MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. / 



land), through Dr. Hans Gadow, has been kind enough to send in 

 exchange an important series of Hawaiian Honey Creepers, a 

 series which contains several species hitherto unrepresented in the 

 collection of the Museum, and also an especially valuable lot of 

 bones of the extinct Solitaire, Pezophaps solitarias, collected in 

 Rodriguez by Jenner in 1871. The skeleton as mounted for 

 exhibition by Mr. Nelson is shown on Plate 3. 



For a mounted specimen of the Almique, Solenodon cuhanus, 

 the Museum is indebted to the Havana Institute of Secondary 

 Education. Especial interest is attached to this specimen as the 

 label is in the hand of the distinguished Cuban zoologist, Dr. 

 Juan Gundlach. 



The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, through its Director, Dr. 

 W. J. Holland, has presented a plaster restoration of Dinohyus 

 hollandi, a remarkable giant pig from the Miocene of western 

 Nebraska. This model is shown in full relief and is the work 

 of Mr. Theodore A. Mills. Dr. Holland has also kindly sent in 

 exchange a fine series of fishes, one of the results of explorations 

 in British Guiana carried on by the Carnegie Museum under the 

 direction of Prof. C. H. Eigenmann. 



The Museum has received another valuable collection of fishes 

 from the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. These specimens are in an 

 excellent state of preservation and were captured in the Pacific 

 when Mr. Agassiz was in charge of the U. S. F. C. Steamer " Alba- 

 tross" during the cruise in the Tropical Pacific in 1899-1900 and 

 again in 1904-1905, Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific. 



The New York Zoological Society has continued its policy of 

 sending to the Museum specimens of reptiles, many of which, 

 after Mr. Nelson's skillful taxidermy, supply for exhibition pur- 

 poses most desirable dry mounts. Its donations this year, for 

 which the thanks of the Museum are tendered, include among 

 several others a striking example of the Green Boa, Corallus 

 caninus, from Surinam, and one of the Bushmaster, Lacheis mutus, 

 a most venomous snake from Trinidad. The skeleton of the 

 Bushmaster, prepared by Mr. Nelson, is shown with the mounted 

 skin. 



While engaged in anthropological work for the Peabody Museum 

 in South and Central America, Prof. W. C. Farabee and Dr. A. 

 M. Tozzer kindly procured for this Museum some zoological 



