414 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [1887. 



from the cases as above stated : Treron aromatiea (Java), Treron 

 aromatica (Ambunensis, Java), Chasmarhynchus variegatus (Brazil), 

 Pitta cceriUia (Java), Casstcws licamorrhous (S. Amer.), Alcojnis pieoi- 

 des (East Indies), Tardus sp. ? (ISTew Jersey), Thryothrus Imcinia, 

 Icterus Girardii (Guatemala), undet. (East Indies), and Spermestes 

 Poensis (Fernando Po). 



The Ornithological department has recevied valuable and exten- 

 sive accessions during the year, the more important being a collec- 

 tion of skins from the collection of Dr. H. B. Butcher, presented in 

 the name of J. Dickinson Sergeant, and a like collection presented 

 by Dr. W. L. Abbott of this city. The latter, consisting principally 

 of birds of the United States, the West India Islands, and South 

 and Central America, is estimated to number between two and three 

 thousand skins, mostly in a very good state of preservation. These, 

 for want of space-room, have not yet been definitely located, and it 

 is imperative that some immediate provision be made for their safe- 

 keeping. 



To the departments of Geology, Mineralogy and ' Paleontology 

 there have been a number of additions, in the main of no very great 

 importance, except in so far as pertains to the specimens purchased 

 by the Wm. S. Vaux fund. These are referred to in the report of 

 the special conservator, herewith appended. The extensive collec- 

 tions of Florida fossils and rocks, which were obtained in the early 

 part of last year, and which, for want of case room, had been, dur- 

 ing study, temporarily deposited in the room properly belonging to 

 Archaeology and Ethnology, are now in a condition to be jilaced in 

 their proper position, a number (10) of new cases having recently been 

 added to the main floor. By their addition the collection of ter- 

 tiary invertebrate fossils of the Academy becomes by far the most 

 important of any in the country, and falls probably but little below 

 that of any in the world. Valuable accessions to the 2-)aleontolog- 

 ical collections are an almost complete skull, leg bones, ribs, etc., of 

 a Mastodon, found near Pemberton, N. J., which were generously 

 donated to the institution by J. Coleman Saltar, of Pemberton, and 

 Emlen INIcConnell, of Philadelphia, two young students of geology 

 who first called attention to the interesting find. This is the most 

 perfect specimen of the animal that has been found in the State 

 during a period of some forty years. 



There have been but few additions to the department of Arch- 

 aeology, and attention is called to the report of the Professor of 



