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Belding, L., Stockton, Cal. : 13 specimens, 5 species, from San Diego, 

 Cal. (Gift.) 



. 4 species from Lower California and an interesting series of 



Passerculus beldingi (sp. nov.) from San Diego. (Gift.) 



Bendire, Capt. Charles E., IT. 8. A. : 304 specimens, 92 species, from 

 Fort Klamath, Oreg. (Gift.) 



Benedict, J. E., and Nye, W., Jr., IT. 8. Fish Commission : 94 speci- 

 mens, 44 species, collected during the cruise of the Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross, at St. Thomas, W. I., on the islands of Trinidad, 

 Mona, Curacoa, and Old Providence, and at Sabanilla, New Granada. 

 Of the 10 species collected at Curacoa and Old Providence, 8 were new 

 to science. A pair of the interesting oil bird or guacharo (Steatornis 

 caripensis) were collected at Mona Island. (See notice of special paper 

 on this collection, in list of papers based on material in the National 

 Museum collection.) 



Bergen Museum, Bergen, Norway (through Dr. L. Stejneger) : 78 speci- 

 mens, 45 species, chiefly from Norway. (Exchange.) 



Berlepsch, Count von, Muenden, Germany : 81 specimens, 66 species, of 

 neotropical birds, many of them new to the collection - also, 20 speci- 

 mens, 18 species, from Malacca — nearly all previously unrepresented. 

 (Exchange.) 



Bicknell, Eugene P., River dale. N. Y. : Pair of Hylocichla aliciw bick- 

 nelli; new to the collection. (Gift.) 



Blakiston, Capt. T. W. : 675 specimens, chiefly from Japan, as follows : 

 149 species from Japan, 76 from China, 63 from England, 3 from Kanit- 

 schatka, 2 from India; total 293 species. (Gift.) (This collection is 

 specially important, having been made during a 20 years' residence in 

 Japan, and forming the basis of Captain Blakiston's various papers — 

 also those of other writers — on the birds of that country. Its acqui- 

 sition, together with the collection made by Mr. P. L. Jouy, renders the 

 National Museum collection of Japanese birds perhaps the most com- 

 plete extant.) 



Boardman, George A., Calais, Me. : 1 burrowing owl and 1 specimen 

 of Crotophaga ani, from Florida. (Gift.) 



British Museum, London, England (through Mr. B. E. Earll, U. 8. Fish 

 Commission) : 126 specimens, 100 species, from various localities in Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia. (Gift.) 



. (through Dr. T. H. Bean, Curator, Department of Fishes, U. 



8. National Museum) : 247 specimens, 204 species, chiefly from India. 

 (Gift.) 



Bryant, D. 8., Oakland, Cal. (through L. Belding, Stockton, Cal.) : An 

 interesting series of Passerculus sandwichensis bryanti (subsp. nov.), from 

 Oakland, Cal. (Gift.) 



Coale, H. K., Chicago, III.: 14 species, chiefly from India, 5 of them 

 new to the collection. (Exchange.) 



. 29 specimens, 27 species (several new to the collection), from 



various localities. (Exchange.) 



