REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS. 13! 



proprietors of menageries and zoological gardeus. Messrs. Bariiuu), 

 Bailey & Xlutchinson, Messrs. C. and E. Reiche, Mr. W. A. ConUliii 

 (snj)erintendent of the Central Park Menagerie, New York), and ilie 

 antborities of the Dime Musenm, Washington, liave together presented 

 no less than 27 monkeys. The lirst-named gentlemen have also sent 

 several other important animnls, snch as an eland, a harnessed anteloi)e, 

 a leopard, a peceary, and two hunting-leoi)ar(ls. ]\Ir. Conklin sent, in 

 addition to the monkeys, a specimen of the curious lemur, iStcnojhs tardi- 

 gradtis, a second lemur, a kangaroo, an Egyptian jumping-mouse, a 

 mongoose, a fruit-eating bat, and a young hogdeer. Mr. Lewis Sells, 

 of Cincinnati, presented, in addition to the puma mentioned on page loO, 

 a tine wart-hog and a baboon. 



Surgeon-Major Dobson, of Xetley, England, in eonsideration for sonje 

 American insectivores sent him for disseetion, has i)resented a collec- 

 tion of Asiatic and European bats and iusectivoies. In the collection 

 made by Mr. P. L. Jouy in Japan were found a number of the char- 

 acteristic mammals of those islands. Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, during 

 his visit to Eastern Siberia, procured a very line series of skulls of the 

 brown bear, U. arctos, and two skins of the Siberian sheep, 0. nivicolea. 

 His collections of aquatic mammals will be mentioned in another idace 

 (see below). While in London the curator purchased a small collection 

 of exotic mammals, including a skin of Galidia olivacea, and a skull of 

 the rare lemur, Propithecus holomelas. Other similar specimens were 

 purchased from Mr. H. A. Ward, of liochester, among them a specimen 

 of Riippell's monkey {Guereza RiippelU), a civet cat, and a llama. 



AQUATIC MAMMALS. 



Seals. — A number of important pinnipeds were received during the 

 year. The last boxes of specimens collected by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger 

 in Bering Island contained a very large series of skulls of Steller's 

 sea-lion, Eumetopias iStelleri, the harbor seal, P. vitulina, &c., and, in 

 addition, a skull of the Pacific walrus. 



Mr. C. H. Townsend has sent specimens of the pinnipeds of the Cali- 

 fornian coast, notably skeletons and skins of the California sea-lion, 

 Zalophus californianus. Four skeletons of the harp seal were purchased 

 from a Newfoundland whaler, through Dr. C. H. Merriam ; and from 

 Captain Longstreet, of the life-saving station at Manisquan, N. J., was 

 received a fresh specimen of Phoca vitulina. 



Cetaceans. — The year has been a notable one so far as cetaceans are 

 concerned. Specimens have been received from about ten different 

 sources. Of the greatest value are the skulls of zi])hioid whales col- 

 lected by Dr. Stejneger in Bering Island, and representing three genera, 

 Berardius, Ziphius., and Mcsoplodon. A skull of Bcrardius fj-om New 

 Zealand was purchased from Mr. Ward, of Rochester, in order that the 

 proper comparisons might be made. The Zoological Museum of Oxford 

 University, through Professor Moseley, presented a cast of the beak 



