REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALS 

 IN THE U, S, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



By Fbederick W. Tjsue, Curator. 



The accessions of the year have been of more than ordinary interest. 

 Among exotic mammals, the accession which should be mentioned first 

 is a collection of about ninety skius from Mt. Kiliiua-Njaro, East Africa, 

 made and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott. The series comprises numer- 

 ous antelopes, including an uudescribed species, (Cephalophus spadix 

 True), wart-hogs, rhinoceros heads, buffalo heads, and skins of various 

 smaller forms, such as squirrels, coneys, and ground rats. The natural- 

 ists attached to the United States Eclipse Expedition to Angola, Africa, 

 procured two fine skins of the Bush-buck, Tragelaphus gratus {?), and 

 some smaller mammals. The Marquis Doria forwarded to the Museum 

 a specimen of the exceedingly rare African rodent, Lophiomys imhausii, 

 and a hundred bats, in alcohol, for which an equivalent in North 

 American bats is to be returned. The trustees of the British Museum 

 presented 13 bats in alcohol. A small collection of beautifully prepared 

 skins of the small mammals of Hungary was presented by M. Louis 

 Molnar. A skin of an adult male lion, and a young moose, were 

 received from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 in exchange for other specimens. A skin of the Yaguarundi cat was 

 purchased from E. Gerrard, London. 



The group of Proboscis Monkeys, Nasalis larvatus, ordered from Mr. 

 C. F. Adams, of Champaign, Illinois, was received during the year. 

 Further reference to this group will be found on the next page. A 

 number of mounted mammals were purchased from E. Deyrolle, Paris. 



The American Museum of Natural History, New York, presented a 

 bust of the chimpanzee " Crowley," which formerly lived in the Central 

 Park menagerie. 



The most notable North American mammals received during the year 

 were : four Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis, from Wyoming, presented 

 by Mr. W. T. Hornaday ; and four Mountain Goats, Mazama montana, 

 obtained by Mr. G. B. Grinnell in British Columbia, These skins will 

 be made the basis of two groups. Mr. E. E. Thompson presented a 

 collection of small mammals of Ontario, Canada, including a series of 

 skins of a black variety of the Gray Squirrel. Dr. Stejneger collected a 



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