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Mr. George A. Boardman, Calais, Me. Eggs of the Florida courlin, or 

 Um\)]im {Aramns piotm), from Florida. (G.) 



British Museum., London, England. Forty-five species, from Pegu (all 

 new to the collection). (Ex.) 



Mr. E. I)icJiinso7i, ^j^ringjield, Mass. One set of eggs of Tetanus melano- 

 Icucus, from Manitoba. (New to the collection.) (G.) 



Governor FencTcer, Godhavn, Greenland. Eighty-seven specimens (en- 

 tries), twenty-four species, from Greenland. 



Mr. Wm. J. Fisher, U. 8. Tidal Observer. Fifteen specimens, fifteen 

 species, from Kodiak Island, Alaska, and vicinity. The most inter- 

 esting sjjecimens are eggs of the bald..eagle [HaUaiJhis leucocejjhalus) 

 and black oystercatcher {Hccmatoimsniger). 



Mr. R. G. Hazard, 2d, Peace Dale, R. I. Eggs of Spheniscus demersns, 

 Eudypes chrysocome and Diomedea culminata, from Falkland Islands- 



Mr. George iV. Laicrence, Neiv YorJc City. One egg of the Honduras 

 turkey [Meleagris ocellata), from Yucatan. (New to the collection.) 

 (Ex.) 



Br. J. G. Merrill, JJ. 8. A. One set of eggs of the pink-sided snow- 

 bird {Junco annectens), from Big Horn Mountains, Montana Territory. 

 (New to the collection.) (Ex.) 



Sergeants John Murdoch and Middleton 8mith, U. 8. Signal Service, 

 Forty-six specimens {i. e., entries), sixteen species, from Point Bar- 

 row, Alaska. Two of the species new to the collection, if not to 

 science, viz, Actodromas maculata and Pelidna alpina americana. 



Department of Reptiles, 

 Henry C. Yarrow, Honorary Curator. 



Two hundred and thirty entries have been made in the herpeto- 

 logical record book, which would probably represent not less than 

 nine hundred and twenty specimens. 



Thirty-one specimens of fourteen species of reptiles, many of them 

 very rare, were received in exchange from the British Museum, through 

 Dr. Giinther. 



Valuable collections have been received from Mr. James Bell, of 

 Gainesville, Fla., and Mr. L. Belding, of California, employed as col- 

 lectors by the National Museum, and from Mr. Eobert Ridgway, Mr. 

 Lucien M. Turner, Mr. Gustav Eisen, and others. 



The accessions of greatest interest are the valuable collection of Mr. 

 L. Belding, made in Lower California, which contained a beautiful speci- 

 men of Crotalus rnitchelli, the only one at present in the Museum ; 

 Crotalus enyo, Bufo heldingi (sp. nov.), Crotaphytus copei (sp. nov.), Uta 

 elcgans (sp. nov.), and Sceloporus rujidorsum (sp. nov.). In the collec- 

 tion made by Mr. Eobert llidgway, at "Wheatland, Ind., was found a 

 new subsj)ecies of Ophibolus, which has been called Ophibolus getulus 

 niger. In Mr. Gustav Eisen's collection, made near Fresno, Cal., two new 

 subspecies of Ophibolus have been discovered, which are named Ophi- 



