Gifts to the Museum of Natural History. 



May, 1907— May, 1908. 



Department of Geology. 



Professor F. B. Loomis of Amherst College has given a collection of 47 fossils- 



from South Dakota and Wyoming, and has secured with funds provided 



by the museum for that purpose a collection of Miocene vertebrate fossils 



from Nebraska and Wyoming, 

 Fred Merchant. Specimen of garnetiferous mica schist from Roxbury, Conn. 

 William Orr. Collection of 26 geological specimens from New Harbor, Maine. 



Collected in July, 1907. 

 W. T. Parker, M.D. Collection of minerals and rocks. 

 Harry Steel. Quartz crystals on mica schist. 



Department of Zoology. 



Miss Emily B. Adams. Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), Wilbra- 

 ham. 



William Dearden. Bluebird (Sialia sialis), Agawam. 



Mrs. George C. Ewing, Enfield, Mass. Egg of Australian emeu (Dromaeus 



novae-hollandiae) ; and egg of ostrich (Struthio camelus) from Cape Town. 

 John A. Hall. Section of Puget Sound (Washington) fir tree pile showing 



borings of Teredo navalis. 

 Victor O. Huebner, Amsterdam, N. Y. Broad-necked prionus (Prionus lati- 



collis) from Amsterdam, N. Y. 

 Professor F. B. Loomis, Amherst College. Collection of 43 sea shells. 

 Robert O. Morris. 



Water shrew (Sorex albibarbis), Springfield. 



Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus), Mt. Greylock. 



Big-tailed shrew (Sorex macrurus) , Tolland. 



Common long-tailed shrew (Sorex personatus) , Mt. Greylock. 



Northern pine mouse (Microtus pinetorum scalopsoides) , Springfield. 



Woodland jumping mouse, pair (Napaeozapus insignis), Tolland. 



Canadian white-footed mouse (Peromyscus canadensis), Mt. Greylock. 



Eastern varying hare (Lepus americanus virginianus) , Southampton. 



Red bat (Lasiurus borealis), Southampton. 



Gray- cheeked thrush (Hylocichla aliciae), Springfield. 



Chimney swift (Chaetura pelagica), Wilbraham. 



Pine siskin (Spinus pinus), Springfield. 



Tennessee warbler (Helminth ophila peregrina) , Springfield. 

 Nighthawk (Chordeiles virginianus), Springfield. 

 Alder flycatcher (Empidonax traillii alnorum), Hampden. 

 Miss Alice Southworth, Southern Pines, N. C. Collection of 104 bird skins, 

 also nests and eggs. 



H. B. Spencer, Mt. Tom. Copperhead snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) , Mt. 

 Tom. 



Miss Eleanor A. Wade. Shell of oyster. Pine Orchard, Conn. 

 Department of Botany. 



Mrs. Fred M. Flagg has given for her father. Dexter Snow, his collection of 

 foreign ferns. 



