82 Vertebrate Palceontology — By Gift 



Dr. C. H. TOWNSEND, New York City. 



14 Skins of rare and interesting birds from the Hawaiian Islands. 

 E. H. WHITE, New York City. 



1 Lory, in the flesh. 



By Exchange 



2 Masked Bob-white from Mexico; 1 Gull-billed Tern and 1 Mayan 



Horned Owl from eastern Mexico; 57 small birds, mostly from 

 Costa Rica; 14 birds from various localties ; all skins. 1 Virginia 

 Rail, in the flesh. 10 sets of eggs of North American birds. 



By Purchase 



155 Skins from China; 46 skins from Siam ; 87 skins from New 

 York State ; 65 skins, 29 nests and 66 eggs from Panama ; 14 

 skins of large birds from the Arctic regions ; 2 Kiwis from New 

 Zealand {Apteryx australis and A. haasti) ; 1 egg of sEpyornis 

 from Madagascar ; I skin of Nyctibius from Nicaragua. 



Through Museum Expeditions 



342 skins and 2 sterna from Borneo, Celebes, Formosa, etc. ; 200 

 skins and a number of nests and eggs from northwestern Arctic 

 America; 111 skins from Yucatan and Vera Cruz; 116 skins 

 from Panama ; 11 Rails, in the flesh, from Connecticut. 



DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY 



By Gift 



SENCKENBERG MUSEUM, Frankfurt-a-Main, Germany. 



Complete skeleton of Mystriosaurus, a marine crocodile of the Jurassic 

 Period, fromHolzmaden in Wurttemberg. 

 Master CHARLES CARROLL THOMAS, New York City. 



1 Mastodon Tooth. 

 E. C. WATERS, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Humerus of large Elk found in glacial drift at Brantford, Ontario. 



By Exchange 



MUSEO DE LA PLATA, Argentine Republic. 



Series of casts of extinct South American mammals, including the 

 skeleton of Toxodon and skull of Onohippidium. 

 UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN, Germany. 



Skeleton, uncrushed and nearly complete, of Opkthalmosaurus, an 

 Ichthyosaurian marine reptile of the Jurassic Period. 



By Purchase 

 Partial skeleton of a fossil reptile (? Dinosaur) from the Triassic > 

 shales of the Newark formation at Fort Lee, N. J. 



