216 RERORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



German Carp, Cyprinus carpio, and Lake Whitefisii, Coregonus clupeiformis. Fresh 

 specimens from the Central Station. 

 U. S. Fisn Commission. 16091. '85. (VII) 



Bird Skins. Two hundred and fifty-nine specimens, 100 species, from Wheatland, 

 Iud. 

 Robert Ridgway, U. S. National Museum. 16092. '85. (V,A) 



Brook Silverside, Labidesthes sicculus (alcoholic). For name. 

 T. Berwick Legare, Camden, S.C 16093. '85. (VII) 



Shells. One hundred and forty-four specimens from a mound at Old Enterprise, 

 Fla., including shells, old fragments of fish and mammalian bones, fish-scales, 

 fragments of glass found 3 feet below the surface, and a specimen of shell marl. 

 William H. Dall, U. S. Geological Survey. 16094. '85. (Ill) 



Rose-breasted Grossbeak, Zamelodia ludoviciana $ . Head, wing, and tail. For 

 identification. 

 Fred. C. Green, Marion, Iowa. 16095. '85. (V, A) 



Pottery and Clay Pipe; three fragments of the former. Also a clay pipe and stem 

 of a clay pipe. From an Indian mound in Montgomery County. 



E. II. Vaughan, Roanoke, Va. 16096. '85. (Ill) 



European Whitefish, Coregonus albula (3), (alcoholic) ; from Baland and Talender 

 Lakes, Prussia. 

 Max von dem Borne, Berneuchen, Germany. 16098. '85. (VII) 



Marine Invertebrates. Four boxes of alcoholic specimens collected by U. S. Fish 

 Commission on the east coast of the United States. 

 Prof. A. E. Verrill, New Haven, Conn. 16099. '85. (XI) 



Blue-bird, Sialia azurea, from Arizona. A species but recently added to the North 

 American fauna. 

 Lieut. Harry C. Benton, U. S. A., Fort Huachuca, Ariz. 16100. '85. (V, A) 



Birds. Seven hundred and nine specimens (nearly 380 species), most of them 

 mounted, representing principally game-birds and domestic poultry. Several 

 species of Pkasianida) new to the collection. 

 Department of Agriculture. 16101. '85. (V, A) 



Stone Implements : An arrow-bead and spear-head from West Virginia, a polished 

 celt from Belmont County, Ohio, a grooved axe from Washington County, Penn- 

 sylvania. Also a box of human bone-dust (?) from a mound at Monndsvi I le, W. Va. 



F. J. Le Moyne Hupp, Wheeling, W. Va, 16102. '85. (Ill) 

 Minerals. 



F. J. Le Moyne Hupp, Wheeling, W. Va. 16102. '85. (XIV) 



Fossils, Bhynchonella copax (5) and Orthys lynx (23). Hudson River Group. Probably 

 collected in Southern Ohio or Northern Central Tennessee. 

 F. J. Le Moyne Hupp, Wheeling, W. Va. 16102. '85. (XII, A) 



Peccary, Dicotyles tajacu. Three skins from Fort Mcintosh, Tex. 



Dr. John S. Billings, U. S. A.; Army Medical Museum. 16103. '85. (IV) 



Peccary, Dicotyles tajacu. One male skeleton from Fort Mcintosh, Tex. 



Dr. John S. Billings, U. S. A.; Army Medical Museum. 16103. '85. (VILI) 



Python, P. molurm, Gray (7'. bivittatus, Scliy.), in the flesh. 



Zoological Society of Philadelphia. 16104. '85. (VIII) 

 Bbndire's Thrasher, Harporhynchus bendirci. Adult and young. The young plum- 

 age of this species hitherto unrepresented in the collection. Collected by Dr. 

 Charles Carter at Sacaton, Pinal County, Ariz. 

 Warren Carter, Wallingford, Ariz. 16105. '85. (V, A) 



