182 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



Rabbit Net. 



A. L. Siler, Ranch, Kane County, Utah. 15624. '85. (II) 



Feather Rope. 



A. L. Siler, Ranch, Kane County, Utah. 15624. '85. (II) 



Bark Canoe, Indian manufacture. 



Horatio Hale, Clinton, Ontario, Canada. 15625. '85. (II) 



Vicunia Wool, from Peru. 



George W. Bond, Boston, Mass. 15626. '85. (I) 



Whistling Swans, Olor columbianus, three specimens in the flesh. 



William Sohier, Swan's Island, North Carolina. 15627. '85. (V, A) 



Quartz Crystals (on quartzite) 2, from Mexico. 



W. S. George, Saint Louis, Mo. 15628. '85. (XIV) 



Iron Ore ("clayey), from Missouri. 



Joseph G. Clarkson, Arcadia, Mo. 15629. '85. (XIV) 



Limonite, pseudomorph after pyrite, halloysite impregnated with hematite, cuprite, 

 melaconite, chrysocolla, native copper, native silver, cerargyrite, and quartz, 

 from Arizona. 

 C. D. Walcott, U. S. Geological Survey. 15630. '85. (XIV) 



Stone Implement. A very fine polished celt, 13| inches long. 

 E. B. Johnson, Eufaula, Ala. 15631. '85. (Ill) 



African Ostrich, Struthio camelus, in the flesh. 



W. A. Conklin, superintendent Central Park Menagerie, New York. 15632. 

 '85. (VIII) 



Sculptured Foot Track. The original was cut from the rock in situ near Colo- 

 rado Springs. 

 Horace Beach, Prairie du Chien, Wis. 15633. '85. (Ill) 



Crude Petroleum. 



E. B. Price, Amargo, N. Mex. 15634. '85. (XVI) 



Stone Implements. 



James D. Houston, Hot Springs, Ark. 15635. '85. (Ill) 



Crystals. Sent for examination and returned. 



James D. Houston, Hot Springs, Ark. 15635. '85. (XIV) 



Kaolin. 



G. W. Watkins, Moriah, Essex County, N. Y. 15636. '85. (XIV) 



Silicate of Alumina, iron, lime, and magnesia. 



L. W. Johnston, Phoenix, Ariz. 15637. '85. (XVI) 



Stone Implements. Twenty-five specimens of leaf-shaped implements from Ken- 

 tucky, including scraper, flake, arrow and spear-heads, pestle, celts, and 

 grooved axes, from fields and rock shelters near Panther Creek, Hancock County. 

 Exchanged for publications. 

 J. B. Vickers, Lyonia, Hancock County, Ky. 15638. '85. (Ill) 



Bird Skins. Two hundred and twenty-six specimens, 96 species, chiefly from the 

 Palsearctic Region. A very valuable collection embracing several conspicuous 

 species new to the collection, besides others of great importance for purposes of 

 comparison, including Cassin's Bullfinch, Pyrrliula cassini, Siberia Turnstone, Are- 

 nariainterpres, Tringa suharquata, Spoonbill Sandpiper, Eurynorliynchus pygmceus, 

 Japan, Puffinus leucomelas, and Anscr ruficollis. 

 Henry Seebohm, London, England. 15639. '85. (V,A.) 



