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117 bird skins — Rio Preto Region, Brazil. 



5 mammals. 



6 mammal skulls — Trinidad. 

 29 bird skins. 



accessories for group of oil birds (eggs, nests, etc.) — Trinidad. 



63 mammals. 



18 mammal skulls. 



3 mammals (skins only). 



79 bats — Rio Preto Region, Brazil. 



1 1 fish — Junction of Rio Grande and Rio Sao Francisco, Brazil. 

 Collected by J. Friesser: 



18 bird skins — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Collected by W. J. Gerhard: 



24 dragonflies, bugs, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, beetles, etc. — 

 Northern Indiana and Northern Illinois. 

 Collected by S. E. Meek: 



I caiman — Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua. 



1 1 bats — Panama. 

 Collected by W. H. Osgood and M. P. Anderson: 



64 bats — Panama. 

 Purchases : 



39 Arctic birds — Bering Sea, Alaska and Siberia. 

 3,321 bird skins — United States. 



1 cardinal — IlHnois and Wisconsin. 



2 song sparrows — Illinois and Wisconsin. 

 I giant clam — Madagascar. 



1 albino crow. 



2 passenger pigeons — Dekalb County, Indiana. 

 FIELD, JOSEPH N., Expedition. 



599 shells — New Britain and German New Guinea. 

 FRIESSER, J., Chicago, IlHnois. 



I mammal skull. 

 GILLILAND, C. H., Trenary, Michigan. 



I specimen of an abnormal four day old kitten — Trenary, Michigan. 

 HANDY, COL. WM. J., Pasadena, California. 



I Venus flower-basket sponge — Philippine Islands. 

 HILL, A. L., Sterling, Illinois. 



4 plant lice — Rock River, Sterling, Illinois. 

 JEONESCN, PROF. THEO., Chicago, Illinois. 



I chimpanzee — Central Africa. 

 LEOTANL, FELIX, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. 



I snake — Near Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. 

 LILJEBLAD, E., Chicago, IlHnois. 



1 mantispa — Palos Park, Illinois. 

 10 Insects — Edgebrook, Illinois. 



2 wasps — Edgebrook, IlHnois. 

 4 bugs — Miller, Indiana. 



Mccormick, gyrus H., Chicago, IlHnois. 



2 beetles — Brazil. 

 MESSINGER, JOE, Chicago, Illinois. 



I albino mandril. 



