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proprietors of menageries Mid zoological gardens, Messrs. Barnum, 



Bailey & Hutchinson, Messrs. 0. and B. Eteiohe, Mr. W. A. Oonklin 

 [superintendent of the Central Park Menagerie, He* fork), and the 



authorities of the Dime Museum, Washington, have together presented 



DO less than 27 monkeys. The tirst-named gentlemen have also sent 

 ><\ era] other important animals, such as ;in eland, a harnessed antelope, 

 a leopard, a peccary, and two hunt Lng leopards. Mr. Conklin sent, in 



addition to the monkeys, a specimen of the curious lemnr, 8Unops tardi- 

 firddu.s, a second lemur, a kangaroo, an Egyptian jumping-mouse, b 

 mongoose, a fruit-eating bat, and a yonng bog-deer. Mr. Lewis Bells, 

 of Cincinnati, presented, in addition to the puma mentioned on page 130, 



a line wart-hog and a baboon. 



Surgeon-Major Dobson, of Net ley, England, in consideration for ,s< ■ 



American insectivorcs sent him for dissection, has presented a collec- 

 tion of Asiatic and European bats and insectivores. In the collection 

 made by Mr. P. L. Jony in Japan were found a number of the char- 

 acteristic mammals of those islands. Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, during 

 his visit to Eastern Siberia, procured a very fine series of skulls of the 

 brown bear, U. arctos, and two skins of the Siberian sheep, 0. nivicolea. 

 His collections of aquatic mammals will be mentioned in another place 

 (see below). While in London the curator purchased a small collection 

 of exotic mammals, iucluding a skin of Galidia olivacea, and a skull of 

 the rare lemur, Propithecus holomelas. Other similar specimens were 

 purchased from Mr. H. A. Ward, of Rochester, among them a specimen 

 of RiippelPs monkey (Ouereza Ruppelli), a civet cat, and a llama. 



AQUATIC MAMMALS. 



Seals. — A number of important pinnipeds were received during the 

 year. The last boxes of specimens collected by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger 

 in Bering Island contained a very large series of skulls of Steller's 

 sea-lion, Eumetopias Stelleri, the harbor seal, P. ritulina, &c, and, in 

 addition, a skull of the Pacific walrus. 



Mr. C. H. Townsend has sent specimeus of the pinnipeds of the Cali- 

 fornian coast, notably skeletons and. skins of the California sea-lion, 

 Zatophus calif ornianus. Four skeletons of the harp seal were purchased 

 from a Newfoundland whaler, through Dr. C. H. Merriam ; and from 

 Captain Longstreet, of the life-saving station at Manisquan, N. J., was 

 received a fresh specimen of Phoca vitulina. 



Cetaceans. — The year has been a notable one so far as cetaceans are 

 concerned. Specimens have been received from about ten different 

 sources. Of the greatest value are the skulls of ziphioid whales col- 

 lected by Dr. Stejneger in Bering Island, and representing three genera, 

 Berardius, Ziphiu.s, and Mesophdon. A skull of Bcrardius from New 

 Zealand was purchased from Mr. Ward, of Rochester, in order that the 

 proper comparisons might be made. The Zoological .Museum of ( tacfbrd 

 University, through Professor Moseley, presented a cast of the beak 



