NOTE ON THE GENERIC NAME CALODROMAS. BY ROBERT RIDGWAY. (Read February 23, 1884) In 1873 ("Nomenclator Avium Neotropicalium," p. 156), Messrs. Sclater and Salvin proposed the name Calodromas for Eudromia elegans, Lafr. & D'Orb. This name, however, is preoccupied, having been given to a 1832 (Rev. et Mag. de Zool.) I therefore propose as a substitute Calopezus (zahús = pulcher, neĻós = pedestris.) genus of Coleoptera by Goudot, in DIAGNOSES OF NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM KAMTSCHATKA AND THE COMMANDER ISLANDS. BY LEONHARD STEJNEGER. Read February 23, 1884, and published by permission of the Director of the U. S. National Museum. 1. Pica camtschatica, new species. DIAGNOSIS.-Larger than P. caudata and with longer bill; inner webs of the longest primaries white to the extreme tip; feathers of the throat black to the base. Total length, 525 mm.; wing, 218 mm.; tail f., 279 mm.; expos. culmen, 35 mm. HAB. Kamtschatka. TYPES.-NOS. 89,144; 92,695, and 92,698, U. S. Nat. Mus. 2. Corvus grebnitskii, new species. DIAGNOSIS.-Nearly allied to Corvus corax, from which it differs in having the fourth and fifth primaries longest, and the latter decidedly longer than the second. Total length, 715 mm.; wing, 460 mm.; tail f., 255 mm. ?: Total length. 660 mm.; wing, 426 mm.; tail f., 235 mm. HAB.-Commander Islands, Bering Sea. TYPES.-NOS. 92,759 and 92,760, U. S. Nat. Mus. 3. Alauda blakistoni, new species. DIAGNOSIS.-Like Alauda japonica in the rusty tinge and the dark blackish brown scapulars and interscapulars, but differing in being larger and having a stronger and larger bill. The hind neck rusty colored, only dotted with small dark spots, forming a light collar between the strongly marked pileum and the dark color of the upper back. Total length, 187 mm.; wing, 116 mm.; tail f., 72 mm.; exp. culm., 13 mm. Total length, 186 mm.; wing, 109 mm.; tail f., 70 mm.; exp. culm., 12 mm. HAB.-Kamtschatka and Bering Island. TYPES.-NOS. 92,658 and 92,660, U. S. Nat. Mus. 4. Dendrocopos immaculatus, new species. DIAGNOSIS. Similar to D. pipra, but with unspotted white under tail-coverts, and the outer rectrices pure white, without dark crossbars, or only with trace of a single bar; white bars on the wing broader; malar stripe narrow, broken, dusky, but not black. : Total length, 167 mm.; wing, 97 mm.; tail f., 61 mm.; exp. culm., 18 mm. HAB.-Kamtschatka. TYPE.-No. 92,700, U. S. Nat. Mus. REMARKS. This is Picus kamtschatkensis of TACZANOWSKI (1882), but not of BONAPARTE (1854), whose type specimen came from Okotsk, and not from Kamtschatka BONAPARTE's bird is, in every respect, a typical D. pipra and the name P. kamtschatkensis consequently an unconditional synonym of the Siberian form. 5. Lagopus ridgwayi, new species. DIAGNOSIS:, in summer-plumage, above brownish black with dark ferruginous brown cross-bars and mottlings, but without any trace of white, whitish, and grayish edgings or barrings; first summer-plumage with blackish jugulum as in L. muta; bill longer and stouter than in the latter form; abdomen blackish in the per fect summer-plumage. : Total length, 382-411; wing, 187-201; tail f., 102-112; bill from nostr., 10-12 mm. ??: Total length, 357-384; wing, 179-189; tail f., 89-110; bill from nostr., 9.3-10.5 mm. HAB.-Commander Islands. TYPES.-U. S. Nat. Mus., Nos. 89,059; 89,062; 92,716; 92,709; 89,057; 92,712. DIAGNOSES OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF FISHES FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. BY TARLETON H. BEAN, M. D., and H. G. DRESEL, Ensign, U. S. N. Read February 23, 1884, and published by permission of the Director of the U. S. National Museum. The writers are preparing descriptions of all the fishes of the Gulf of Mexico represented in the collections of the United States National Museum, to form a bulletin of the Museum. As considerable time must elapse before the material can be ready for the press, they present here brief diagnoses of some of the new species in advance of the complete