I860.] 63 [Annual Report. 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM 

 DURING THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1869. 



Mammals and Comparative Anatomy. Skin of black-footed Kangaroo, 

 collected by Capt. I. E. A. Todd at King George's Sound, Australia, by Mr. Nath. 

 Wales. A large, white birch log, bearing marks of the teeth of the beaver, 

 and samples of "wood used by the beavers as food, etc., from Rangely Lake, Me., 

 by Mr. Luther Hills. A specimen of Vespertilio Carolina from Ashbumham, 

 Mass., by Mrs. Addison Howe. Five house mice, Eesperomys leucopus, in alco- 

 hol, from Hart's Location, N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Cranium and Atlas of 

 Felis from the Cape of Good Hope, by Dr. Edw. Gilchrist, U. S. N. A skel- 

 eton of Negress from Zanzibar, Africa, by Mr. Samuel V. Goodhue. Skull of 

 an albatross, Diomedea exidans, from the South Atlantic, by Dr. G. F. Waters. 

 An embryo spermophile from Arizona, by Capt. F. Dame. A young black 

 bear, $ , by Mr. Wm. T. Adams. Three fatty tumors from abdominal cav- 

 ity of domestic fowl, by Mr. P. S. Sprague. A specimen of the star-nosed 

 mole, Condylura cristata, from Brookline, by Mr. J. E. Cabot. A fine head with 

 antlers of Cervus virginianus, $ , from Northern Maine, by Messrs. C. D. and I. 

 H. Presho. A young male Prong-horn, Antilocapra americana, by the City of 

 Boston. 



Birds. Twenty-five specimens of birds, most of them mounted, from New- 

 tonville, by Mr. L. L Thaxter, being species needed to complete the Society's 

 New England collection. A large number of birds' skins from Central and 

 South America, by Mrs. Henry Bryant. Mounted specimen of a variety of 

 Pigeon, Columba livia, bred in Cambridge, by Mr. Edw. D. Harris. A small 

 bird skin from St. Domingo, by Mr. E. C. Ring. A bird from Hart's Location, 

 N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. A fresh specimen of Euddy Duck, Erismatura 

 iiibida, $ , from Halifax. Mass., by Mr. C. Cowing. Barred owl, Syrnium nebu- 

 losum from Auburndale, Mass., by Mr. Chas. 0. Bouve. Thirty-two birds' skins 

 from Equatorial America, by Prof. James Orton. A mounted specimen of GaU 

 linula galeata shot in Massachusetts, by Mr. E. A. Brigham. Skin of white- 

 winged cross-bill, $ , Ourvirostra leucqptera, from Cambridge, by Mr. W. W. 

 Dodge. A Pine Grosbeak, $ , Pinicola canadensis, from Brookline, by Mr. J. 

 E. Cabot. An owl, fresh, from North Brookfield, by Mr. Sam. Mixter. Eighty 

 specimens of seventy-six species of birds' skins, determined by Mr. Geo. N. 

 Lawrence, from Costa Rica and vicinity, by the Smithsonian Institution. A 

 young, unfledged owl, Bubo virginianus, from Brookline, by Mr. Arthur Smith. 



