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Brook Trout, Salvelinus fontinalis. 



A. P. WOOSTER, Norfolk, Connecticut. 16908. '85. (vn) 

 Cannister shot and miunie balls, from battlefield of Ball Run, Virginia. 



H. M. Smith, U. S. National Museum. 16909. '85. (i) 

 Coquina, shell-rock, from the Spanisb fort at Saint Augustine, Florida. 



A. Zeno Shindler, U. S. National Museum. 16910. '85. (i) 

 Dried Skin of a species of Ophichlhys, from Bermuda. 



Dr. F. M. Hamlin, Auburn, New York. 16911. '85. (vn) 

 Photographs from negatives of views in Southeast Alaska. 



A. P. Niblack, Ensign, U.S.N. 16912. '85. (ii,a) 

 Mammals, Urocyon rirginianus g , Neoioma floridana $ , Arvicola riparius $ , Spernio- 

 plnlus grammurus, Tamias asiaticus Townsendii, Spermophilus grammurus, S. gram- 

 murus Douglassi and Lepus sylvaticus auduboni (21 specimens). 

 Walter E, Bryant, Oakland, California. 16913. '85. (iv) 

 " Bidarka," or skin canoe, witb paddles, from Alaska. 



Charles H. Townsend, U. S. Fisb Commission. 16914. '85. (n, a) 

 Fossil Shells, from Alaska. 



Charles H. Townsend, U.S. Fish Commission. 16914. '85. (ix) 

 Actinians, from Alaska. 



Charles H. Townsend, U. S. Fisb Commission. 16914. '85. (xi) 

 Bird Skeletons, Circus hudsonius, Larus glaucus, Diomedea nigripes, Corvus caniir. 

 orus, Tinnunculua sparverius, and Lomvia aria, from Alaska. 

 Charles H. Townsend, U. S. Fisb Commission. 16914. '85. (xn) 

 Mammals, Erethrizon dorsalis epixanthus, Thalarctos maritimus, Sciurus hudsonius, 

 Eumotopias steUeri, Callorhinus ursinus, and Enhydris lutris (bones), from Alaska. 

 Chaisles H. Townsend, U S. Fisb Commission. 16914. '85. (xn) 



Birds. A collection of 152 specimens, from Ounalasbka Island, St. Paul's Island, 

 Otter Island, Port Clarence, Kotzebue Sound, St. Matthews' Island, and St. George 

 Island. The rarest or most important are the following: Kennicott's Warbler 

 (Phylloscopus borealis), Alaskan Wren (Troglodytes alascenses), Kowak Chicka- 

 dee (Par us stoneyi, n. sp.).* 



Charles H. Townsend, U. S. Fish Commission. 16914. '85. (v, a) 

 In addition to these were good series of such characteristic or peculiar Alaskan 

 birds as Leucosticte griseonucha, Melospiza cinerea. McKay's Snowflake {Plecirophanea 

 hyperboreus), Prybilov Snowrlake (P. nivalis townsendi, n. subsp.), and Long-toed Stint 

 ( Tringa damacensisi). 



Ermine, Pu torius erminea, in the flesh. 



A. R.Dodge, East Saginaw, Michigan. 16915. '35. (iv) 



Bird Skins. Chewink (Towhee), Pipilo erythr ophthalmitis, and Kingbird (Bee Martin), 

 Tyrannus carolinensis. 

 Lewis B. Woodruff, 14 East Sixty-eighth street, New York. 16916. '85. (v, a) 



Nests and Eggs of Chewink (Towhee), Pipilo erythrophthalmus, and of Kingbird (Bee 

 Martin), Tyrannus carolinensis. Set of four eggs in each. Collected at Litchfield, 

 Conn., June, 1885. 

 LewisB. Woodruff, 14 East Sixty-eighth street, New York. 16916. '85. (v,B) 



Fossil Plants. (Returned.) 



R. P. Sharplks, PhcBnixville, Pennsylvania. 16917. '85. (xix) * 



* A young bird ; characters of the species first clearly shown by Lieutenant Stoney's 

 adult examples. 



t New to North American fauna. 



