96 KEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



WM1 DEPARTMENT AND THE ARMY. 



The Hon. Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War, has transmitted to the 

 Museum two swords presented to the late Gen. James Shields by the 

 States of South Carolina and Illinois for gallant services in the Mexi- 

 can War. 



From Gen. M. C. Meigs, U. S. Army (retired), was received a whistle, 

 supposed to have been found in an Indian mound near Columbus, 

 Georgia. 



A living Cbachalacca pheasant, was presented by Maj. George W. 

 McKee, U. S. Army, Allegheny Arsenal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Oa.pt. W. L. Carpenter, Ninth Infantry, U. S. Army, presented a skin of 

 the Rocky Mountain Lined-tailed Spermophile (Spermophilus grammurus) 

 from Fort Whipple, Arizona. Captain Carpenter also presented alco- 

 holic specimens of reptiles, fishes, and insects from the same locality. 



Capt. Henry Roineyn, U. S. Army, presented 13 living White- winged 

 Doves (Mclopelia leucoptera) from Fort Ringgold, Texas. He also pre- 

 sented specimens of clay tunnels constructed by ants, and two living 

 Peccaries (Dicotylcs tajuga). 



Capt. P. H. Ray, U. S. Army, Omaha, Nebraska, sent palaeolithic 

 implements from the Bridger Basin, on the north slope of the Uintah 

 Mountains, Utah. 



From Lieut. H. C. Benson, U. S. Army, were received 3 eggs (1 set 

 of the long-crested Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri macrolopha Baird). 



Lieut. Malvern Hill Barnum,.U. S. Army, Fort Pena, Colorado^ Texas, 

 presented a set of 12 eggs and a skin of the Scaled Partridge (Colli 

 pepla squamata Vig.). 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, sent 8 specimens, representing 3 

 species of Juncos, from Fort Wingate, New Mexico. Also a mounted 

 skeleton of Trumpeter Swan (Olor buccinator). 



An exceedingly interesting series of 12 ethnological specimens from 

 the Navajo Indians was received from Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. 

 Army, Army Medical Museum. 



Assistant Surgeon J. C.Merrill, U. S. Army, Fort Reno, Indian Terri- 

 tory, presented 14 eggs (1 set) of Tympaniichuspallidicinctusj 19 eggs (4 

 sets) of Progne subis ; 18 eggs (4 sets) of Spiza omericano, and 2 nests ; 

 4 eggs (1 set) of Quisealus quiscula caucus; 3 eggs (I set) of Cardinalis 

 cardinally ; 1 egg of Molothrus ater; 5 eggs (1 set) of Ammodramus 

 savannarum passerinus ; and 3 eggs (1 set) of Vireo bellii. 



Through G;* L. Gillespie, lieutenant-colonel of Engineers, U. S. 

 Army, was transmitted a gun-carriage, brought from the citadel of 

 Santo Domingo City. This carriage is of mahogany, and was probably 

 made by the Spaniards during the earlier days of their possession of 

 the island. It was presented in February, 1890, by Gen. Frederic 

 Lithgow, minister of war and the navy of the Dominican Republic, to 

 Capt. Nathan Appleton, of Boston, Massachusetts, by whom it was 

 presented to the National Museum. 



