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and New Guinea. Among these may be mentioned a specimen of Prince Albert's 

 Crowned Pigeon ; a Victoria Lyre-bird ; and a female Drepanornis alhertisi, a Paradise 

 bird of a genus hitherto unrepresented in our collection. These form a valuable ad- 

 dition to the exhibition series. (Purchased.) 



H. E. Dresser, London, England : 21 specimens, 19 species, from various localities 

 in the Old World, besides a number of rare species new to the collection, among 

 which a fine male of Ammoperdix bonhami is to be mentioned. The collection contains 

 the downy x>lumages of 9 species of water birds, a series of great value and interest. 

 (Exchange.) 



Prof. A. Duges, Guanajuato, Mexico: 15 specimens, 14 species, from northern Mex- 

 ico. (Gift.) 



Vinal N. Edwards, Wood's Holl, Massachusetts : 35 specimens, 16 species, in the 

 flesh, chiefly water birds from Wood's Holl. 



Dr. W. H. Fox, Washington, District of Columbia: 76 specimens, 37 species, birds 

 from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. (Exchange.) 



C. S. Galbraith, through G. N. Lawrence, New York City : Three male Bachman's 

 Warblers, from Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans, Louisiana. (Purchased.) 



Denis Gale, Gold Hill, Colorado : 8 specimens, 5 species, from Colorado. (Gift.) 



N. S. Goss, Topeka, Kansas: 4 specimens, 2 species, being one pair each of the two 

 new species, Sula gossi Ridgw. and S. irewsteri Goss, discovered by Colonel Goss on 

 San Martir Isle, Gulf of California, the males being the types of the respective 

 species. (Gift.) 



A. H. Hawley, Los Gatos, California: 6 specimens, 6 species, from Los Gatos. 

 (Gift.) 



P. L. Jouy, Washington, District of Columbia : 1 specimen Lady Amherst Pheas- 

 ant {Pliasianus amhersiict'), full plumaged old male. (Exchange.) 



P. L. Jouy, Washington, District of Columbia : 45 specimens, 35 species, from 

 China. This collection contains several interesting and rare species from the interior 

 of China, as, for instance, Suthora alphonsiana, Pycnonotus xanthorrhous, etc., and many 

 are new to the Museum collection. (Gift.) 



Valdemar Knudseji, Boston, Massachusetts : 25 specimens, 12 species, from the Isl- 

 ands of Kaui and Kiihaii; Hawaiian Archipelago. Avery interesting collection, add- 

 ing several species to the Hawaiian fauna, and one species, Puffinus knudseni Stejn., 

 new to science. (Gift.) 



T. Mcllwaith, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: 9 specimens, 8 species, from British 

 Columbia. (Exchange.) 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Washington, District of Columbia: A fine albino Urinator 

 lumme, from Canada, and a Yellow-billed Tropic-bird, from the Bahamas. (Exchange.) 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Washington, District of Colirmbia: Wing of Euetheia canora, 

 collected by Mr. M. E. Spencer at Sombrero Key, Florida, the first specimen of this 

 species obtained in North America. (Gift.) 



A. Nehrkorn, Riddagshausen, Braunschweig, Germany : 67 specimens, 54 species, 

 chiefly from Africa and the Malay Archipelago. Nearly all the species were unrep- 

 resented in the Museum, and many are of great variety and beautiful plumage, con- 

 taining among others no less than 24 gaily-colored pigeons, of which seven species are 

 of the genus PliUnopus. (Exchange.) 



Dr. August Miiller, Berlin, Germany: 24 specimens, 21 species, rare and interesting 

 birds from Africa and the East Indies for the exhibition series. The Ground Horn" 

 bill {Bucorvus caffer) and Musophaga rossce deserve special mention. All new to the 

 collection. (Purchased. ) 



E. W. Nelson, Springerville, Arizona: 102 specimens, 38 species, from Arizona, Col- 

 orado, and New Mexico; a very valuable collection, tilling many important gaps in 

 the Museum collection and completing the series of several of the rare western spe- 

 cies. (Purchased.) 



William Palmer, Washington, Distri(-t of Columbia: A specimen of Kirtland's 

 W iixhle.v {Dewlroica kirtlandi), a very rare species, and one GriiiueH's Watev-Thrnsh 



