MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17 



REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



During the year, 837 specimens were received. 



The most notable accessions are two collections, the gift of Dr. 

 J. C. Phillips; both consist of well-made skins with skulls, and 

 are from regions previously poorly represented in this Museum; 

 the first, a series of 186 small mammals from Athabaska, and the 

 second, about 200 specimens collected by Mr. J. L. Peters in 

 Argentina. 



Other important additions are : — Skins and alcoholics from New 

 Mexico, California, and Victoria Land, (Col. J. E. Thayer) ; a col- 

 lection from the Uinta Mountains, Utah, (Dr. Theodore Lyman) ; 

 a collection from British East Africa, (Mr. C. P. Curtis); a skele- 

 ton of the European Beaver, skin and skull of the Florida Black 

 Bear, skull of Florida White-tailed Deer, collections from Arizona 

 and southern Texas, and twenty specimens especially selected 

 to fill lacunae; also a considerable series of bones from a Pleisto- 

 cene deposit near Palm Beach, Florida, (Dr. Thomas Barbour). 

 Single specimens or small series have been received from Messrs. 

 G. M. Allen, E. A. von Armin, A. M. Banta, W. E. Castle, 

 G. A. Holman, A. B. Howell, H. H. Johnson, R. C. Murphy, 

 George Nelson, G. K. Noble, A. S. Roamer, George Schwab, and 

 J. N. Sullivan. 



Exchanges have been made with the Queensland Museum and 

 with the B&le Museum. 



