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9. Etudes sur V Instinct et les Moeurs cles Insects; by J.-H. 

 Fabre. Souvenirs Entomologiques, 9 e Serie, pp. 374. Paris. — 

 This ninth volume of the authors very interesting accounts of 

 the domestic life of insects describes in popular language some 

 of his extensive observations on the habits and instincts of sev- 

 eral species of spiders, a scorpion, gall insects, etc. w. r. c. 



10. The Rocky Mountain Goat ; by Madison Grant. Reprinted 

 from the 9th Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society. 

 New York, Office of the Society, 1905. 36 pp.— A well illus- 

 trated account of the systematic position, habits, and distribution 

 of this little-known game animal, which is not strictly a goat, 

 but the sole American representative of the Rupicaprinae, or 

 mountain antelopes. w. r. c. 



] 1. A Catalogue of North American Diptera (or two-winged 

 Flies) ; by J. M. Aldrich. G80 pp. Washington, 1905. Smith- 

 sonian Miscellaneous Collections, No. 1444, part of volume xlvi. 

 — The author states that this work is based upon the second 

 edition of Osten Sacken's Catalogue of North America Diptera, 

 published in 1878. It is by no means a reproduction of this, 

 however, for the twenty-five years that have passed since Sacken's 

 Catalogue have doubled the number of species and otherwise 

 brought many changes; the careful labors of the author, aided by 

 many gentlemen interested in the subject, have brought all this 

 material together into a valuable and homogeneous volume. 



12. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Lacca- 

 dive Archipelagoes ; by J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Yol. II, 

 Part IY, pp. 807-921, with plates lxvii-lxxxvii and text illustra- 

 tions 127-139. Cambridge, 1905 (The University Press). — This 

 continuation of the account of the collections made by the expe- 

 dition of 1899-1900, repeatedly noticed in this Journal, contains 

 the following reports : 1. The Alcyonaria of the Maldives, 

 Part III, by Sydney J. Hickson. 2. Marine Crustaceans, XIY, 

 Paguridae, by Major Alcock. 3. Hydroids, by L. A. Borradaile. 

 4. Notes on Parasites, by A. E. Shipley. 6. Marine Crustaceans, 

 XY, Les Alpheidae, by H. Coutiere. 



Supplement I, pp. 923-1040, with plates lxxxviii-c and text- 

 illustrations 140-153. This supplement contains the following 

 reports: 1. Marine Crustaceans, XYI, Amphipoda, by A. O. 

 Walker. 2. Madreporaria, III Fungida, IY Turbinolidse, by J. 

 Stanley Gardiner. 3. Scyphomedusae, by Edward T. Browne. 

 4. Coleoptera, by D. Sharp. 5. The Cephalopoda, by W. E. 

 Hoyle. 6. Notes in the Collection of Copepoda, by R. Norris 

 Wolfenden. 



13. The American Museum Journal. Published quarterly by 

 the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. — 

 The second number of volume v, "the Brontosaurus number," 

 contains an account of the mounted skeleton put on exhibition 

 in February, 1905. It also describes the two bird groups recently 

 completed in the museum, one of Flamingos, the other of the 

 summer bird-life of San Joaquin valley, California ; the former 

 is particularly striking and successful. 



