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from the common type of color found in the species, being 
of a bright orange-yellow throughout. 
Two specimens of the hawk-headed caique {Deroptyus ac- 
cipitrinus), one of the rarer South American parrots, were 
purchased on the 6th and at the same time a trumpeter 
crane, which was at first registered as Psophia viridis, but 
which now appears to me to be P. obscura, PELZELN, a spe- 
cies said to inhabit the south bank of the lower Amazon 
and never before contained in our Garden. 
Several specimens vof Amblystoma tigrina, one of the 
largest and most widely distributed of American amphib- 
ians, were received on the 15th from Missouri. On the 
16th a young two-spotted paradoxure {Nandinia hinotata) 
from Liberia, was presented by Mr. George C. Goss, of Phil- 
adelphia. 
On the 24th of August Mr. Fred. Moesler returned from 
Europe, bringing as usual a number of birds for the collec- 
tion. Among them were a male and female of the grand 
eclectus {Ecledus roratus), two Patagonian conures (Conurus 
patagonus), two red-headed weaver birds {Foudia madagascar- 
iensis), the paradise weaver ( Vidua paradisea), the pin-tailed 
weaver {Vidua principalis), the green waxbill (Estrelda for- 
mosa) of India, and De Filippi's meadow starling {Trupialis 
defillippii) from the Argentine republic. A number of other 
species not readily* procured in this country were also in- 
cluded. 
A black tanager {Tachyphonus melaleucus), of South 
America, was purchased on the 1st of September, and was 
shortly followed by another member of the same group, 
the yellow-fronted euphonia {Euphonia affinis), from Vera 
Cruz. 
On the 24th of September, Mr. R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy, 
deposited in the Garden six Eskimo sledge dogs which had 
survived out of the team used by him on his journey to the 
north coast of Greenland last year. These dogs were pro- 
cured by Mr. Peary from the Eskimos of Whale Sound, 
about latitude 78° north, and are probably the only spe- 
cimens of their type which have been publicly shown in 
