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Gray, Sam., Poultry. — The Dorking Fowl. With 1 pi. in : Agricult. Gaz. 

 N. S. Wales, Vol. 4. No. 11. p. 886. 

 Characteristics of the Breed. 

 Bishop, Louis B., Helminthophila leucobronchialis . in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. 

 p. 79—80. 



North Haven, Conn. B. thinks with Ridgway, that it is a leucochroic phase of 

 H. pinus. 

 Brown , Edw. J., The Black Tern [Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis] at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 73. 

 The second record. 

 Bishop , Louis B., The same species in Connecticut, ibid. p. 74. 

 Mackay, Geo. H., Further News of the Gull ,Dick' [Larus argentatus smithsoni- 

 anus]. in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 73. 



One particular bird, coming to the light-ship of the Brenton Reef in April and 

 October of the last 22 years. 

 Palmer, E. D., Capture of another Flammulate Owl [Megascops ßammeola] in 

 California in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 78. 

 The fourth specimen from the State. 

 Numenius borealis, v. Charadrius dorninicus, G. H. Mackay. 

 Bangs, Outram, Another Record of the Breeding of the Saw-whet Owl [Nyctale 



acadica) in Eastern Massachusetts, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 77 — 78. 

 Bishop, Louis B., Olor columbianus in Connecticut, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. 

 p. 74. 



First specimen in the last fifty years. 

 Bangs, Outram, Distribution of the Hudsonian Chickadee [Parus hudsonicus], in: 

 The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 81—82. 



Contradicts some statements of Rhoads. 

 Mackay, Geo. H., Habits of the double-crested Cormorant [Phalacrocorax dilo- 

 phus) in Rhode Island, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 18 — 25. 

 Observations made on the »Cormorant Rocks«. 

 Lawrence, R. H. , The California Vulture [Pseudogryphus californianus] in the 



San Gabriel Range, California, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 76—77. 

 Ridgway, Rob., Note on Rougetius aldabranus. in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. 

 p. 74. 



The form from Assumption island in not gularis, but a n. sp.: Abbotti. 

 Edson, John M., The parasitic Jaeger [Stercorarius parasiticus] at BellinghamBay, 

 Washington, in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 73. 

 New for the State. 

 Miller, Gerrits., The Plumbeous Vireo in Central New York [Vireo solitnriiis 

 plumbeus]. in: The Auk, Vol. 11. No. 1. p. 79. 



First occurrence of the bird beyond the limits of its usual range. 



e) Mammalia. 

 Oordier, J. A., Sur un procédé de délimitation des régions glandulaires dans 

 la muqueuse du tube digestif, in: Soc. Philom. Paris, C. R. Janv. 1894. 

 No. 6. p. 2—3. 



Imbiber la muqueuse de picrocarmin de Ranvier et la plonger durant quelques 

 instants dans une solution aqueuse très-faible (1/30) d'acide acétique. 

 Goodricli, E. S., On the fossil Mammalia from the Stonesfield Slate. With 

 1 pi. in: Quart. Journ. Micr. Sc. Vol. 35. P. 3. p. 407—432. 



By working away the matrix G. exposed in five jaws new cusps and teeth. In 

 Amphitherium Prevostii he exposed the first complete tritubercular-sectorial type 

 from Stonesfield. The common ancestor of Placentals and Marsupials possessed 

 teeth of this type. 

 Jolyet, F., Untersuchungen über die Athmung der Cetaceen. in : Naturwiss. 

 Rundschau, 9. Jhg. Nr. 4. p. 49. 



Arch, de Physiol. (5.) T. 5. 1893. p. 610. — An einer in d. zool. Station in 

 Arcachon gehaltenen Phocaena communis. 



