvii. No. 984, July 

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 Fifty-five species are noticed, of which eight 

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Descriptions of a new genus and 



four new species of crabs from the 

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Proc. r. S. Xat. Mus., xvn. No. 986, July 

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RATHBUN, Richard. Report on the 

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RICHMOND, Charles W. A contribu- 

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Auk, XII, No. 1, Jan., 1895, pp. 19-32. 

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On the status of Bischoff' s Song 



Sparrow (Melospiza insignis, Baird). 

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 An attempt to show that this sijeiies should 

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Diagnosis of a new genus of Trogons 



{Hetcrotrogon), based ou Hapalodmna 

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Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvu, No. 1024, May 

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 derma vittatum, and the female, previously 

 unknown, is here described. 



