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OF THE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY.
Volume IV, 1892.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
Complete in One Number).
Title-page
Committee of Publication
Contents ..
List of Illustrations.....
Dates of Publication of Author's Separates..
ART. I.-A Preliminary Study of the Grackles of the Subgenus Quiscalus.
By FRANK M. CHAPMAN. (Plate I)..
AII-The North American Species of the Genus Colaptes, considered
with Special Reference to the Relationships of C. auratus and
C. cafer. By J. A. ALLEN. (Plate II)...........
i.
ii.
iii.
V.
vi.
PAGE
I
21
III.-Description of a New Species of Perognathus from Southeastern
Texas. By J. A. ALLEN. (Plate III)....
45
IV.-On a Small Collection of Mammals from the Galapagos Islands,
collected by Dr. G. Baur. By J. A. ALLEN
47
V.-Notice of some Venezuelan Birds, collected by Mrs. H. H.
Smith. By J. A. ALLEN..
51
VI.-Description of a New Gallinule, from Gough Island. By J. A.
ALLEN..
57
VII-List of Types of some Species of Lepidoptera, described by
Grote and Robinson, in the American Museum of Natural
History. By WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER..
VIII.-On the Earlier Stages of some Species of North American Moths.
By WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER.....
IX.--Some Notes on Transformations of Australian Lepidoptera,
made by the late Henry Edwards, with Notes and Additions.
By WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER..
59
65
71
ART. X.-Notes on the Transformations of some Species of Lepidoptera.
By HENRY EDWARDS and S. LOWELL ELLIOTT. Edited,
with additions, by WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER
XI.-Fossil Mammals of the Wahsatch and Wind River Beds. Col-
lection of 1891. By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN and J. L.
WORTMAN
75
81
XII.-Revision of the Species of Coryphodon. By CHARLES EARLE. 149
XIII.-List of Types of Lepidoptera in the Edwards Collection of
Insects. By WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER...
167
XIV.-The Geographical Distribution of North American Mammals.
By JOEL ASAPH ALLEN. (Plates V-VIII).....
XV. Catalogue of Gall-producing Insects found within Fifty Miles of
New York City, with Description of their Galls, and of some
New Species. By WILLIAM BEUTENMÜLLER. (Plates IX-
XVI).....
XVI. --Notes on Birds and Mammals observed near Trinidad, Cuba,
with Remarks on the Origin of West Indian Bird-life. By
FRANK M. CHAPMAN..
XVII. On a Collection of Birds from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil,
made by Mr. H. H. Smith. Part II.-Tyrannidæ. By JOEL
ASAPH ALLEN.
199
245
279
331
XVIII.—Characters of Protoceras (Marsh), the New Artiodactyl from the
Lower Miocene. By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN and J. L.
WORTMAN......
351
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Cuts.
Diagram of the tuberculo-sectorial stage of Mammalian molars..
The primary cusps of an Ungulate (Perissodactyl-Artiodactyl) molar........
The secondary cusps of an Ungulate molar....
Left lower jaw of Patriofelis ulta.
Series of types showing the evolution of the sectorial molar.
86
89
97
99
Lower jaw and crown view of teeth of Anaptomorphus homunculus..
The homologies of molar cusps in Felida
103
106
Lower jaw and crown view of upper molars of Anacodon ursidens
116
Comparative view of second and third upper molars of Coryphodon.
159
Plate I.-Map showing the distribution and areas of intergradation of Quiscalus
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@neus and Q. quiscula.
II.-Map showing the distribution of the North American forms of
Colaptes and areas of intergradation between C. auratus and C.
cafer.
"III.-Skulls of Perognathus merriami and P. flavus.
IV.-Skull and dentition of Palæonictis occidentalis.
Plates V-VIII.-Maps showing life areas of North America. IX-XVI. Illustrations of Insect-galls.