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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Mar. 



being tj^pes from a recent critical revision of these families. 

 Throii2:li the same institution we have also received a first 

 series of duplicates of the mammals and birds, collected by 

 the writer, on the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, as per 

 previous agreement. 



Additions to the Department of Mammals. 



By Donation. 



Bachelder, C. E. (Harvard, '73), skeleton of ^rciomi/s monax, 

 from North Hampton, N. H. 



Carleton, M. M., 10 skins, 2 species ; 18 specimens, 6 species, 

 in alcohol, from Uinbala, Northern India. 



Garman, S. W., 1 Blarina brevicauda, from Cambridge. 



Pike, Nicolas, U. S. Consul, Mauritius, 3 teeth of a cetacean. 



Rawson, Gov. R. W., 1 Agouti, in alcohol, from the Barbadoes. 



Sanborn, F. G., 1 DidelpJiys Virginiana, from Smoky Creek, Car- 

 ter Count}', Ky. 



Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 (through the Smithsonian 

 Institution), 8 skins, 7 species, from Dakota and Montana. 



By Exchange. 



Linden, Charles, 22 specimens, 7 species, mostly in alcohol, 

 from Santarem, Brazil. 



Smithsonian Institution, 206 skins, about 40 species and varie- 

 ties, and 24 skulls, 20 species, of North American jSciuridce; 50 

 skins, 13 species and varieties, of North American Leporidce. 



Vienna Museum, 4 mounted skeletons and several skulls. 



By Purchase. 



2 skeletons and 7 skulls, 7 species, from Sweden. 



Additions to the Department of Birds. 

 By Donation. 



Carleton, M. M., 4 skins, 1 specimen in alcohol, a few eggs and 

 young birds in alcohol, and 24 nests, from Umbala, Northern India. 



Mount Auburn Cemetery Corporation, 1 swan, in flesh. 



PiNHERO, Dr., 59 skins of humming-birds, 13 species, from Brazil. 



Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 (through Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution), 122 skins, 54 species, and several sets of nests and eggs. 



Jackson, Dr. J. B. S., preparation of sternum and trachea of 

 swan. 



