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NOTES FROM THE FIELD AND MUSEUM. 



MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE MUSEUM. 



The general museum occupies the larger part of the second floor of the 

 Libi/ary and Museum Building, the rest of the upper floor holding the 

 laboratories and lecture rooms of the Department of Zoology and Physiology. 

 The main museum hall has sixteen large cases and fotir smaller ones con- 

 taining collections of birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, marine invertebrates, 

 shells, insects, rocks, minerals and fossils. 



The collection of mounted birds, while not extraordinarily large, com- 

 prises specimens of all the common Michigan species and many of the rarer 

 ones. It occupies four of the large cases just mentioned and includes about 

 600 specimens. Among the less common species are four good specimens of 

 the Passenger Pigeon, two White Pelicans, a Brunnich's Murre (first record 

 for the state), a Parasitic Jaeger (the first record for Michigan), as well as 

 Holboell's Grebe, Northern Raven, and a fine Wild Turkey, taken in Clinton 

 County, in 1871. Some of the best specimens were mounted by the late 



