PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON.

PUBLISHED WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

VOLUME II.

JULY 1, 1882, TO JULY 1, 1884.

WASHINGTON:
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1885.

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Officers and Council elected January, 1884

Standing Committees, 1884

List of Members, January 25, 1884

Additional List of Members, corrected to July 1, 1884.

Constitution

Proceedings, October 13, 1882, to May 31, 1884

Addresses and communications

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VIII

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XXV

XXVII

XXXI

I

The Principles of Zoogeography, Annual Address of the President, Theo-

dore Gill, January 19, 1883

1

Certain phases in the geological history of the North American Continent,

biologically considered, Annual Address of the President, Charles A.

White, January 25, 1884-

Notes on North American Psyllida, C. V. Riley (April 10, 1884 *)

Remarks on the bag-worm, Thyridopteryx ephemeraformis, C. V. Riley

(April 10, 1884)

List of plants added to the flora of Washington from April 1, 1882, to

April 1, 1884, Lester F. Ward (April 10, 1884) -

Description of a new genus and species of pediculate fishes (Halicutella

lappa), G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean ..--

84

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Descriptions of some new North American birds, R. Ridgway (April 10,
1884)--

Description of a new American kingfisher, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884)

Note on Psaltriparus grindæ Belding, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884)

Note on the generic name, Calodromas, R. Ridgway (April 10, 1884) --

Diagnoses of new species of birds from Kamtschatka and the Commander

Islands, Leonhard Stejneger (April 10, 1884)----.

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97

Diagnoses of three new species of fishes from the Gulf of Mexico, T. H.

Bean and H. G. Dresel (April 10, 1884).

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A review of the American cross-bills (Loxia) of the L. curvirostra type,
R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884)

ΙΟΙ

Note on the Anas hyperboreus Pall., and Anser albatus Cass., R. Ridg-

way (April 28, 1884)

107

Remarks on the type specimens of Muscicapa fulvifrons Giraud, and

Mitrephorus pallescens Coues, R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884)

Note regarding the earliest name for Carpodacus hæmorrhous (Wagler),
R. Ridgway (April 28, 1884)

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ΠΟ

On some Hydrocorallinæ from Alaska and California, W. H. Dall (April
28, 1884)

III

Some results by massage et contre-coup, W. S. Barnard

116

*Author's extras of each of the special papers here enumerated were published at
the dates given in parentheses following the author's name.