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Accessions of Birds — Continued 
By gift , outside of collections made by members of staff : 
Dudley Dimoek, Grand Cascapedia, Quebec, 1 dovekie, in the flesh. 
Canadian National Parks Branch, Department of the Interior, 2 ducks (Jasper 
park). 
Dennis Ashby, Croyle, Duncan, Vancouver island, B.C., 1 ring-necked duck, 
2 European widgeon, 1 ruddy duck, 1 Clarke nutcracker (old mounted bird). 
Talbot Criddle, Treesbank, Manitoba, 1 goshawk in the flesh. 
Ed. White, Ottawa, 4 wings of greater snow goose. 
Stuart Criddle, Aweme, Manitoba, 1 screech owl, in the flesh. 
H. A. C. Jackson, Montreal West, Que., 1 pellet of snowy owl. 
Manley Miner, Kingsville, Ontario, 1 blue goose in the flesh, found dead at Jack 
Miner’s bird sanctuary. 
Wm. Macoun, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 1 great horned owl, in the 
flesh. 
Canadian National Parks Branch, 2 whistling swans, in the flesh, from Kingsville, 
Ontario. 
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1 flicker, from cape Wolstenholme, Hudson 
strait, collected July, 1925. 
Alice M. Smith, Owen Sound, Ontario, 1 Wilson thrush, in the flesh. 
Frank L. Farley, Camrose, Alberta, 1 bean goose, the first record of the species 
in Canada (Anser f abatis). 
H. Mousley, Montreal, 1 nest of rose-breasted grosbeak, from Verdun, Que. 
Ralph E. DeLury, Ottawa, 1 chickadee, in the flesh. 
Dr. L. H. Livingstone, Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, 4 snow geese, 
from Baffin island. 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Pangnirtung detachment, Baffin island, 2 sets 
birds’ eggs; 5 birds; sent by Corporal H. P. Friel. 
Canadian National parks, 1 golden eagle, in the flesh. 
Arthur English, St. Johns, Newfoundland, 1 short-eared owl, 2 ptarmigan. 
Jack Miner, Kingsville, Ontario, 1 red screech owl, in the flesh. 
Frederic H. Kennard, Newton Centre, Mass., 2 blue geese, from Clyde river; 
1 blue goose and 2 snow goose heads, from Eclipse sound, Baffin island. 
Garnet Wiggans, Bristol, Que., 1 great horned owl, in the flesh. 
By purchase: 
Allan Moses, Grand Manan, New Brunswick, 1 Kumlien gull, in the flesh. 
Allan Moses, Grand Manan, 1 male adult common cormorant. 
Arthur English, 27 Newfoundland ptarmigan skins, fresh salted. 
By exchange: 
From Arthur C. Bent, Taunton, Massachusetts, skins of dowmy young of dow- 
itcher, Pribilof sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, golden plover, Steller eider, 
spectacled eider, king eider, Pacific eider. 
Accessions of Reptiles and Amphibians: 
By members of staff: 
Clyde L. Patch (Pottageville and Hamilton, Ontario; Meach 
lake. Pink lake, and Burbidge, Quebec) 131 
E. M. Kindle, Tenaga, Quebec 2 
J. D. Leechman, Pink lake, Quebec 2 
Hamilton M. Laing, Huntingdon, British Columbia 1 
Harlan I. Smith, Usk and New Hazelton, B.C 11 
J. D. Soper, Val Marie, Saskatchewan 2 
W. J. Wintemberg, Tadoussac and Point aux Basques, Que . . 2 
Charles H. Young, Huntingdon, Smith falls, and Lihumption 
park, British Columbia 7 
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