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Leonhard Stejneger. [Letter to the editors of " The Ibis."] 



The Ibis, 1886, pp. 381, 382. 



Maintaining that " to use the oldest available name in every case, where it can be proved, 

 and to spell it exactly as it was spelled when published for the first time," is the only rule of 

 zoological nomenclature which can be carried out with safety. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Description of a new species of Fruit-Pigeon (Janthoenas 

 jouyi) from the Liu Kiu Islands, Japan. 

 American Naturalist, 1887, pp. 583, 584. 



Based upon a specimen submitted to the author for examination by the authorities of the 

 Tokio Educational Museum: 



Leonhard Stejneger. On Brachyramphus perdix (Pall.) and its nearest allies 

 (plate vii). ' 



Zeitschr. Ges. Ornith., iii, 1886, pp. 210-219. One plate. 

 Shows that B. perdix should be separated from B. marmoratus. 



Leonhard Stejneger. Lundefuglene det Stille Hav. 

 Naturen, 1887, pp. 33-38. 

 An account of the Puffins and Anklets of the Northern Pacific Ocean. 



Leonhard Stejneger. On the extermination of the Great Northern Sea-Cow 

 {Rytina), a reply to Prof. A. E. Nordenskiold. 



Bulletin Amer. Geograph. Soc, 1886, No. 4, pp. 317-328. 



Disproves Nordenskiold's allegation that living Rytinas have been seen since 1768, the yeas 

 given by Sauer as the year of extinction of the Great Northern Sea-Cow. 



Z. L. Tanner. Report on the work of the United States Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross for the year ending December 31, 1883. By Lieut. Commander Z. L. 

 Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding. 



Eeport TJ. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, part XI, for 1883-1886, pp. 117-236, 1885. 

 Gives a narrative of the several cruises made during the year, and includes the following 

 special reports: Eeport of the naturalist, Mr. James E. Benedict, pp. 175-177; Report of En- 

 sign R. H. Miner, TJ. S. Navy, Department of Fishes, pp. 178-203 ; Dredging and Trawling 

 Record, Stations 2001-2116, pp. 219-221. 



Z. L. Tanner. Eeport on the work of the United States Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross for the year ending December 31, 1884. By Lieut. Commander Z. L. 

 Tanner, U. S. Navy, commanding. 



Report TJ. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, part xn, for 1884-1886, pp. 1-116, plates 1-3. 



A narrative of the cruises during the year, with the report of the naturalist, Mr. James E. 

 Benedict (pp. 86-103), and the records of the dredging and trawling stations, 2117-2310 (pp. 

 106-110). 



Z. L. Tanner. Record of hydrographic soundings and dredging stations occupied 

 by the steamer Albatross in 1886. By Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. 

 Navy, commanding. 



Bull. TJ. S.Fish Com., VI, 1886, pp. 277-285. 



A list of the localities (Stations 2629-2735) from which specimens, now in'the collection of 

 the National Museum, were obtained. The following data are given with respect to each 

 locality: Serial number, date, position, temperature, depth, character of bottom, apparatus 

 . used, etc. 



George L. Toppan. A Contribution to our Knowledge of Albinism. 

 Ridgway Ornith. Club, Bull. No. 2, 1887, pp. 61-77. 



The author enumerates one hundred and fifty- four North American species which have been 

 found in albinistic plumage, making special reference to twenty-eight species in the National 

 Museum examined by him. 



Charles H. Townsend. List of the Midsummer Birds of the Kowak River, north- 

 ern Alaska. 



The Auk, iv, 1887, pp. 11-13. 



Enumerates fifty -two species. The specimens collected are in the collection of the National 

 Museum. 



Frederick "W. True. Report on the Department of Mammals in the U. S. National 

 Museum, 1884. 



Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884 (1886) n, pp. 129-142. 



