38 ANNUAL EEPOKT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



The collection of Mammals has received the following addi- 



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tions during the past year : — 



By purchase. A fine Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchellii), 

 mounted by Roland Ward, of London; a Wolf (Canis lupus), 

 from Siberia, and a Virginia Deer (Cervus virginianus), from 

 Moosehead Lake, Maine, mounted by J. T. Clark ; and skins 

 of a Bear and Land Otter from Japan, furnished by Alan Owston, 

 of Yokohama. 



By gift. From Mr. F. L. Omstead, Jr., an alcoholic specimen 

 of a Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata), obtained at Biltmore, 

 North Carolina ; from Dr. L. C. Jones, the skin of a Black Squir- 

 rel (Sciurus niger), said to have been taken at Melrose, Mass., 

 October 28, 1894. 



Of birds the Museum has received the following : — 



By gift. From Mr. Thurlow Washburn, upwards of two hun- 

 dred skins, chiefly from New Jersey and Colorado ; from Mr. 

 George A. Dorsey, of the Peabody Museum, seven especially fine 

 and valuable skins from British Guiana ; from Mr. D. F. Turnbull, 

 of the Lawrence Scientific School, skins of a Tanager {Rham- 

 phocelus), a Manikin (Pipra), and a Jacomar (Gralbula) from the 

 island of Pedernales in the Delta of the Orinoco ; from Mr. W. 

 E. D. Scott, eight skins from Panama, collected by Mr. Matthew 

 H. Simons, U. S. N. ; from Mr. Walter Faxon, a mounted Black 

 and Yellow Warbler (Dendroica maculosa), from Revere, Mass. ; 

 and a mounted Black-throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica cmrules- 

 cens), and a nest of the Solitary Vireo (Vireo solitarius), from 

 Arlington, Mass. ; from Mr. R. T. Jackson, the skin of a young 

 Cuckoo (Coccgzus erythropthalmus), from Swampscott, Mass. 



By purchase. Thirteen skins representing twelve species of 

 Japanese birds, furnished by Alan Owston. 



Unfortunately Mr. Washburn's collection proved on examina- 

 tion to be in such bad condition, owing to the ravages of moths 

 and other insect pests, that only twenty-six specimens, represent- 

 ing twenty-two species, Could be retained. 



