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John B. Smith. Notes on Apion, with description of a new species. 



Entomologica Americana, ill, June, 1 887, p. 56. 



Describes as new Apion lividum from District of Columbia. Notices a secondary sexual 

 character of one gronp, and corrects the synonomy of four species. 



John B. Smith. Williston's synopsis of the North American Syrphidce. 

 Entomologica Americana, in, June, 1887, p. 59. 

 Appreciative notice of the paper above mentioned. 



John B. Smith. Interesting entomological literature. 

 Entomologica Americana, in, June, 1887, p. 60. 



Calls attention to a fierce personal controversy in Ent. Nachrichten between Drs. Kraatz 

 and Kolbe. 



Rosa Smith. On the occurrence of a new species of Rhinoptera (R. encenadw) in Todos 

 Santos Bay, Lower California. 



Proc. 77. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 11, 1886, p. 220. 



Robert E. C. Stearns. The death of Dr. Albert Kellogg. 

 Science, IX, No. 220, April 22, 1887, p. 391. 



Robert E. C. Stearns. The death of William Ashburner. 



Science, IX, No. 223, May 13, 1887, p. 462. 



Robert E. C. Stearns. Araujia albens as a moth-trap. 



American Naturalist, xxi, No. 8, June, 1887, pp. 501-507. 



Describes the mechanism by which the plant entraps moths, and gives a list of species taken. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Notes on the northern palsearctic Bullfinches. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, pp. 103-110. 



Shows that Pyrrhula cassini Baird as the older name must take precedence over P. cineracea 

 Cabanis; also that P. rosacea Seebohm is identical with P. griseiventris Lafr. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Contributions to the natural history of the Commander 

 Islands, No. 7. Revised and annotated catalogue of the birds inhabiting the 

 Commander Islands. (With three plates.) 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, pp. 117-145, pis. vii, viii, ix. 



Enumerated one hundred and forty -three species. A Flycatcher from Bering Island named 

 conditionally Butalis pallescens. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Review of Japanese Birds. I. The Woodpeckers. (With 

 a colored plate.) 



Proc. 77". S. Nat. Mus., IX, Sept. 2, 1886, pp. 99-124, pi. ii. 



The first of a series of articles forming a kind of "Prodromus" of a contemplated larger 

 work on the birds of Japan. The present part of the "review " treats of twelve species and 

 subspecies of woodpeckers, three of which are described as new, viz, Picus canus jessoensis, 

 Dryobates subcirris, and D. namiyei, the latter being figured on the plate. 



Leonhard Stejneger. The British Marsh-tit. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Sept. 28, 1886, pp. 200, 201. 

 Described as a new stibspecies, Parus palustris dresseri Stejn. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Notes on the species of the Australian genus Pardalotus. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 19, 1886, pp. 294-296. 



Maintains that P. a.isimilis belongs to P. affinis as a subspecies, and not to P. ornatus. A 

 '"Key to the Species" is given, as well as a catalogue of the species, contained in the National 

 Museum. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Description of Eailus jouyi, with remarks on Rallus striatus 

 and Rallus gularis. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 30, 1886, pp. 362-364. 



The former described as a new species ; the other two shown to be distinct. 



Leonhard Stejneger. On Turdus alpestris and Turdus torquatus, two distinct species 

 of European Thrushes. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 30, 1886, pp. 365-373. 



Proves conclusively that T. alpestris is a distinct species inhabiting the mountains of south- 

 ern Europe; in fact "that there exist two distinct species of ring-thrushes in Europe, not- 

 withstanding the fact that hardly a single European ornithologist of the present generation 

 even dreams of it." 



