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Donors' Names. 



Mr. W. Hunter. 



Mrs. H. Parkinson, 



Donations. 



A. Ramsay, Fsq 



Jas. Ferrier, jun., Esq.. 

 Mr. W. Hunter 



April 25th, 1864. 

 Fine example of the woodchuck or ground- 



hog, {Arctomys 



monuXj Gmelin,) from 



Mrs. McCulloch... 



E. E. Shelton, Esq, 

 Jas. Claxton, Esq. 



Brockville, C. VV 

 The downy woodpecker. (Picus picbescens, 



Linnaeus.) 

 A small collection of marine shells, bryozoa, 



aunelida, and sea-weeds, from Little Metis 



Bay, Gaspe. 



May 30th, 1864. 



The snow-goose. {Anser hyperboreus, Pallas,) 

 shot at Nun's Island. 



The turnstone. (Strepsilas interpr?s, Hliger.) 



Curious Japanese mirror and case. 



The yellow-bellied woodpecker. (Centurus 

 fiaviventrU^ Swainson.) 



The golden-winged woodpecker. (Colaptes 

 auratus, Swainson.) 



Two robins, male and female. ( Turdus migra- 

 torius, Linnaeus.) 



The blue yellow-backed warbler. (JParula 

 Americana^ Bonaparte.) 



138 skins of Canadian birds. 

 5 " Foreign " 



20 mammals, (mostly however duplicate speci- 

 mens). 



4 Indian pipes, from an excavation in Hospital 

 street, Montreal. 



8 specimens of minerals, viz., quartz, and 

 quartz with pyrites, calc-spar and sul- 

 phate of barytes ; — from Devon and Corn- 

 wall, England. 



J. F. Whiteaves, F. G. S., &c., 

 Scientific Curator & Rec. Secretary N. H. S. 



