Annual lieport.] 214 [Mayl, 



1865. January A. Remarks on the type of iJu^eo insignatus ; also 



Remarks on Sphyropkus varius Linn. 



1866. January ii. A list of birds from Porto Rico presented to the 



Smithsonian Institution by IMessrs. Robert Swift and George 

 Latimer, with descriptions of new species and varieties. 

 October 1 7. Addition to a list of birds seen at the Bahamas. 

 December 5. A Ust of the birds of St. Domingo Avith descrip- 

 tions of some new species or varieties. 

 Dr. Bryant also published in the Coraptes Rendus, xxvi, p. 276, 

 1848, a paper on the Corpus striatum in birds. 



During the last ten years he made the following expedi- 

 tions for scientific research and collections, viz. : To Grand 

 Manan, Florida, Bahamas, Florida, Canada and Labrador, 

 North Carolina, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Porto Rico. 



His Donations to the Society are as follows : — 



1859. A collection of rejstlles, fishes, crustaceans and shells from 

 the Bahamas. 



1860. Miscellaneous collections from Labrador and Florida. 



1861. A valuable collection of skins of mammals procm-ed by him 

 through the Smithsonian Institution. 



1864. Three hundred mounted foreign birds from his own collec- 

 tion, and three hundred and forty-six specluiens of mounted birds 

 obtained by him from the Smithsonian Institution ; the specimens from 

 this Institution, In the last two donations, having been procured 

 through pecuniary aid received from him. 



1865. Twenty-five hundred specimens, chiefly shells and Insects. 

 Five hundred specimens of fossils from Lyme Regis. 



1866. The magnificent Lafresnaye collection of birds, containing 

 nearly nine thousand specimens, was purchased by him at Falalse, 

 France, and presented to the Society. Of this addition to the Mu- 

 seum, Prof Baird, In a letter to the Committee, writes as follows : — " I 

 have little hesitation in saying that no other single cabinet In Europe, 

 public or private, contains so many types of American species, and 

 could I have chosen at will, I certainly would have selected that in 

 your possession as the most desirable to have In America. This Is due 

 to the feet that Lafresnaye, .during the many years In which he was 

 occupied In forming his collection, was the principal authority for 

 South American ornithology ; and nearly all the princijjal gatherings 

 from Bogota, Ecuador, Bolivia, etc., passed Into his hands for descrip- 



