BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. 725 



Henry Seebohm. — Coutiuucd. 



XXX, 524 pp., 4to. Twenty-oue coloied plates, and miinei-ous wood-cuts in tlie text. 

 Tor the preparation of this great monograph Mr. Seebohm borrowed quite a number of rare 

 species from the U. S. JSTational Museum. Plate xvii is drawn from a specimen belonging to 

 the Museum. 

 George B. Sennett. Notes on the Peucwa ruficeps Group, with Description of a New 

 Subspecies. 



The Auk, v, pp. 40-42. 



Described as a new suhspecies, Peuccea ruficeps gcottii. Compared with material in the U. S. 

 K"ational Museum. 

 George B. Sennett. Description of a New Species and Two New Subspecies of 

 Birds from Texas. 



The Auk, v, pp. 43-46. 



Psaltriparus lloydi described as a new species, and Nyctidromus albicoUis 7nerrilli and Pants 

 carolinensis agilis as new subspecies. Compared with material in the U. S. National Museum . 

 George B. Sennett. Dichromatism in the Genus Nyctidromus. 

 The Auk, V, pp. 205, 206. 



Based in part on specimens in the U. S. National Museum. 

 George B. Sennett. A New Form of Clapper Rail. 

 The Auk, v, pp. 305-306. 



Described as a new subspecies, Rallus longirostrig scottii. Compared with specimens in the 

 U. S. National Museum. 

 George B. Sennett, An addition to the list of N. A. Birds. 



The Auk, v, p. 319. 



Itall'us longirostris caribceus recorded as new to the North American fauna. Compared with 

 specimens in the U. S. National Museum. 

 R. BOWDLER Sharpe. Catalogue | of the | Passeriformes, | or | Perching Birds, | in 

 the I Collection | of the | British Museum. | — | Fringilliformes : Part m. | Con- 

 taining the Family | Fringillidae. | By [ R. Bowdler Sharpe. | London: | Printed 

 by Order of the Trustees. | 1888. 



XV, 872 pp., 8vo. Sixteen colored plates. 



A full monograph of the family of Finches, during the preparation of which the author 

 borrowed material from the collection of the U. S. National Museum. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Something about Jack-Rabbits. 



The Stviss Cross, ii, No. 1, July, 1887, pp. 17-19. One figure in text. 



A popular account of the author's hunting Lepus callotis in New Mexico and elsewhere, 

 giving some of the habits of the animal, and a full-page figure of a "Jack Rabbit" copied from 

 a photograph. The specimens ujion which the paper is based are now in the collection of the 

 Department of Mammals in the XT. S. National Museum. 



E. W. Shufeldt. Observations upon the Habits of Mioropus melanoleuctis, with 

 Critical Notes on its Plumage and External Character,". 

 The Ibis, London, April, 1887, pp. 151-158. One colored plate. 



This paper is chiefl.y descriptive of collecting the White-throated Swift in New Mexico, with 

 observations upon its habits, etc. In writing the article the author was assisted by material 

 kindly loaned him by Mr. Robert Eidgway from the ornithological collection of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Upon some of the specimens taken by Dr. Shufeldt in New Mexico he 

 found a large and new species of parasite, which was subsequently described in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society of London. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. A Critical Comparison of a Series of Skulls of the Wild and Do- 

 mesticated Turkeys (M. g. mexieana and M. g. domestica). 



Jour. Gomp. Med. and Surg., vni. No. 3, Art. xx, July, 1887, pp. 207-222. Seven text figures. 

 In this contribution the very striking differences between the typical skulls of wild turkeys 

 and domesticated ones are pointed out in detail, and shown in a series of life-size figures. Sev- 

 eral notable papers by Mr. Eidgway, of the National Museum, on Metengris were used by the 

 author in his work ; and the material upon which it is based will eventually be turned in to 

 the Smithsonian collection. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Geococcyx califormanus. A correction. 



The Auk, IV, No. 3, July, 1887, pp. 254, 255. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Individual Variation in the Skeletons of Birds, and other matters. 



The Auk, iv, No. 3, July, 1887, pp. 265-268. Two text figures. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. On the Tongue in the Humming-bird. 



Forest and Stream xxvin. No. 25, July 14, 1887, p 351. Three text figures. 



An illustrated article supporting M:icGillivray's views of the structure of tlio tojigue in the 



