590 KEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



Leonhard Stejnegek. Eeview of Japanese Birds. II. Tits and Nut-hatches. 

 Proc. XT. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 30, 1886, pp. 374-394. 



Treats of twelve species, of which one is described as new, viz, Sitta amurensis clara, while 

 two are new to the Japanese fauna. Memiza proposed as a new generic term instead of Mgi m 

 thalus, preoccupied. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Review of Japanese Birds. III. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Oct. 30, 1886, pp. 395-409. 

 Kine Japanese species are treated of, besides several other extra-limital species. 



Leonhard Stejneger. On the status of Synthliioramphus wumieusume as a North 

 American bird. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., rx, Nov. 26, 1886, pp. 524. 



Maintains that this species has no right to a place in the North American fauna. 



Leonhard Stejneger. On a collection of Birds made by Mr. M. Namiye, in the 

 Liu Kiu Islands, Japan, with description of new species. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., IX, 1886 (Feb. 11, 1887), pp. 634-651. 



This collection was made by Mr. M. Namiye, under the auspices of the Tokio Educational 

 Museum, Tokio, Japan, and forwarded to the National Museum. The new species described 

 are: Treron permagna, Hypsipetes pryeri, Icoturus namiyei, Chelidon namiyei, Pericrocotut 

 tegimce. Three other species are new to the Japanese fauna. A new genus, Icoturus, was 

 created for the reception of I. namiyei Stejn. and J. komadori (Temm.). 



Leonhard Stejneger. Review of Japanese Birds. IV. Synopsis of the genus 

 Turdus. 



Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, April 25, 1887, pp. 4, 5. 



Eight species, of which one is described as new, Turdus jouyi. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Birds of Kauai Island, Hawaiian Archipelago, collected by 

 Mr. Valdemar Knudsen, with descriptions of new species. 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, May 17, 1887, pp. 75-102, pi. vi, figs. 1 and 2. 



Enumerates twenty-one species, of which the following are described as new : Himantopus 

 knudseni, Chasiempis ridgwayi, Ch. dolei, Phceornis myadestina, Himatione parva, Oreomyza 

 bairdi. Oreomyza is characterized as a new genus. Moho braccata Cassin shown to be differ- 

 ent from M. nobilis. Several species added to the fauna of the archipelago. A synopsis of the 

 species of Chasiempis is given, as well as a " Key to the Genera of the Hawaiian Dicceidce." 



Leonhard Stejneger. Madarasz's " Zeitschrift fur Ornithologie." 



The Auk, HI, 1886, pp. 398-399. 



A review calling the attention of American ornithologists to this Journal. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Dr. Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Trochilidce Caprimul- 

 gidce, and Cypselidce. 



The Auk, ill, 1886, pp. 404-406. 



A review of a paper by Dr. Shufeldt in the Proceedings of the Zool. Soc. London, criticising 

 his conclusions in regard to the Swifts and Hummingbirds, maintaining that these two fami- 

 lies are closely related, and should be included in the same order. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Further Notes on the genus Acantlm. 

 The Auk, iv, 1887, pp. 30-35. 



Treats especially of the British Redpoll. The only Japanese species unquestionably identi- 

 fied is A. holbcelli. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Pleske on the Birds of the Kola Peninsula. 

 The Auk, iv, 1887, pp. 61-63. 



A review of the bird volume of Pleske's " Uebersicht der Saugethiere und Vogel derKola- 

 Halbinsel." St. Petersburg, 1886. 



Leonhard Stejneger. W. E. Brooks on the genus Acanthis. 



The Auk. IV, 1887, p. 63. 



A review of two papers by Brooks in " The Ibis," 1885 and 1886. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Supplementary Notes on the genus Acanthis. 

 The Auk, iv, 1887, pp. 144, 145. 



Notes on four specimens of A. cabaret, from Austria, submitted to the author for examina- 

 tion by Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. Classification of the Macrochires. 

 The Auk, iv, 1887, pp. 170, 171. 



Letter to the editors of " The Auk " in reply to a letter from Dr. Shufeldt commenting on 

 the writer's criticism of Dr. Shufeldt'e original paper. (See above.) 



