viii CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

 BY DR. J. W. HUBBARD AND SANDERSON SMITH. 



Catalogue of the Mollusca of Stateu Island, N. Y 151 



BY PROFESSOR CHAS. A. JOY. 



Examination of a few American Minerals 120 



Examination of American Blendes for Thallium and Indium . . . 247 



BY ALEXIS A. JULIEN. 



On the Geology of the Key of Sombrero 251 



BY HENRY KREBS. 



Remarks on some Species of West Indian Marine Shells in the Cabinet of 



Amherst College, Mass. 394 



Catalogue of Marine Mollusks, collected in the Bahama Islands in Novem- 

 ber, 18G6 427 



BY GEORGE N. LAWRENCE. 



Catalogue of a Collection of Birds, made in New Granada, by James Mc 

 Leannan, Esq., of New York, with Notes and Descriptions of New 

 Species. Part IV 1 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Eamilies Tanagridae, Cccu- 



lidae, and Trochilidae, with a Note on Panterpe insignis . . 41 



Catalogue of Birds collected at the Island of Sombrero, W. I., with obser- 

 vations by A. A. Julien 92 



Descriptions of New Species of Birds of the Families Tanagridae, Den- 



drocolaptidae, Formicaridae, Tyrannidae, and Trochilidae . . 126 



List of Birds from near David, Chiriqui, New Granada, collected for the 

 Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Fred. Hicks, with descriptions of 

 New Species 174 



Catalogue of a Collection of Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, made by Mr. H. G. Holland at Greytown, Nicaragua, with 

 descriptions of New Species 178 



Catalogue of Birds observed in New York. Long and Staten Islands, and 



the adjacent parts of New Jersey ....... 279 



Characters of Seven New Species of Birds from Central and South 



America, with a Note on Tiiaumatias chionurus, Gould . . . 344 



Descrdptions of Six New Species of Birds of the Families Hirundinidae, 



Formicaridae, Tyrannidae, and Trochilidae 400 



Descriptions of New Species of American Birds 466 



Descriptions of New Species of Trocuilidae 483 



BY THE REV. A. MATTHEWS, M.A. 



Description of a New Genus of Trichopterygidae lately discovered in the 



United States 406 



BY PROFESSOR ORAN W. MORRIS. 



Summary of a Meteorological Register for the j'ear 1863, kept in the City 



of New York 46 



