IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Hay. O. I». Description of a new species of Amblystonia (Amblystoma copeianum) from 



Indiana [with Plate XIV] 209-213 



Notes on a collection of fishes from Florida, with descriptions of new or little-known 



species., 



552-559 



[Etheostoma davisoni, Zygonectes auroguttatus, nn. ss.] 



niu^itrations. list of vii 



Jordan. l>avi«I S. Note on the scientific name of the yellow perch, the striped bass, and 



other American fishes ^ 72-73 



Note on Mr. Garman's paper on " The American Salmon and Trout" 81-83 



Identification of the species of Cyprinidse and Catostomidse, described by Dr. Charles 



Girard iti the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1856... 118-127 



On the Ktheostoma variatium of Kirtland 16.^165 



Note on Epinephelus nigritus..., 208-209 



A list of the fi.shes known from the Pacific coast of tropical America, from the Tropic 



of Cancer to Panama 361-394 



Note on some Linnaean names of American fishes 394-396 



.Ior«laii, Oavid S., and Eigrennian, Carl H. Notes on skeletons of Etheostomatinse 68-72 

 •Jordan. !>avi«l S.. and Meek, Seth E. List of fishes collected in Iowa and Missouri 



in August, ISSt, with descriptions of three new species 1-17 



[Notroi>is gilherti, Ammocrypta elara, Etheostoma iowse, nn. .ss.] 



A review of the American species of flying fishes (Exocoetus) 44-67 



[^Fodiator, n. g. ; Exocoetus vinciguerrse, nom. nov.] 

 Knovilton. Frank II. List of plants collected by Mr. Charles L. McKay at Nushagak, 



Alaska, in 1881, for the United States National Museum 213-221 



Eawrence, <«eorse X. List of a few species of bird.s new to the fauna of Guadeloupe, 



We.st Indies, withftde.scription of a new species of Ceryle 621-625 



[Ceryle slietipenuUs,n.s.] 



liUeas, Frederic A. Circular No. .33. Notes on the preparation of rough skeletons 679-686 



mareoii, .lolin Belknap. A list of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic types in the collections 



of the United States National Museum 290-344 



Mason, Otis T. The Chaclacayo trephined skull [with Plate XXII] 410-412 



Merrill, iieorjife P. On hornblende andesites from the new volcano on Bogosloff Island 



in Bering Sea 31-33 



On deposits of volcanic dust and sand in Southwestern Nebraska [with 8 figures in 



text] 9»-100 



Notes on the mineralogy and lithology of the District of Columbia 351-353 



Orcutt, Charles R. (Comments by W. H. Dall.) Noteson the mollusks of the vicinity 



of San Diego, Cal., and Todos Santos Bay, Lower California. [With Plate XXIV] 534-552 



[Lfimeflaria diego'ensis, Dall, n. s., Ciecum orcutti, Dall, n. s.] 



Plates. (.See end of volume.) • 



Potts. K«]ward. Fresh-water sponges from Mexico. [With one cut] 587-589 



[Meye.nia plumosa, var. prdmeri, n. v.] 



Rathbun. Richard. Report upon the Echini collected by the United States Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, January to May, 

 1884 83-89 



Report upon the Echini collected by the United States Fish Commission steamer 



Albatross in theGulf of Mexico from .lanuary to March, 1885 606-620 



Notice of a collection of stalked crinoids made by the steamer Albatross in the Gulf 



of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, 1SS4 and 1885 62&-6,35 



Ridsway. Robert. On CEstrelata fisheri and CE. defilippiana 17-18 



Icterus oucuUatuH, Swainson, and its geographical variations 18-19 



Description of a new species of Contopus from tropical America 21 



[Confopiis pileatus, n. s.] 



Note on the An.ser leucopareins of Brandt 21-22 



Description of a new warbler from Yucatan 23 



[Grniialellus snllnri t>oiicordi\ n. subs.] 



Description of two new birds from Costa Rica 23-24 



[Cyannrorar ciicidlalus, n. s., vireolanius pulcJieUus verlienliii, n. subs.] 



Description of three supposed new Honey Creepers from the Lesser .\ntilles, with a 



synopsis of the species of the genus Certhiola ^ 2.5-30 



[C. finschi. C. sn7idcvaUi, C. sancti-thorme, nn. ss.] 



On Cathartes burrovianus, Cassin, and C. urubitinga, Pelzeln .34-.36 



. On Onychotesgruheri 36-38 



Remarkson the type specimen of Buteo oxypterus, CasBin 75-77 



I . Description of a new species of boat-billed ber.m from Central Amefica 93-^ 



[Ccf.'wrQma ^ftpdoni, n. s.] 



