80 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



194 .specimens of birds from the interior of Honduras, purchased from 

 Mr. Erich Wittkugel, of San Pedro Sula, Republic of Honduras; a col- 

 lection of birds from South Carolina, crmtaining one species {Cistotkorus 

 mariancv Scott) new to the Museum collection, received from Mr. James 

 E. Benedict, of the National Museum. 



Birds' er/ffs. — An exceedingly valuable collection of nests and eggs 

 received from R. MacFarlane, esq., of the Hudson Bay Company; 15 

 specimens of birds' eggs, 15 specimens of eggs of the rare Franklin's 

 grou.se {DendraaapuH franMinU), 4 eggs of the Greater Yellowlegs 

 {Totanvn meJanoJeucus), 9 eggs of the Canadian Ruffed grouse [Bonana 

 umhellm to{/ata),weve presented by Mr. W. E.Traill, of Fort St. James, 

 British Columbia; 8 nests and 13 eggs, all collected in the District of 

 Columbia, were received from Dr. Hugh M. Smitli, of the U. S. Fish 

 Commis.sion. 



Fishes. — A collection of fishes, made by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross, from the Galapagos Islands and Panama, received 

 from the U. S. Fish Commission; a collection of deep-sea fishes from the 

 Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterrean Sea, received through Mr. Leon 

 Vaillant, from the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France; fishes 

 collected in the Bay of Guaymas, Souora, Mexico, received from Prof. 

 B. W. Evermann, Greencastle, Ind. 



Reptiles (mdhatracJiians. — A very interesting collection of reptiles from 

 Mr. Charles K. Worthen, Warsaw, 111.; alcoholic si)ecimens of lizards 

 from Arizona, collected by P. L. Jouy, of the National Museum ; a col- 

 lection of reptiles from Idaho, made by Dr. C. Hart Merrian, of the 

 Department of xVgriculture ; several collections of reptiles, made by 

 Charles R. Orcutt, of San Diego, in southern California ; reptiles from 

 the Seychelles Islands and the Kilima-Njaro mountains, collected by 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott, of Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mollusks. — An iuteresting collection of iimrine shells from the coast 

 of Venezuela, including a beautiful series of the Argonaut, received 

 from ]VIr. R. M. Bartleman of the United States legation at Caracas, 

 Venezuela; a remarkably fine series of Tritonum femorale from the 

 Bahama Islands, presented by Mr. Isaiah Greegor of Jacksonville, Fla. ; 

 an interesting series of shells and miocene fossils, collected by Messrs. 

 Henry W. Elliott and William Palmer in connection with their visit to 

 the Seal Lslands of Alaska; collections from the western Atlantic coast 

 obtained by the naturalists of the Fish Commis.sion. 



Insects. — A collection of Tineidw including North American and 

 European species, transndtted to the National Museum by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; a collection of specimens of Lepidoptera and Cole- 

 optera, collected in ( 'alifornia and Washington by Mr. A. Koebele, and 

 transmitted by the Department of Agriculture; an extensive series of 

 North American Microlepidoptera from the Department of Agriculture. 



Marine invertebrates. — A collection of Brachyurans from the U. S. 

 Fish Commission; a collection containing 500 specimens of annelids 



