52 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



lashka rock ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris nelsoni), and a new species of 

 Chickadee from the Kowak River, lately described as Parus stoneyi. 



Dr. T. Hale Streets, assistant surgeon U. S. Navy, of the Coast Sur- 

 vey steamer Carlisle Patterson, sends collections of fishes and marine 

 invertebrates from Alaska. 



The latter are referred to at length in the report of the curator of 

 marine inventebrates. 



Mr. N. Grebnitzki, the Russian governor of Bering Island, has sent 

 important zoological collections from the Bering and Commander Islands. 

 These are referred to in the reports of the curators and in Part v. Es- 

 pecially noteworthy are the skeletons of a ziphoid whale, Xiphius Greb- 

 nitslcii, and of the Northern mountain sheep, Ovis nivicola.* 



Arkansas. — Dr. J. Guy Lewis, of Little Bock, gives a number of valu- 

 able minerals. C. F. Brown, of Hot Springs, also gives minerals ; and 

 W. W. Morrison sends a series of quartz crystals. In addition, various 

 minerals and ores have been received for identification. 



Arizona. — Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 has placed in the Museum a large collection of pottery, stone-perforators, 

 grooved axes, mortars, pestles, grinding-stones, rubbing-stones, arrow- 

 shaft straighteners, stone carvings, bone whistles, and paint-stones, ob- 

 tained by Col. James Stevenson. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson, formerly connected with the Museum, now living at 

 Springerville, Arizona, has sent in interesting archaeological specimens 

 from the headwaters of the San Francisco Biver. These are described 

 in the report of the curator of archaeology. 



Boswell Wheeler, jr., of Sacaton, has sent some rare birds' eggs. 



Dr. B. J. D. Irwin contributed a skull of a bay lynx and also an In- 

 dian strainer used by Apache Indians in the preparation of "tiswin," 

 an intoxicating drink made from the mescal plant. 



A collection of seventy-live specimens of stone implements was ob- 

 tained by purchase from J. H. Carlton, of Fort Thomas. 



Maj. Anson Mills, U. S. Army, Tenth Cavalry, sends living specimens 

 of the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectmn. 



California. — One of the most interesting contributions from this State 

 was that sent by Lieut. P. H. Bay, U. S. Army, illustrative of the do- 

 mestic arts and industries of the Indians of Hoopa Valley. This is the 

 subject of a special illustrated paper by Professor Mason, and a descrip- 

 tive list of the one hundred and twenty-six objects in this collection is 

 given in Part v.t 



Lieut. L. W. Green, of Baird, Cal., obtained a series of tools used by 

 Shasta Indians in making bows and arrows, with specimens of their 

 work. 



C. B. Orcutt, of San Diego, sent fossil argonauta in indurated clay 

 from southern California. A large number of horned lizards, Phry- 

 nosoma coronatum, was obtained by Miss Rosa Smith, of San Diego. 



Accession 1(3878. t Accession 17239. 



