656 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



Stone Implements: 5 cutting tools, a perforator, 25 arrow-heads, 2 rude chipped 

 celts, a chipped celt with grooved edge for cutting - , 3 polished celts, a fragment 

 of leaf-shaped implement, a celt gouge, a pestle, 2 pierced tab ets, a grooved 

 sinker, a pierced ceremonial object; 46 specimens presented, and 24 arrow-heads 

 and 5 celts in exchange. 

 A. A. Peeing, Wrights, Pennsylvania. 16567. '87. (in) 

 American Eed-Necked Grebe, Podiceps cornutus (skeleton). 



W. B. Barrows, Department of Agriculture. 18568. '87. (xn) 

 Buzzard, Cathartes aura (skeleton); from Virginia. 



H. W. Henshaw, Bureau of Ethnology, District of Columbia. 18569. '87. 



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Crow, Corvus americanus (skeleton) ; from Maryland. 



E. E. Todd, U. S. National Museum. 18570. '87. (xn) 

 Mocking-bird, Mimus polyglottos (skeleton). 



Louis Schmid & Sons, Washington, District of Columbia. 18571. '87. 



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Fishes : Querimana gyrans (3 specimens), G-ambusia puncticulata '2 specimens), 

 Sphyrcena picuda, juv. (1 specimen); retained from a collection sent for identifica- 

 tion. 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. (Through C. F. Hodge.) 

 18572. '87. (vn) 

 Grub, highly esteemed by the natives of Venezuela as an article of food; found iu 

 the heart of palm trees on the Orinoco River. 

 Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Washington, District of Columbia. 18573. '87. (i) 

 Snake-heads: Macapie, Xephosoma ruschenborgeis, and Capabella, Orynbopus plum- 

 beus ; from the Island of Trinidad. Collected by W. Hallett Phillips. 



Dr. H. C. Yarrow, U. S. Army, Washington, District of Columbia. 18573. 

 '87. (vi) 

 Coins: A Connecticut colonial copper coin and a "Knickerbocker currency" war 

 token of 1863. 

 Mrs. Sarah Eckels, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 18574. '87. (i) 

 Food of Ixtatan Indians: Totoposte, pinol, birrin, frijol, chile, and cafe". 

 Prof. Miles Rock, Guatemala, Central America. 18575. '87. (i) 

 Black Woolen Coat worn by the Ixtatan Indians. 



Prof. Miles Rock, Guatemala, Central America. 18575. '87. (n, a) 

 Ore, from Piedras Negras Mine, Mexico ; for examination. 



J. G. Welch. (Through Hon. W. G. Allen, United States consul, Piedras 

 Negras, Mexico.) 18576. '87. (xvin) 

 Arrow-head, cutting tools (2), and fragments of chipped implements (3) ; from 

 Nebraska. 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 18577. '87. (in) 

 Bikd-skins (9 specimens, 6 species), from New Hampshire, New Brunswick, and 

 Florida. (Exchange.) 

 Arthur P. Chadbourne, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 18578. '87. (v, a) 

 Opossum, Bidelphys cinereus; from Nicaragua. 



Zoological Society of Philadelphia. (Through Arthur E. Brown, Esq.) 

 18579. '87. (iv) 

 Rose Hill Parakeet, Platycercus eximius. (Skeleton.) 



Zoological Society of Philadelphia. (Through Arthur E. Brown, Esq.) 

 18579. '87. (xn) 



Canary Bird, Serinus canariensis var. in flesh. 



W. C. Weeden, U. S. National Museum. 18580. '87. (v,a) 

 Shells: Unio ozarkensis Call, and U. brevicolas, Triodopsiscraigeni, and Helix sp. ; from 

 Missouri and Indian Territory. Author's types of species. 



R. Ellsworth Call, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. 18581. '87, 

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