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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Penard, Thomas E. (See under Out- 

 ram Bangs.) 

 Peters, James L. Birds from the 

 northern coast of the Dominican Re- 

 public. 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zobl., 



61, No. 11, Oct., 



1917, pp. 391-426. 



Notes on 92 species collected 



and observed by the author. 



Richmond, Chas. W. The Cape May 

 warbler at Washington, D. C, in 



winter. 



Auk, 34, No. 3, July, 

 1917, p. 343. 

 Notice of the occurrence of 

 this species at Washington in 

 December. 



Descriptions of two new birds 



from Haiti. 



Smithsonian Misc. 



Colls., 68, No. 7, 



July 12, 1917, pp. 



1-3. 



Describes a new potoo and a 



new vireo. 



Generic names applied to birds 



during the years 1906 to 1915, in- 

 clusive, with additions and correc- 

 tions to Waterhouse's " Index Gen- 

 erum Avium." 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 53, No. 2221, Aug. 

 16 (=25), 1917, 

 pp. 565-636. 

 Alphabetical list of about 600 

 names, with a statement of the 

 place of publication, family po- 

 sition, and type species of each. 

 Several pages are devoted to 

 corrections of Waterhouse's 

 work and to the two earlier sup- 

 plements of the present writer. 

 Two new generic names are in- 

 troduced. 

 In memoriam : Edgar Alexander 



Mearns. 



Auk, 35, No. 1, Jan., 

 1918, pp. 1-18, pi. 1. 



Riley, J. H. A new bullfinch from 

 China. 



Proc. Biol. 8oc. Wash*- 

 ington, 31, May 16, 

 1918, pp. 33, 34. 

 Describes a new subspecies 

 from north China. 



Shttfeldt, R. W. Mounted bird-ex- 

 hibits of the United States National 

 Museum at Washington. 



Avicultural Mag., Ser. 

 3, 9, No. 6, Apr., 

 1918, pp. 190-192, 

 lpl. 



Swales, B. H. Northern phalarope 

 (Lobipes lobatus) in Michigan. 



Auk, 35, No. 1, Jan., 

 1918, p. 75. 

 Note on the earliest record for 

 this species in Michigan. 



Swarth, Harry S. A revision of the 

 marsh wrens of California. 



Auk, 34, No. 3, July, 



1917, pp. 308-318, 



1 fig. 



Three subspecies are accepted, 



of which one is described as 



new. 



Todd, W. E. Clyde. New genera, spe- 

 cies, and subspecies of South Ameri- 

 can birds. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 30, July 27, 



1917, pp. 127-130. 

 Describes a new genus of 



sparrows and another of oven- 

 birds, and 10 species of various 

 groups from Colombia and Vene- 

 zuela. 



Wetmore, Alexander. Description of 

 a new subspecies of the little yellow 

 bittern from the Philippine Islands. 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, 31, June 29, 



1918, pp. 83, 84. 

 Describes Ixohrychus sinensis 



astrologus from the island of 

 Luzon. 



REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS. 



Barbour, Thomas. (See under Leon- 

 hard Stejneger.) 



Camp, Charles Lewis. (See under 

 Joseph Grinned. ) 



Gary, Merritt. Life zone investiga- 

 tions in Wyoming. 



Cary, Merritt — Continued. 



North Amer. Fauna, 

 No. 42, Oct. 3, 1917, 

 pp. 1-95, pis. 1-15, 

 figs. 1-17, map. 

 Lists of reptiles and am- 

 phibians on pages 16, 19, 24, 27, 