publication. Siphostoma crinigerum, new species. The types of this species are two males, No. 33,173, taken at Pensacola, by Jordan and Stearns. The species is closely related to S. crinitus (Jenyns), a species inhabiting the coast of Northern Patagonia. The snout is very short, less than 3 length of head. Eye, 5 times in length of head. Head nearly 11 times in total length to caudal base. Height of body, half length of head. Length of marsupium is 4 times in the total to caudal base. 17 rays. Body rings 15; caudal rings 38 cr 39. Dorsal of 16 or Dorsal fin above the first 32 to 4 caudal rings. The marsupium occupies 17 caudal rings. Minute filaments above the eyes, and apparently along the sides of the body. Phycis floridanus, new species. The type of the species is No. 32,762, taken by Silas Stearns at Pensacola. It is about 74 inches long. In general appearance it resembles P. regius, differing from this in its smaller scales, and more numerous dorsal rays. The greatest height is one-fifth of the total length to caudal base, and equals four-fifths of the length of head. Head 4 times in length to caudal base. Eye slightly less than snout, 5 times in length of head. mandible, one-half length of head. Ventral about five-fourths length of head. Maxilla slightly less than First dorsal not produced. Pectoral equal to head in length. Dorsal XIII, 57; Anal 49. Scales between first dorsal and lateral line in nine or ten rows; about 120 scales in the lateral line. Ophichthys guttifer, new species. The type of the species numbered 32,647 in the National Museum register is 221⁄2 inches in length. It resembles O. ocellatus (Le Sueur) very closely, but the differences from that species are so important that we cannot consider them sexual. The greatest height of body equals the distance from the angle of the mouth to the tip of the snout. The dorsal fin begins at a distance behind the vertical from tip of pectoral equal to length of the snout. The length of the pectoral is nearly 31⁄2 times in length of the head. The head is % of the total length, 3% of the trunk. Eye 11⁄2 times in length of snout, 9 times in that of head. Twenty-one or twenty-two small white spots along the median line. A REVIEW OF THE AMERICAN CROSSBILLS (LOXIA) OF THE L. CURVIROSTRA TYPE. By ROBERT Ridgway. Read March 8, 1884, and published by permission of the Director of the U. S. Having long suspected the existence of two forms of the Red Crossbill in the United States, besides the Mexican race (L. mexicana Strickl.) which occurs just within our borders in Southern Arizona (and perhaps also in New Mexico), I was not surprised to find this conviction fully confirmed by a fine series of specimens presented to the National Museum by Captain Chas. E. Bendire, U. S. A., and obtained by him at Fort Klamath, Oregon, during the winter of 1882-83. The form under consideration being unquestionably distinct from both Ľ. americana and L. mexicana, as well as from the several Palearctic races, and being, so far as I am able to discover, unnamed, I take great pleasure in dedicating it to Captain Bendire as a slight recognition of his very valuable services to North American ornithology. I am at present inclined to consider all the Red Crossbills that I have seen, from whatever country, as races of Loxia curvirostra Linn.; and therefore must prefer for the bird under consideration a trinomial designation, as follows: Loxia curvirostra bendirei. BENDIRE'S CROSSBILL. Loxia americana (part) BAIRD, B. N. Am., 1858, 426. Cur irostra americana (part) COOPER, Orn. Cal., i, 1870, 148. Lexia curvirostra var. americana HENSH., Rep. Orn. Wheeler's Exp. 1873 (1874), 79 (Ft. Garland, Colorado).—(?) BENDIRE, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 116 (Camp Harney, Oregon, in winter). Loxia curvirostra var. mexicana RIDGW., Bull. Essex Inst., v, Nov., 1873, 181, 189 (Colorado). Loxia curvirostra mexicana MINOT, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 229 (Colo rado). Loxia curvirostra bendirei RIDGW., MS. ΙΟΙ |