LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 1885. 195 



African Paroquet, Aga^pornis pullarius, $ ad. 



Dr. W. W. Godding, Superintendent Government Hospital for the Insane, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. 15807. '85. (V, A) 



Cinchona Weed and Rattlesnake Eantin. 



Dr. W. Lewis, Petersburg, Va. 15808. '85. (I) 



Mica-Schist, containing iron pyrites. Decomposed. 



J. G. Stufflebeam, Delaney, Madison County, Ark. 15809. '85. (XIV) 



Californian Condor, Fseudogryphus calif or nianus. Five specimens in the flesh. 



F. McCORMACK, Jolon, Cal. 15810. '85. (V, A) 



Shark, Somniosus microcepJialus, in the flesh. About 11 feet long. Out of the stomach 

 had been taken 1 peck of herrings and 6 yards of a gill-net. 



A. H. Myers, keeper Quoddy Head life-saving station, Lubec, Me. 15811, 

 '85. (VII) 



Shells. Installment of the North European and British collection of the late Dr. 

 J. Gwyn Jeffreys. 



J. Gwyn Jeffreys (through Howel Jeffreys), 61 Bedford Gardens, Ken- 

 sington, London. 15812. '85. (IX) 



Prairie Hen, Tympanuchus pinnatus, in the flesh. 



Alexander Skinner, Washington, D. C. J5813. '85. (V, A) 



Japanese Porcelain. Purple dish, 4| inches square. (Deposited.) 



G. Brown Goode, Washington. 15814. '35. (I) 



Salt. An impure mixture of common salt and sulphate of sodium. 

 E. S. Stover, Albuquerque, N. Mex. 15815. '85. (XIV) 



MusKRAT, Flier zibethicus, from Quantico, Va. 



H. W. Henshaw, U. S. Geological Survey. 15816. '85. (IV) 



Life-Boat Model. Life-boat and life-car combined. 



Fred. S. Allen, Cuttyhunk^ Mass. 15817. '85. (I) 



Bird Skin, Thamnophilus radiatus $ juv. ?, from Bahia. 

 H. K. COALE, Chicago, 111. 15818. '85. (V, A) 



Fossils. 



George Spangler, Madison, Ind. Purchased by the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey. 15819. '85. (XII, A) 



Casts of Dinocerata, including Binoceras mirdbile, Dinoceraa laticeps, Tinoceraa 

 ingens, and Tinoceras longiceps. 

 Prof. O. C. Marsh, New Haveu, Conn. 15820. '85. (VIII) 



Wood Eat, Neotoma floridana, var. Mexicana. 



Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, U. S. A., Fort Wingate, New Mexico. 15822. '85. (IV) 



Eed Fox Scalps. A pair from Illinois. Called by the hunters " wolf " scalps, in 

 order to secure the bounty. 

 J. P. Leach, Eushville, 111. 15823. '85. (IV) 



Winter Wren, Troglodytes hyemalis, and Tufted Titmouse, Lophophanes Ucolor. For 

 name. 



James W.EoGAN, Eogersville,Tenn. 15824. '85. (V,A) 



Arrow-heads. From Willamette Eiver, Oregon, and from mound-builders' burial- 

 ground on Fox Eiver, Wisconsin. 

 Theo. H. Wise, Wheaton, 111. 15825. '85. Eetumed. 



