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Accessions to Museum 
The bird collections have grown in a very satisfactory manner through 
the year, the accessions totalling 1,034 specimens. Among the most 
important accessions of the year is the final part of a collection made by 
J. D. Soper, in southwestern Baffin island, under the auspices of the North 
West Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior. This 
accession consists of one hundred and seventy birds and nearly as many 
eggs. Other officers of the North West Territories and Yukon Branch 
were also active in our behalf. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of 
valuable specimens from nearly inaccessible localities in northwest Canada, 
obtained by Major L. T. Burwash and Mr. A. E. Porsild. These materials 
fill some important distributional gaps in our collections. 
Accessions to the Zoological Collections 
Mammals received and catalogued 667 
Birds received and catalogued 1 , 050 
Amphibians and reptiles received and catalogued 129 
Mammals 
By Members of Staff: 
H. M. Laing, 125 mammals from southeastern B.C. 
Ian McTaggart-Cowan, 63 mammals from Newgate, B.C., 136 from Jasper park, 
and 86 from Banff park, Alta. 
Victor E. Gould, 64 from Churchill district, Man. 
P. A. Taverner, 6 from Churchill district, Man. 
C. L. Patch, 8 from Ottawa district. 
C. E. Johnson, 4 from Ottawa, 1 from St. Thomas, Ont. 
R. M. Anderson, 3 from Que. 
By Gift: 
Stuart Criddle, Treesbank, Man., 2 skins with skulls of pale flying squirrels, 3 
antlered skulls of northern white-tailed deer from Man., 1 skull of Rocky 
Mountain mule deer from Okanagan valley, B.C. 
W. E. Saunders, London, Ont., 2 hairy-tailed moles, 2 smoky shrews. 
Dr. Frank T. Shutt, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 1 albino Drummond 
meadow-mouse, from the Rev. Father Michel, O.M.I., Experimental sub- 
station, Good Hope, N.W.T. 
E. F. G. White, Ottawa, 1 mounted head of moose from N.S., 1 skull of red fox 
taken within city limits of Ottawa. 
T. E. Townsend, St. Brieux, Sask., 1 head of western white-tailed deer. 
Norman H. H. Lett, Ottawa, 1 mounted head of bull wapiti from Sask. 
Mrs. W. C. Hughson, Ottawa, 1 mounted head of moose from Que., 1 mounted 
head of wapiti (probably from Man.). 
Mrs. H. S. Arkell, Britannia Heights, Ont., 1 weasel, in the flesh. 
Major Allan Brooks, Okanagan Landing. B.C., 1 big-eared bat (Myotis evotis ). 
Ovila Lalande, Ottawa, 1 star-nosed mole, alive. 
Dr. G. M. Gorrell, Morrisburg, Ont., 2 little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus). 
Wm. II, Moore, Scotch lake, York county, N.B., 1 short-tailed shrew, 1 white- 
footed mouse, 1 red-backed mouse, 2 meadow-mice, 1 Cooper lemming 
mouse, 1 meadow jumping-mouse, 1 woodland jumping-mouse. 
C. B. Dawson, Ottawa, 1 skull of Barren ground bear, killed east of Great Slave 
lake, N.W.T., in summer of 1929. 
Guy H. Blanchet, Ottawa, skin and skull of Barren ground bear, killed near 
mouth of Coppermine river, Mack., in 1930. 
J. A. Munro, Okanagan Landing, B.C., skull of mountain sheep from Ashnola 
mountain, B.C. 
R. E. DeLury, Ottawa, 1 red squirrel, in the flesh. 
