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— Dr. Leonhard Stejneger has returned from the Commander Islands, 

 Kamtschatka, with an extensive and valuable collection oi" birds and 

 other objects of natural history, and is now engaged in writing a report 

 tor publication upon the material gathered. 



— Messrs. J. Murdoch and Middleton Smith, who have been stationed 

 at Point Barrow, Alaska, for the last two years, have returned to Washing- 

 ton, bringing with them a large and interesting collection of birds, which 

 they will work up during the winter and later publish the results of 

 their investigations. 



— Mr. Lucien M. Turner, U. S. Signal Observer at Ungava, Northern 

 Labrador, has shipped to the National Museum an immense collection, 

 embracing more than a thousand bird-skins. These will be held until 

 Mr. Turner's return, a year or so hence, when he will prepare a report 

 upon them to be published by the National Museum. 



— Mr. Chas. H. Townsend is collecting birds, etc., for the National 

 Museum in Northern California, the central point of his explorations being 

 Baird, Shasta County. During the summer he ascended Mt. Shasta, and 

 made a collection of the birds which breed on that lofty peak. 



— Mr. L. Belding, who has so successfully explored the southern 

 extremity of Lower California, is now making collections in the vicinity 

 of San Diego. 



— Mr. Jose C. Zeledon, of San Jose, Costa Rica, occasionally sends col- 

 lections, including mostly new or very rare species, to the National 

 Museum. 



— Mr. C. C. Nutting has returned from a very successful reconnoissance 

 of Nicaragua, bringing with him about one hundred and thirty species 

 of birds new to the fauna of that country and six new to science. 



— Mr. P. L. Jouy, who has been making a collection of Japanese birds 

 for the National Museum, is now in Corea studying and collecting the 

 birds, etc., of that little-known country. 



— Mr. Wm. J. Fisher, U. S. Tidal Observer at Kadiak, Alaska, has sent 

 collections of much interest to the National Museum, among the more 

 noteworthy birds being the new CEstrelata fisheri. and another rare 

 Petrel, the i-'^^/wz^s tenuirostris. 



