726 KEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



K. W. SnuFKLDT— Continued. 



TrochUi, and exposing tbo erroneous views still eutertainerl by some oruitbologists, that the 

 iinmming-hird can suck the sweets of flowers through a tubular tongue. The author presents 

 an account of his dissections of the lingual apparatus in these birds. Alcoholic specimens, as 

 well as fresh material, were utilized for the purpose ; the former, still in the author's posses- 

 sion, will become the iiroijerty of the U. S. National Museum. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Coutributioas to the Comparative Craniology of the Nortli Amer- 

 ican Indians. — The Skull in the Apaches. 



Journal of Anatomy and Physiology , London, xxi, n. s. I, Part iv. Art. 1, July, 1887, pp. 525- 

 535. Three test figures. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Wanton Destruction of the Florida Heronries. 



Science, X, No. 233, July 22, 1887, pp. 47, 48. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Whip-tailed Scorpion. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 1, July 28, 1887, p. 3. One text figure. 



Specimens of this insect were sent by the author as contributions to the entomological col- 

 lection of the U. S. National Museum, they having been obtained for him by collectors in New 

 Mexico and Arizona. In the paper about them a life-size figure is given, with a brief account 

 of their habits, the "Whip-tailed Scorpion being the Thelyphomis giganteus of arachnidists, a 

 large spider-like scorpion of the southern United States. 

 E. W, Shufeldt. The dermo-tensor patagii muscle. 



Science, X, No. 234, July 29, 1887, p. 57. Three text figures. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Gila Monster. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 2, August 24, 1 887, p. 24. One text figure. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Arrow Eelease among the Navajos. 



The American Naturalist, xxi. No. 8, August, 1887, pp. 784-786. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Pied Duck. 



Forest and Stream, xxix, No. 4, August 18, 1887, p. 64. One figure. 



A number of duck hunters at different times having written the author that Pied Ducks 

 (Camptolaimus labradorius) were occasionally seen on the Atlantic coast, this article was 

 written to draw attention to the matter, and to prevent specimen from being destroyed or not 

 properly utilized after shot. The mounted specimen of the duck in the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion was used to make the figure illustrating the paper. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. A Chapter on Pterylography. 



Forest and Stream, xxix,- No. 5, August 25, 1887, pp. 81, 83. Five text figures. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The American Badger and its Congeners. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 9, September 22, 1887, pp. 162-164. Three figures in text. 

 A review of the Badgers in different parts of the world, with a figure of T. americana from a 

 photograph. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. A Word about Opossums. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 11, October 6, 1887. pp, 203, 204. One text figure. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. Notes on Melanerpes f. hairdi in New Mexico. 



The AuJc, XV, No, 4, October, 1887, pp. 345, 346, 

 E. W. Shufeldt. A Eeview of the Muscles used in the Classification of Birds. 



Jour, of Coinp. Med. and Surg., viii, No 4, October, 1887, pp. 321-344. Thirteen text figures. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Armadilloes. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 12, October, 1887, pp, 222-224. One test figure. 

 This and former articles similar to it purport to illustrate through the columns of For- 

 est and Stream," the "Provisional List" of the Mammalia, published by the Curator of 

 Mammals in the TJ. S. National Museum, and are chiefly designed to give accurate accounts 

 of the United States mammals; to incite fuller studies of their habits and natural history on 

 the part of hunters and explorers; to show the necessity of the preservation of a number of 

 forms, as the buffalo, beaver, mountain goat, and elk, now rapidly beconiingextinct. Finally, 

 to induce hunters to save such material as far as possible, and to send rare skins and skele- 

 tons and alcoholics to museums and especially to the U, S. National Museui>i, where they 

 may be studied and made use of. 

 E. W. Shufeldt. The Manatees. 



Forest and Stream, xxix, No. 13, October 20, 1887, pp. 244, 245. Four text figures. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. Cetaceans of the United States. 



Forest and Stream, xxix. No. 14, October 27, 1887, pp. 203-265 Nine text figures. 

 R. W. Shufeldt. On a Collection of birds' Sterna and Skulls, collected by Dr. 

 Thomas fl. Streets, U. S. Navy. 



Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, pp. 376-387, Five text figures. 



"While Dr. Streets, of the Navy, was serving as surgeon and naturalist of the U. S. steamer 



