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1895. Merriam, C. Hart. Synopsis of the American Shrews of the Genus Sorex. 

 <N. Am. Fauna No. 10, pp. 57-98, Dec. 31, 1895. 

 Sorex uphagnicola recorded from Shamattawa River. 



1895. Southwell, Thomas. Notes on the Seal and Whale Fishery, 1894. <Zoolo- 



gist. Third Series, XIX, pp. 91-95. 



Note on white whales taken by whaling ship Balaena in Elwin Bay, 

 Prince Regent Inlet, during August, 1894. 



1896. Bangs, Outram. A Review of the Weasels of Eastern North America. <Proc. 



Biol. Soc, Wash., IX, pp. 1-24, February 25, 1896. 

 Putorius rixosus recorded from Moose Factory and Fort Albany. 



1896. Bangs, Outram. A Review of the Squirrels of Eastern North America. 

 <Proc. Biol. Soc, Wash., X, pp. 145-167, December 28, 1896. 

 Sciuropterus sabrinus recorded from Moose Factory. 



1896. Bendire, Charles. Life Histories of North American Birds from the Parrots 

 to the Gracklea, with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs, 

 with seven lithographic plates. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 

 Vol. XXXII, or Special Bulletin No. 3, TJ. S. National Museum. 4to, pp. 518. 

 Washington. 



This portion of the work, which, though dated 1895, did not appear until 

 1896, treats of various families of North American birds, and contains some 

 information concerning the ornithology of the Hudson Bay region not before 

 published. The following families are included: Psittacidse, Cuculidse, 

 Trogonidfe, Alcedinidse, Picidte, Caprimulgidse, Micropodidae, Trochilidee, 

 Cotingidse, Tyrannidse, Alaudidse, Corvidfe, Sturnidse, and Icteridse. 



1896.. Bishop, Louis B. Descriptions of a new Horned Lark and a new Song Spar- 

 row, with remarks on Sennett's Nighthawk. <Auk, XIII, pp. 129-185, 

 April, 1896. 



Mentions two specimens of Otocoris a. hoyti from Depot Island, Hudson 

 Strait (= Hudson Bay). 



1896. True, Frederick W. A revision of the American Moles. <Proc. IT. S. 



Nat. Mus., XIX, pp. 1-112. 



Condylura cristata recorded from Moose Factory, Ontario. 



1897. CouES, Elliott. A North American snipe new to the A. O. IT. List. <|Auk, 



XIV, p. 209, April, 1897. 



Attention called to a specimen of Gallinago major from Hudson Bay in the 

 British jMuseum. 



1897. CouES, Elliott. Status of Heloclromas ochropus in the A. 0. U. List. <Auk, 

 XIV, pp. 210-211, April, 1897. 

 Attention called to a specimen from Hudson Bay in the British Museum. 

 1897. CouES, Elliott. Status of the Redshank as a North American Bird. <Auk, 

 XIV, pp. 211-212, April, 1897. 



Attention called to a specimen of Totanus calidris said to be from Hud- 

 son Bay, described in Fauna Boreali-Americana. 

 1897, Miller, Gerrit Smith, jk. Revision of the North American Bats of the 

 Family Vespertilionidse. =N. Am. Fauna No. 13, October 16, 1897. 

 Myotis lucifugus recorded from James Bay. 

 1897. Tyrrell, J. Burr. Report on the Doobaunt, Kazan and Ferguson Rivers 

 and the North- West Coast of Hudson Bay and on two overland routes from 

 Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg. <Ann. Rept. Geol. Surv. Canada, IX 

 (new series), 1896, Part F. (1897.) 



Chiefly geographical and geological. Notes on fauna of the region, pp. 

 164F to 167F, and pasdm throughout the report. 



