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Mammals — Concluded 
By Gift — Concluded 
G. Potter, Ottawa, 1 big brown bat (Eptesicm fuscus), found flying in house, 
Dee. 17, 1931. 
Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, 
3 skins of lemming, from Lake harbour, Baffin island, collected by J. D. 
Soper. 
National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, 4 skulls of black bear 
(subadult), from Waterton Lakes park, Alberta; 2 skulls of grizzly bear 
(subadult), from Waterton Lakes park, Alta.; 2 skins and 2 skulls of grizzly 
bear (young), from Jasper park, Alta. 
Hudson’s Bay Company, mammal skulls (2 otter, 7 mink, 1 marten, 1 muskrat, 
9 weasels) collected by W. Jefferys, Mistassini post, Que.; 20 small mammals, 
including 14 skins and 6 skulls (red squrrel, flying squirrel, grey chipmunk, 
weasel, meadow mouse, mink), and 1 long-tailed shrew in formalin; collected 
by F. McLeod, Woswonaby post, Que. 
By Purchase: 
Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, by pay- 
ment of bounty, 1 skin of very large black wolf, taken near Fort Reliance, 
N.W.T. 
By Exchange: 
Morris M. Green, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1 skin and skull of Alaska brown 
lemming (Lemmus trimucronatus alascensis), topotype. 
Stuart Griddle, Treesbank, Man., 2 skins and 2 skulls of pocket gopher (Thomomys 
talpoides rufescem ). 
Birds 
By Members of Staff: 16 specimens. 
By Gift: 
W. H. Bryenton, Herb lake, Man., skins of snowy owl, great horned owl, Richard- 
son owl, and pileated woodpecker. 
Department of Marine, Ottawa, 1 common loon, with nest and eggs, collected 
by Capt. John Hearn, C.G.S. Mikula, obtained from Eskimo, latitude 
60° 44' north, longitude 70° west. 
Dr. R. E. DeLury, Ottawa, 1 purple finch, 2 robins, 1 ruby-throated humming- 
bird, 1 white-breasted nuthatch, in the flesh, found dead at Central Experi- 
mental Farm. 
National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, 1 horned grebe in the 
flesh, killed at McDonald lake, Que.; 1 horned owl in the flesh, picked up 
by S. Hennessey, Ottawa; 3 whistling swans in the flesh, from Niagara Falls, 
Ont. 
R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, N.S., 1 set of eggs of spruce grouse. 
Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior, 1 little 
brown crane from mouth of Parry river, Arctic coast, 1 snowy owl from 
Gjoa haven, King William island, and 1 old-squaw duck from Bathurst 
inlet, collected by Major L. T. Burwash; 64 skins of birds from Lake har- 
bour, Baffin island, collected by J. Dewey Soper in 1930-1931; 3 skins of 
Ross goose from Chipewyan, Alberta, through John A. McDougal, district 
agent at Forth Smith, N.W.T. 
Prof. Wm. Rowan, Department of Zoology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 
4 skins of do witcher, Limnodromus griseus, from Alberta; 1 head of whistling 
swan. 
B. C. Lloyd, Davidson, Sask., 1 skin of hybrid willow ptarmigan x spruce grouse, 
taken near York Factory, Man., by Ven. Archdeacon R. Faries (described 
and illustrated in Annual Report, 1930, National Museun of Canada, 1932, 
page 89, Plate I). 
Frank Lake, Ottawa, 1 yellow-bellied sapsucker, in the flesh. 
Anonymous donor, Ottawa, 1 bluebird, in the flesh. 
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