570 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



F. W. Clarke. Administrative Report of the Division of Chemistry and Physics, 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



Sixth Annual Report TJ. S. Geological Survey, pp. 86-88. 

 F. W. Clarke and J. S. Diller. Turquoise from New Mexico. 

 Amer. Jour, of Science, xxxu, Sept., 1886, pp. 211-217. 

 The turquoise from Los Cerillos. 

 F. W. Clarke and others. A Report of the Work done in the Division of Chem- 

 istry and Physics, mainly during the fiscal year i884-'85. 



Bull. TJ. S. Oeologial Survey, 27, pp. 3-80 ; also in Sixth Annual Keport, pp. 535-610. 



F. W. Clarke. [Various abstracts of papers upon Atomic Weight, published in the 



Journal of Analytical Chemistry.] 

 F. W. Clarke. [Report on the] Department of Mineralogy [in the U. S. National 

 Museum, 1884]. 



Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884 (1886) II, pp. 221-225. 

 H. K. Coale. Geographical variations between Chondestes grammacm (Say) and 

 Chondestes grammacm strigatus (S wains.). 



Ridgway Ornith. Club, Bull. No. 2, 1887, pp. 24, 25. 



Points out the distinguishing characters of the two races, the demonstration being in part 

 baaed on specimens borrowed from the National Museum. 

 H. K. Coale. Description of a new species and subspecies of the genus Dendroica. 



Ridgway Ornith. Club, Bull. No. 2, 1887, pp. 82, 83. 



Based almost entirely on specimens in the National Museum, two of which are also the 

 type specimens of the two new forms described as D. cestiva worcomi and D. dugesi. 



J. W. Collins. Notes on an Investigation of the Great Fishing Banks of the 

 Western Atlantic. 



Bull. TJ. S. Fish. Com., VI, No. 24, Dec. 31, 1886, pp. 369-381. 



These notes relate to researches made during a cruise of the TJ. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross, from June 17 to July 16, 1885, with the object of investigating the fauna and fish- 

 ing grounds of the chain of great ocean banks between Cape Cod and Newfoundland. Many 

 references are made to the fishes and marine invertebrates taken in the trawls and dredges, 

 and by means of hooks and lines. These specimens are now in the National Museum. 



J. W. Collins. A curious Knife found in the Head of a Cod-fish. 



Bull. TJ. S. Fish Com., VI, No. 24, Dec. 31, 1886, pp. 381-383, 1 cut. 

 J. W. Collins. Notes on the Red-Snapper Fishery. 



BuK. TJ. S. Fish Com., VI, No. 19, Nov. 18, 1886, pp. 299, 300. 



J. W. Collins. Report of J. W. Collins [Report on the work of the United States 

 Fish Commission schooner Albatross for the year ending December 31, 1883, pp. 

 117-236. By Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, TJ. S. Navy, commanding]. 

 Report TJ. S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, part XI, for 1883 (1886), pp. 164-174. 

 J. W. Collins. Report on the Section of Naval Architecture in the TJ. S. National 

 Museum, 1884. 



Report Smithsonian Institution, 1884 (1886) II, pp. 85-106. 

 E. D. Cope. [Descriptions of new species of Mexican Reptiles, constituting part 

 in of Catalogue of animals collected by the Geographical and Exploring Commis- 

 sion of the Republic of Mexico. By Fernando Ferrari-Perez.] 

 Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., ix, Sept. 28, 1886, pp. 182-199. 

 Charles B. Cory. The Birds of the West Indies, including the Bahama Islands, the 

 Greater and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad. 

 (Continued.) 



The Auk, ill, 1886, pp. 337-381, pp. 454-472; IV, 1887, pp. 137-151, pp. 108-120. 

 In the preparation of this paper the author has been assisted by loan of specimens in the Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Charles B. Cory. Description of Thirteen New Species of Birds from the Island of 

 Grand Cayman, West Indies. 

 The Auk, III, 1886, pp. 497-501. 



The new species which were compared with material in the National Museum are named as 

 follows: Certhiola sharpei ,- Dendroica vitellina ; Chrysotis caymanensis ; Colaptes gundlachi ; 

 Engyptila collaris ; Zenaida spadicea ; Centurus caymanensis ; Mimocichla ravida ; Quis- 

 calus caymanensis ; Spindalis salvini ; Vireo alleni ,• Myiarchus denigratus ; Icterus bairdi 



