Oct.  1896. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Director. 
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DIVISION  OF  MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS. 
COALE,  H.  K.,  Chicago. 
Old  piano,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
JAVA  CHICAGO  EXPOSITION  SYNDICATE. 
Musical  instruments,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
LINDSAY,  E.  D.,  Chicago. 
Calderarpa  or  harp  piano,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Industrial 
Arts). 
LYON  &  HEALY,  Chicago. 
11  musical  instruments,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
MEYER  &  SON,  C,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Iron  plate  piano,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
WESSELL,  NICKEL  &  GROSS,  New  York. 
Piano  movements,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
WORLD'S  COLUMBIAN  EXPOSITION,  Department  of  Ethnology. 
27  musical  instruments,  (transferred  from  Department  of  Anthropology). 
DEPARTMENT  OF  ORNITHOLOGY. 
(Accessions  are  by  gift  unless  otherwise  designated.) 
AKELEY,  C.  E.,  Field  Columbian  Museum. 
1  mounted  Ardetta  neoxena  Cory. 
AMERICAN  MUSEUM  OF  NATURAL  HISTORY,  New  York. 
9  bird  skins — Brazil,  Mexico,  Yucatan,  Guiana,  (for  examination). 
BRANDLER,  CHAS.,  Field  Columbian  Museum. 
2  birds:    Syrnium  nebulisum  and  Asio  wilsonianus. 
1  mounted  bird:    Accipiter  cooperi — Milwaukee,  Wis. 
CHRISTENSEN,  L.  A.,  Baldwin,  Wis. 
1  bird's  nest  made  of  twine. 
CORY,  C.  B.,  Boston,  Mass. 
23  bird  skins  and  1  nest — Florida. 
FIELD  COLUMBIAN  MUSEUM. 
Collected  by  Geo.  K.  Cherrie: 
2  mounted  birds:    Symphemia  semipalmata  and    Calidris  are?iaria — 
Indiana. 
38  bird  skins — Du  Page  Co.,  111. 
121  bird  skins,  37  species — Mississippi. 
229  bird  skins — Louisiana. 
609  bird  skins,  96  species — Texas. 
Nest  and  4  eggs  of  Tyrannus  tyrannies — Wolf  Lake,  111. 
20  bird  skins,  12  species — Wolf  Lake  and  South  Chicago,  111. 
32  mounted  birds,  20  species — Jackson  Park,  Hegewisch  and  WTorth,  111. 
14  bird  skins,  8  species— Wolf  Lake,  111. 
15  bird  skins — Worth  and  Glen  Ellyn,  111. 
36  mounted  birds — Illinois. 
22  bird  skins,  15  species — Indiana  and  Illinois. 
Collected  by  I.  N.  Travis: 
7  birds:    Laurus  argentatus  smithsonianus — Chicago. 
Nest  and  4  eggs  of  Poocaetes  granimi?ieiis — Whiting,  Ind. 
25  mounted  birds,  18  species —Whiting,  Ind. 
7  mounted  birds — Indiana. 
I  1  mounted  bird:   Strix pratinco la— Chicago. 
Purchases: 
8  birds— Illinois,  Indiana  and  Iowa,  (purchased  from  Lepmann  &  Heggie, 
Chicago). 
1  mounted  lynx  for  bird  group,  (purchased  from  W.  W.  Hart  &  Co.,  New- 
York). 
