REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
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NEW COLLECTIONS. 
The following special groups of birds’ nests, eggs and young 
were procured from Mr. William H. Werner by the Museum 
Commission and sent to the Jamestown Exposition with the other 
New Jersey State Museum Exhibits, and will be returned to the 
State House, Trenton, and installed in the Museum. ‘Two large 
elass cabinets, containing the following specimens: 
Pair of snowy owls (Nyctea nyctea), male and female and nest and eggs, 
with natural surroundings. 
Great horned owl, male and female, nest and eggs, with natural surround- 
ings. 
Hawk owl, male and female, nest and eggs, with natural suroundings. 
Wilson’s long-eared owl, male and female, nest and eggs, with natural 
surroundings. 
Saw-whet owl, male and female, nest and eggs, with natural surroundings. 
All of the above with painted background. 
Four small cabinets of bird groups: 
The sparrow hawks, male and female, nest, eggs and young, with natural 
surroundings. 
Clapper rail or mud hen, female and young, and a white or Albino speci- 
men, with natural surroundings. 
Sharp-shinned hawk, female and five young and nest, with natural sur- 
roundings. 
Purple galinule, male and female and six young, with natural surroundings. 
NEW SPECIMENS IN THE STATE MUSEUM DURING THE YEAR. 
Mounted Birds. Spotted sandpiper. 
Caspian tern. : Great horned owl. 
Forster’s tern. Hairy woodpecker. 
Common tern. P Purple grackle. 
Black skimmer. Lapland longspur. 
American golden plover. Savanna sparrow. 
Red-backed sandpiper. White-eyed vireo. 
American long-eared owl (young). Louisiana water-thrush. 
Chuck-will’s widow. Mourning warbler. 
Nighthawk. Wilson’s warbler. 
Redpoll. American pipit. 
Varied thrush. Winter wren. 
Puffin. Sandbill cranes (male and female). 
Common tern. Swan. 
Semipalmated sandpiper. Coot. 
