752 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



ELXtAK A. Mkarns. Observations ou the avifauua of portions of Arizona. 

 The Arik, vni, July, 1890, pp. 251-264. 

 (Continued from vn, j). 55.) 



Concluded, beginning with the woodiieekiis ,ind following the .seiiuenco of the A. (). U. 

 Check List, 64 species being mentioned. 

 C. Hart Mekriam. Resnlts of a Biological iSnrvey of the San Francisco Monntain 

 Region and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. 



North Americmi Fcnnta, No. 3, September 11, 1890, pp. 1-136, pi. i-xiii, maps 1-5. 

 C. llAKi' Meruiam. Descriptions of twenty-six new species of North American 

 niamniiils. 



North American Fauna, Ko. 4, October 8, 1890, pp. 1-56. pis. i-iii. 

 George P. Merrill. Preliminary handbook of the departruent of geology in the 

 U. S. National Mnsenm. 



Report of the Smithgonian Institution (V . S. National Museum), 1888 (1890), pp. 1-50. 

 This work i.s intended to briefly outline the aims and present condition of the Department. 

 The name handbook is rather too jiretentious for so brief a paper. 

 George P. Merrill. Report of progress in petrt)graiihy for 1(^87 and 1888. 



Report of the Smithsonian Ingtitution, 1888 (1890), i)p. o27-;i54. 

 George P. Merrill. On grindstones and whetstones. 



Stone. (Indianapolis, Indiana), in. No. 3, July, 1890. 

 George P. Merrill. Lithographic limestones. 



Stone, (Indianai>olis, Indiana), HI, No. 4, August. 1890. 

 George P. Merrill. (1) Asbestos. (2) .Stones used )>y the ancient Assyrians. 

 (3) Something about pumice. 



stone (Indianapolis, Indiana), ni. No. 6, Oetober, 1890. 

 George P. Merrill. Charms and medicinal stones. 



stone (Indianapolis, Indiana), HI, No. 7, November, 1890. 

 George P. Merrill. Critical notes on American marbles. 



Stone (Indianapolis, Indiana), HI, No. 8, December, 1890. 

 George P. Merrill. (1) Concerning agates. (2) Nephrite or jade, 



stone (Indianapolis, Indiana), III, No. 9, January, 1891. 

 George P. Merisill. Some popular fallacies. 



Stone (Indiana])olis, Indiana), ill, No. 10, February, 1891. 



George P. Merrill. (1) Some facts about kaolin. (2) Natural sandblast. 



stone (Indianapolis, Indiana), III, No. 11, March, 1891. 

 George P. Merrill. The formation of mountains. 

 Stone (Indianapolis. Indiana), lir. No. 12, and IV, No. 1. 

 George P. Merrill. Report on the department of lithology :ind physical ge- 

 ology in the U. S. National Museum, 1888. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. National Museum), 1888 (1890), pp. 199-208. 

 E. W. Nelsox. Scott's oriole (/c/<;rH.sj)flr(.w?vnH) in central New Mexico. 



The A%(k, Vlll. April, 1891, pp. 237, 238. 

 William Pai-mer. Notes on the birds observed during the cruise of the United 

 States Fish Commission schooner Grampus in the summer of 1887. 

 Proc. V. S. Nat. 2[us., xill. No. 819, Oc'tober 14, 1890, pp. 249-205. 

 A valuable and interesting account of the habits of the species collected. 

 Charles S. Pros.skr. The thickness of the Devonian and Silurian rocks of western 

 central New York. 



American Geologist, VI, October, 1890, ])p. 199-211. 



The paper gives a revised estimate of the thickness of this series of rocks, ba.sed upon tield 

 work and examination of specimens of well drillings. 

 Charles S. Prosser. The geological position of the Catskill gronj). 

 American Geologist, Vll, June, 1891, pp. 351-366. 



It discusses the correlation of the Catskill group from paleontologic evidence and gives a 

 brief account of the .sequence of the Middhi and tapper Devcmian of the Eastern Catskills. 

 S. V. Proi:i>fit. A collection of stone implements from the District of Columbia- 



Proc. U. S. Nat. 2lns., xill, No. 810, .September 9, 1890, pj). 187-194, pi. x-xiv. 

 Richard Ratiihix. The transplanting of lobsters to the Pacific Coast of the United 

 States. 



Bull. V. S. Fiih Vomm., vili, 1888 (1890), pp. 453-472, i)lates LXX, LXXI. 



