1294 
Minter, Gerrit §S., jr. Brief synopsis of 
the waterrats of Europe. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 
Mar. 23, 1910, pp. 19-22. 
Synopsis of European species of Arvi- 
cola, with description of a new form. 
Based on material in the British Mu- 
seum and the U.S. National Museum. 
Description of a new species of 
hippopotamus. 
Smithsonian Misc. Colls., 54, No. 
1927, Mar. 28, 1910, pp. 1-3, 
pls. 1-4. 
Describes Hippopotamus  constrictus 
from Angola. The type is in the U.S. 
National Museum. 
The generic name of the house- 
rats. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 
Apr. 19, 1910, pp. 57-60. 
Shows the generic distinctness of the 
house mouse from the rats, and raises the 
subgeneric name Epimys to generic value 
for the latter. 
Netson, E. W. The rabbits of North 
America. 
North Amer. Fauna, No. 29, Aug. 
31, 1909, pp. 1-314, pls. 1-13, 
figs. 1-19. 
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
Nexson, E. W.—Continued. 
A complete revision of the group, based 
upon the collections in the U. 8. National 
Museum; one new subspecies, Sylvilagus 
aquaticus littoralis, from Louisiana, is de- 
scribed. 
Osaoop, W. H. Biological investiga- 
tions in Alaska and Yukon Territory. 
North Amer. Fauna, No. 30, Oct. 
7, 1909, pp. 1-96, pls. I-V, figs. 
hoy 
Annotated list of mammals from the 
region, with description of a new sub- 
species in the Biological Survey collection. 
TRUE, FREDERICK W. Description of a 
skull and some vertebre of the fossil 
cetacean Diochotichus vanbenedeni 
from Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 28, 
Art. 4, Mar. 22, 1910, pp. 19-82, 
pls. 1-5. 
Describes and figures a nearly perfect 
skull of the fossil porpoise originally 
named Notocetus vanbenedeni by Moreno, 
and shows that it is a small species belong- 
ing to the family Squalodontide, but 
that it has single-rooted teeth. The 
characters of the vertebre are also given. 
The specimen belongs to the American 
Museum of Natural History. 
BIRDS. 
AMER. ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION Com- 
MITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. Fifteenth 
supplement to the American Orni- 
thologists’ Union check list of North 
American birds. 
Auk, 26, No. 3, July, 1909, pp. 
294-203. 
A list of the changes adopted since the 
publication ofthe fourteenth supplement 
of the check list, covering about sixty 
rulings of the committee. 
Banes, Outram. New or rare birds 
from western Colombia. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 23, 
May 4, 1910, pp. 71-76. 
Notes on fourteen forms, of which the 
following are described as new: Odonto- 
phorus baliolus (p. 71), Picumnus canus 
(p. 72), Xiphorhynchus rosenbergi (p. 72), 
Rhopoctites alogus (p. 72), Rhynchocyclus 
sulphurescens asemus (p. 73), Mionectes 
olivaceus hederaceus (p. 73), Pheugopedius 
spadix (p. 74), P. mystacalis saltuensis 
(p. 74), Henicorhina leucosticta eucharis 
(p. 74). 
CLrarK, Austin Hopart. The birds 
collected and observed during the cruise 
of the United States Fisheries steamer 
‘¢Albatross’’ in the North Pacific Ocean, 
Crark, Austin Hopart—Continued. 
and in the Bering, Okhotsk, Japan, and 
Eastern Seas, from April to December, 
1906. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 38, No. 
1727, April 30, 1910, pp. 25-74. 
An account of the birds noted or 
obtained by the author during the cruise 
of the Albatross in 1906. Extended notes 
are given under many species, of which 
179 are enumerated. 
Report on a collection of birds 
made by Pierre Louis Jouy in Korea. 
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 38, No. 
1735, May 9, 1910, pp. 147-176. 
Notes on 163 species, comprising the 
collection formed by the late P. L. Jouy. 
Cory, CuarLES B. The birds of the 
Leeward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 
Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Pub. 137, 
Ornith. Ser., I, No. 5, Oct. 25, 
1909, pp. 193-255, pl. 6. 
An account of the birds of the Leeward 
Islands, Caribbean Sea, with a tabular 
list of the species hitherto recorded from 
theregion. Icterus icterus harterti(p.201), 
Cereba lowii (p. 217), Dendreica ruficapilla 
obscura (p. 217), Conurus xruginosus tortu- 
gensis (p. 220), Tiaris tortugensis (p. 221), 
