C)H REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



Commission vessels 011 the Atlantic coast, aud also crustaceans chiefly 

 from the North Pacific Ocean, collected during the cruises of the 

 steamer Albatross for the past four or five years. 



From Mr. William J. Fox, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, through Prof. Riley, were received in exchange specimens of 

 North American aculeate hymenoptera, most of which are new to the 

 collection. 



JtHITISH A.MEKICA. 



British Columbia. — From Mr. Ashdown Green, Victoria, was received 

 a line specimen of Ghirolophus polyactocephalus. 



From Mr. P. MacFarlane, Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, were 

 received birds* nests, skins and eggs, collection of fossil resin, and skin 

 of a marmot (Arctomys monax). 



From Dr. Karl Bominger, Ann Arbor, Mich., were received 145 

 specimens of Middle Cambrian fossils from Mount Stephen. 



Mr. Frank Russell, Iowa City, Iowa, presented eight fossil shells. 



Mr. Walter D. Wilcox, New Haven. < !onn., presented valuable speci- 

 mens of Middle Cambrian carboniferous fossils from Mount Stephen. 



Labrador. — Front the Department of Agriculture were received 3 

 gray seals. 



Newfoundland. — From Col. Cecil (May, Department of Justice, were 

 obtained by purchase 5 specimens of woodland caribou. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



British Honduras. —From the Royal Zoological Museum, Florence, 

 Italy, through Prof. Henry Giglioli, director, were received archaeolog- 

 ical objects from British Honduras. 



Costa Rica. — From the National Museum, San dose, were received 

 birds' skins, and, through Mr. George K. Cherrie, were received type 

 specimens of Mionectes semischistaceus, sp. now, and Ornithion pusillum 

 subflavum. 



Mr. Gustave Michaud, San dose, through Prof ('. Y. Riley, United 

 States entomologist, Departmentof Agriculture, transmitted specimens 

 representing various orders of insects. 



Yucatan.— Capt. Charles E. Bendire, I. S. Army, honorary curator 

 of birds' eggs. National Museum, presented a. set of eggs of Tantalus 

 loculator. 



From the U. S. Fish Commission, through Col. McDonald, commis- 

 sioner, were received shells and alcoholic specimens of lizards from 

 Cozumel Island, oil" the coast of Yucatan, collected in 1885, 



Capt. John (1. Bonrke, U. S. Army, presented a collection of Guada- 

 lajara pottery, and deposited soles of the "guarachi," or sandals, used 

 by the Mexican foot-soldiers along the Rio Grande; throwing-stick and 



