1895.] Zoology. 61 
lected has now been published.” No new species are described. The- 
notes on the poisonous character of Elaps fulvius are interesting. 
Brrps.—Menke catalogues’ the birds of Finney Co., Western Kan- 
sas. Three species are added to the fauna of the State: Carpodacus 
frontalis, Piranga ludoviciana and Hesperocichla nevia. 
Ridgway describes” Zosteropes aldabarensis, Z. gloriose, Cinnyris 
aldabarensis, C. abbotti, Centropus insularis and Caprimulgus aldaba- 
rensis, from Islands of the Malagassy region. In the same volume” 
he adds twenty-two new species to the Avian fauna of the Galapagos 
Islands. 
MammMats.—True describes” as new species of North American 
mammals, Sciurus aberti concolor, Scapanus dilatus, Myodes nigripes 
and Mictomys (n. g.)innuitus. Parascalops isa new genus proposed for 
Scalops breweri. The same author also describes” Sminthus flavus as 
new from Kashmir, and from North America” four new species of 
wood rats (Neotoma). 
17 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 317, 1894. 
18 Kansas Univ. Quarterly, iii, 127, 1894. 
19 Proc a S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 371, 1894. 
t, e p., 357. 
- bien U. S. Nat. Mus., xvii, 241, 1894. 
tom. cit., p. 341. 
tom, cit., p. 353. 
