DEPARTMENT REPORTS 63 



W. C. Stewart — Red-bellied woodpecker. 



C. H. VanAuken — Little black bat (TespertiUo gry pirns). 



George H. Warren, Flint — Two hundred birds' eggs, representing 85 

 species. 



L. Whitney Watkius, Manchester — Four specimens of chipping spar- 

 row, skins, immature. 



A. H. Whitehead, Lansing — Barnacles from sea tortoise (Florida). 



July 1, 1896, to June SO, 1897. 



W. B. Barrows — Sixteen specimens in alcohol of mammals, birds, rep- 

 tiles, and fish; 1 mole skull, 2 birds' skulls. 



Dr. W. J. Beal — Cast skin of snake; si^ecimen of red squirrel with 

 white tail. 



C. S. Brooks — Plymouth Rock fowl, for skeleton. 



O S. Burcham — American bittern (Botaurus). 



O. P. Chapin, Ribble, Mich. — Albino kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). 



Leon J. Cole and T. L. Hankinson — Massasauga (Sistrurus catennatus), 

 young Carolina grebe. 



B. L. Comstock, Eau Claire, Mich. — Part of lower jaw of mastodon, 

 with six molars, fragments of tusk, and a few pieces of other bones, ex- 

 humed at Eau Claire. (Purchased.) 



Prof. A. A. Crozier — Mexican "quirt." 



Edward A. Gilke}', Lansing — Eight-legged kitten. 



T. L. Hankinson — Short-tailed shrew, white-footed mouse, and Baird's 

 sandpiper. 



Richard Harrison — Mole (Scalops aquaticus). 



B. O. Longj'ear — Ten specimens of fossils and polished rocks; imper- 

 fect skeleton of very large snapping turtle (Chclydra serpentina) ; young 

 tortoise (Chrysemys) ; 2 young chimney swifts. 



W. A. Oldfield, Port Sanilac — Great northern diver or loon, and horned 

 grebe (Colymhus auritus). 



E. D. Sanderson — Fifteen skins of small mammals (exchange), set of 3 

 marsh hawk's eggs. 



Percy E. Selous, Greenville — Six specimens of mounted birds, viz.: 

 northern raven, hawk owl, marsh hawk, pair black-backed woodpeckers, 

 Canada goose. (Purchased.) 



R. H. Stocoum — Silk "cap" or web from Belding silk mill. 



Oscar B. Warren, Hibbing, Minn. — Collection of 46 bird skins, includ- 

 ing several rare species and two new to the State, all collected in Mar- 

 quette county, Mich. 



O. P. West — Red bat (AtalapJia novehoraccnsis). 



Prof. C. F. Wheeler — Large specimen of horse-shoe crab, from Atlantic 

 coast ; nest of paper wasp^ (Vespa maculata) ; very large larva of scaraboeid 

 beetle. 



Respectfully, 



WALTER B. BARROWS, 



Curator of General Museum. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., 

 June 30, 1897. 



