Annual Report.] G4 [May 5, 



Birds' Nests and Eggs. Ninety-seven specimens of seventy-two species 

 of birds' nests and one hundred and forty-five specimens of fifty-seven species 

 of eggs from various parts of North America, selected by Dr. T. M. Brewer 

 with a view to complete the Society's collection, by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. Seventy species of North American eggs, represented by fifteen hundred 

 and ninety-eight specimens, collected by Dr. Henry Bryant, by Mrs. Bryant. 

 Twelve specimens of six species of eggs, by exchange with Mr. C. M. Jones, 

 North Madison, Ct. Egg laid by 9 canary paired with $ linnet, by Mr. J. 

 Baird. Eighteen nests of birds containing eggs collected by Geo. Welch of 

 Lynn, eighty-three specimens of forty-six species of European birds' eggs, and 

 nest of Eriocnemis Luciani from the eastern slope of Pichincha, S. A., collected 

 by Dr. E. Coues, by Dr. T. M. Brewer. 



Reptiles. Eggs of the black snake, Bascanion constrictor, from Lexington, 

 by Mr. Chas. A. Wellington. Ten specimens of salamanders, in alcohol, by 

 Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Four saurians from Madeira, by Dr. Francis H. Brown. 

 Five reptiles from Texas, by Mr. C. P. Dillaway. Two snakes in alcohol, from 

 Baltimore, by Mrs. R. A. and E. M. Howard. Box-tortoise, Cistudo Carolina, 

 from North Wrentham, Mass., by Miss Abbie H. C. Hills. Rattlesnake, Cruta- 

 lus dwissus, from Milton, Mass., by Mr. Arthur Sias. A specimen of Diadophis 

 punctatus from Phillips, Me., by Mr. Luther Hills. Three saurians from Ari- 

 zona, by Capt. F. Dame. An Anolius carolinus with bifurcation of the pos- 

 terior extremity, from South Carolina, by Dr. Geo. F. Waters. 



Fishes. A sword of the sword-fish, Xiphias gladius, by Dr. H. I. Bowditch. 

 Twenty-two fishes from Madeira, by Dr. Francis H. Brown. Two fishes belong- 

 ing to the genus Ostracion from the Bahamas, by Mr. Otto Cuntz. One Eemora 

 from the Gulf of Mexico, by Mr. C. P. Dillaway. A Harpoon float made from 

 the stomach of the Black-fish, by Capt. N. E. Atwood. A Sygnathus in alcohol, 

 from Cohasset, by Dr. S. Kneeland. The sixth spine of the dorsal fin of a 

 sword-fish, Histiophorus sp., obtained forty miles Avest of Cape St. Lucas, by 

 Mr. Caleb Howland, with a pencil sketch of the animal, by Mr. H. F. Copeland. 

 A mass of eggs of Cyclopterus lumpus, by Mr. D. F. Carlton. A plank of south- 

 ern pine perforated by, and containing a portion of, the sword of the sword-fish, 

 Histiophorus, from the side of ship Pocahontas, by the owners, Messrs. Foster, 

 Waterman & Co. Specimens of Amblyop>sis from Mammoth Cave, Ky., by Mr. 

 S. H. Scudder. A small fish, said to have been taken from the stomach of a 

 dolphin, on the passage of the Brig Abby, Capt. W. H. Lewis, from Cienfuegos 

 to Boston, by Capt. H. Merrill. 



Insects. Several insects from Mexico, and two species of butterflies from 

 the Philippine Islands, by Dr. S. Kneeland. A prepared section of the pupa of 

 Samia Cecropia and two specimens of Mitremyces cinnabarinum from Medford, 

 by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Twenty-five insects and myriapods from Madeira, by 

 Dr. Francis H. Brown. A living specimen of Mygcde fasciata from Calcutta, 

 by Mr. Wm. E. Baker. Ten species of Insects from Texas, by Mr. C P. Dilla- 



