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FIELD  COLUMBIAN  MUSEUM. 
Collected  by  George  K.  Cherrie: 
68  bird  skins  (16  species) — Knoxville,  Iov/a. 
38  bird  skins — Suburbs  of  Chicago,  111. 
504  bird  skins — West  coast  of  Florida. 
299  bird  skins — Pulaski  County,  111. 
2  bird  skins  :  Oreoxoptes  montanus — Corpus  Christi,  Texas. 
6  birds— Glen  Ellyn,  111. 
3  birds — Hegewish,  111. 
12  bird  skins — Lake  George,  111.,  and  Millers  Station,  Ind. 
Collected  by  I.  N.  Travis: 
7  mounted  birds — Illinois  and  Indiana. 
Collected  by  F.  M.  Woodruff: 
17  bird  skins  (14  species) — Illinois. 
FIELD  COLUMBIAN  MUSEUM. 
Collected  by  D.  G.  Elliot,  African  Expedition. 
Collection  of  296  specimens  of  birds,  126  species,  2  types — Somaliland  and 
Ogaden. 
Purchases: 
73  bird  skins  representing  25  species  and  sub  species  (purchased  from  R. 
S.  Williams,  Columbia  Falls,  Mont.) 
500  bird  skins,  227  species  and  sub-species  (purchased  from  H.  K.  Coale, 
Chicago,  111.) 
16  bird  skins,  1  violet  green  Cormorant,  1  Western  Goshawk,  1  West- 
ern Henslow's  Sparrow,  116  bird  skins — various  points  (purchased 
from  Chas.  K.  Worthen,  Warsaw,  111.) 
587  bird  skins,  representing  282  species  and  sub-species — Costa  Rica, 
C.  A.  1  mounted  bird,  American  Goshawk— Northern  Wisconsin 
(purchased  from  George  K.  Cherrie,  Field  Columbian  Museum,  Chi- 
cago, 111.), 
17  birds  in  flesh,  quail,  prairie  chickens  and  ducks  for  groups  (purchased 
from  Alf.  Russell  &  Co.,  South  Water  street,  Chicago,  111.) 
1  albinistic  quail,  mounted — Lavinia,  Tenn.  (purchased  from  T.  D.  Ran- 
dall &  Co.,  Chicago,  111.) 
1  hen  and  12  ducklings  in  flesh  for  group  (purchased  from  John  Mill- 
bauch,  Glen  Ellyn,  111.) 
15  North  American  bird  skins — various  localities;  2  snowy  heron,  mounted; 
1  Nelson's  ptarmigan,  mounted;  1  spotted  owl,  1  snowy  owl  (pur- 
chased by  C.  B.  Cory). 
1  bird  skin,  Western  Vesper  Sparrow — Montana  (purchased  from  E.  E. 
Thompson). 
1  mounted  willow  ptarmigan  for  snow  group  (purchased  from  Charles 
Brandler,  Field  Columbian  Museum,  Chicago,  111.) 
5  birds  in  flesh,  2  Colinus  virgianus,  3  Calliftepla  squainata  (purchased 
from  Lepman  &  Heggie,  Chicago,  111.) 
GAULT,  B.  T.,  Glen  Ellyn,  111. 
1  bird  nest  Merula  migratoria — Glen  Ellyn,  111. 
JONES,  ARTHUR  B.,  Chicago,  111. 
1  bird  skin,  Porzona  Carolina — near  Chicago,  111. 
1  nest  (in  situ),  Passer  domesticus — near  Chicago,  111. 
KAY,  MRS.  W.  V.,  Chicago,  111. 
34  mounted  birds  in  2  cases  (on  approval  for  purchase). 
KENKEL,  LEW7IS,  Chicago,  111. 
Nest  and  3  eggs  of  the  yellow  warbler,  Dendroica  aestiva. 
MORRISON,  GEO.  A.,  Fox  Lake,  Wis. 
6  sets  of  4  eggs  each  of  the  black  crowned  night  heron. 
2  nests  in  situ  of  the  black  crowned  night  heron. 
MEEK  S.  E.,  Field  Columbian  Museum,  Chicago,  111. 
1  bird  skin,  Western  red-tail  hawk — Petite  Lake,  Idaho. 
RYERSON,  M.  A.,  Chicago,  111. 
1  mounted  widgeon  duck — Iowa. 
