28 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



Longchamps, well known as an authority upon the rodentia, presented 

 25 specimens of small mammals, identified by himself. 



A collection of 13 Alaska moose and wild sheep was obtained for the 

 Museum by Mr. Dall DeWeese. One of these specimens has been 

 made the type of a new species of moose — Alces gu/as Miller. 



Among the mammals received from the National Zoological Park 

 were an elephant and a lion. 



The additions to the collections of birds, though less in extent than 

 in some previous years, included much important material, among 

 which should be mentioned a collection of 58 specimens of Colombian 

 birds, presented bv Mr. Outram Bangs, of Boston, Massachusetts, and 

 5 skins of the Californian Condor, purchased from Mr. F. H. Holmes, 

 of Berryessa, California. 



Doctor Ralph, custodian of the Section of Birds' Eggs, as in past 

 years, made a valuable contribution to the collection under his charge, 

 consisting in this instance of some 200 eggs from various sections of 

 North America. Mr. C. F. Baker, of Alabama, presented 127 eggs 

 from the Western United States. 



The U. S. Fish Commission transferred to the Museum a large col- 

 lection of reptiles and batrachians which had been assembled from time 

 to time by its field agents. This contained many specimens of impor- 

 tance, including unique specimens of a discoglossoid toad, the only 

 representative of this suborder of batrachians which has been found 

 in the Western Hemisphere. It has been described by Doctor Stej neger 

 under the name of Ascaphus truei. 



A small but interesting collection of reptiles from Java, made by 

 Prof. D. G. Fairchild, was transmitted to the Museum by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



A series of fishes of North and Central Asia, collected by M. Chaf- 

 fanjon, was received from the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The 

 U. S. Fish Commission transmitted fishes from Florida, Lake Superior, 

 Alaska, and Kamchatka, together with the types of Paralipccris rosa- 

 cens, and Baf/ty/agas miUei'i and Ulocentra meaduB. Two rare fishes 

 were received from the Pacific coast, a specimen of a RhampJiocottm, 

 presented by Mr. O. E. Shaffer, Port Townsend, Washington, and a 

 specimen of Icosteus cPMigmaticus^ presented by Mr. John Chapman, 

 of San Diego, California. 



Mr. William B. Moss, of Ashton-under-Lyne, England, a valued cor- 

 respondent and contributor to the Museum, donated two lots of small 

 shells, comprising some 3,000 specimens, collected by Rev. and Mrs. 

 James Hadfield at Lifou Island, Loyalty Group. They belong for 

 the most part to species recently described and hitherto unrepre- 

 sented in the Museum. 



Mr. B. H. Wright, of Penn Yan, New York, continued his donations 

 of river mussels (Unionid^), including types of species described by 



