Oct. 1896. Annual Report of the Director. 127 



DIVISION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 



COALE, H. K., Chicago. 



( >ld piano, (transferred from Department of Anthropology |. 



JAVA CHICAGO EXPOSITION SYNDICATE. 



Musical instruments, (transferred from Department of Anthropology). 

 LINDSAY, E. D., Chicago. 



Calderarpa or harp piano, (transferred from Department of Industrial 

 Arts). 

 LYON" & HEALY, Chicago. 



11 musical instruments, (transferred from Department of Anthropology). 

 MEYER & SON, C, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Iron plate piano, (transferred from Department of Anthropology). 

 WESSELL, NICKEL & GROSS, New York. 



Piano movements, (transferred from Department of Anthropology). 

 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, Department of Ethnology. 



27 musical instruments, (transferred from Department of Anthropology). 



DEPARTMENT OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



(Accessions are p,y gift unless otherwise designated.) 



AKELEY, C. E., Field Columbian Museum. 



1 mounted Ardetta ncoxena Cory. 



AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New York. 



9 bird skins — Brazil, Mexico, Yucatan, Guiana, (for examination). 



BRANDLER, CHAS., Field Columbian Museum. 



2 birds: Syrnium nebulisum and Asio wilsonianus. 



1 mounted bird: Accipiter cooperi — Milwaukee, Wis. 

 CHRISTENSEN, L. A., Baldwin, Wis. 



1 bird's nest made of twine. 



CORY, C. B., Boston, Mass. 



23 bird skins and 1 nest — Florida. 



FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 



Collected by Geo. K. Cherrie: 



2 mounted birds: Symphemia semipalmata and Calidris arena via — 



Indiana. 

 38 bird skins — Du Page Co., 111. 

 121 bird skins, 37 species — Mississippi. 

 229 bird skins — Louisiana. 

 609 bird skins, 96 species — Texas. 



Nest and 4 eggs of Tyrannus tyrannies — Wolf Lake, 111. 

 20 bird skins, 12 species — Wolf Lake and South Chicago, 111. 

 32 mounted birds, 20 species — Jackson Park, Hegewisch and Worth, 111. 



14 bird skins, 8 species— Wolf Lake, 111. 



15 bird skins — Worth and Glen Ellyn, 111. 

 36 mounted birds — Illinois. 



22 bird skins, 15 species — Indiana and Illinois. 

 Collected by I. N. Travis: 



7 birds: Laurus argentatus smithsonianus — Chicago. 

 Nest and 4 eggs of Poocaetes grammineus — Whiting, Ind. 

 25 mounted birds, 18 species— Whiting, Ind. 



7 mounted birds — Indiana. 



1 mounted bird: Stri.x pratincola — Chicago. 

 Purchases: 



8 birds — Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, (purchased from Lepmann & Heggie, 



Chicago). 

 1 mounted lynx for bird group, (purchased from W. W. Hart & Co., New 

 York). 



