BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 745 



W. 0. Atwatkr. The What and Why of Agricultural Experiment Stations. 



Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1, U. S. Department of Agriculture, June, 1889, p. 10. 

 W. O. Atwatkr. Cooperative Field Experiments with Fertilizers. 



Circular No. 7, U. S. Department of Agriculture, March, 1889, p. 39. 

 W. O. Atwatkr. Explanations and Directions for Soil Tests with Fertilizers. 



Circular No. 8, U. S. Department of Agriculture, March, 1889, p. 11. 

 W. O. Atwatkr. Digest of the Annual Reports of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations in the United States for 1888, part I. 



Bull. Experiment Station, No. 2, C S. Department of Agriculture, June, 1889, p. 258. 

 Edward Bartlktt. A Monograph | of the | Weaver-Birds, | Ploceida 1 , | Arhoreal 

 and Terrestrial | Finches, | Fringillidae, | By | Edward Bartlett, | Curator of the 



Maidstone Museum (Kent, England.) | | Contents (Names of species treated 



in each separate part). Maidstone: Published by the author. 1888. Printed 

 by J. Burgess-Brown, Week Street. 



Royal 8vo, illustrated by hand-colored lithographic plates. 



Part i contains text and colored plates of the following species: (1) Chrysomitris atrata, the 

 Black Siskin; (2) Textor dinemelli, the Great Whiteheaded Weaver; (3) Textor boehmi, 

 Bohm's Weaver; (4) Pyt rh ulanipalensis, the Nepanlese Bullfinch; (5) Paroaria cucullata, 

 the Crested Dominican Cardinal; (6) Munia oryzivora, the Java Sparrow (two plates). 

 Part ii contains the following: (1) Cardinalis virginiauus, tho Virginian Nightingale; (2) 

 Chrysomitris xcropygialis, the Yellow-ruraped Siskin; (3) Passer domesticus, the House 

 Sparrow; (4) Textor panicivorus, the Great Red-billed Weaver (two plates); (5) Textor 

 albiroslris, the Great Black Weaver. 

 G. Baur. Osleologische Notizeu iiber Reptilien (Fortsetzuug in). 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, XI, No. 285, August 6, 1888, pp. 417-421. 



Treats of Proganochelys quenstedtii Baur. Attempt at a classification of the typical Pleuro- 

 dira; osteological peculiarities of the living Pleurodira; and Colpochelys Garmaa. 

 G. Baur. Osteologische Notizeu iiber Reptilien (Fortsetzuug iv). 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, XI, No. 291, October 22, 1888, pp. 592-597. 



Besides additional notes on the osteological peculiarities of the living Pleurodira, and a short 

 one on the occipital condyle of Pelomedusa subrufa La Cep., the present " Fortsetzung " 

 is devoted to a discussion of the "Systematic position of Dermatemys Gray," with the 

 result that the genus is placed in a special family, Dermatemydidce, and a similar article 

 on Manouria, which is made a subfamily, Manouriince, under \A\e.Testudinid<x. 

 G. Baur. Osteologische Notizeu iiber Reptilien (Fortsetzuug v). 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, XI, No. 296, December 31, 1888, pp. 736-740. 



The various subheadings of this article indicate the nature of the notes as follows: Triony- 

 choidea; the quadrato-jugale of Terrapene Carolina L. Peculiarities in the skulls of Stau- 

 rotypidce, Cinosternidre, and Dermatemydidce,- Pleurodira; the saddle-shaped articulations 

 of the cervical vertebrae of Podocnemis. 

 G. Baur.- Osteologische Notizeu iiber Reptilien (Fortsetzung vi). 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, xu, No. 298, January 21, 1889, pp. 40-47. 



The present series contains notes, relating to Testudinata, on the epipterygoid of the Pinnata,- 

 on tho number of pleuralia (costalia) in the Chelonians; on the peripheralia (marginalia) 

 of the Pinnata; on tho connection of carapace with plastron in the Pinnata,- on tho 

 absence of foramen palatinum in the Cheloniidce and the Dermochelydidce ; on the nuchale 

 of thePinnata ,• and on the cervical vertebra; of the Pinnata. 

 G. Baur. Notes on the American Triony chidce. 

 American Vaturalist, \xn, 1888, pp. 1121, 1122. 



Recognizes two genera, Platypeltis, with one species, P. agassizii Baur (P.ferox Agass., nee 

 Schn.), and Aspidonect.es, with six species. 

 G. Baur. The Systematic Position of Meiolania, Owen. 



Annals and. Magazine of Natural History, (6) in, January, 1889, pp. 54-62. 



The result of the author's researches is summed up as follows: ' I am inclined to consider 

 Meiolania as a highly specialized branch of i tie true land-tortoises." 

 G. Baur. On Aulacochelys, Lydekker, and the systematic position of Anosteira 

 Leidy, and Pseudotrionyx, Dollo. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6) III, March, 1889, pp. 273 276. 



The an ill 1 0' considers the genus Aulacochelys as not entitled to recognition, being based upon 

 trivial characters. He also gives his reasons for retelling Anosteira either to the Stauro- 

 typidce or the < Unosternidn; but concludes by provisionally following Boulenger m placing 

 this genus with Pseudotrionyx in a separate family. 



