  We have identified eighty-four small, high density groups of galaxies out to
z ~ 0.2 in a region of ~ 2000 square degrees around the north galactic pole
using DPOSS (the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey). The groups
have at least four galaxies satisfying more stringent criteria than those used
by Hickson in his pioneering work in 1982: the adopted limiting surface
brightness for each group is brighter (24 mag/arcsec^2 instead of 26
mag/arcsec^2), and the spread in magnitude among the member galaxies is
narrower (two magnitudes instead of three). We also adopt a slightly modified
version of the isolation criterion used by Hickson, in order to avoid rejecting
groups with projected nearby faint background galaxies. A 10% contamination
rate due to projection effects is expected for this sample based on extensive
simulations.
