116 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
sentecl a beautiful pair of mallards, an American golden-eye, and a 
green-winged teal, all sbot at Eastham, Mass. Other accessions are : 
a European goldfinch captured at the Charlestown navy yard 
Mr. George Mayo; a handsome specimen of the little blue heron in 
adult plumage, which was obtained on Chappaquiddick Island, near 
Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, April 14, 1904, and skins of the red¬ 
head and wood duck, from Mr. R. II. Howe, Jr. 
Mr. C. E. Brown has continued his work on the New England 
collection, adding some sixteen species, including Leach’s petrel, 
red-legged black duck, lesser scaup, Holboell’s grebe, and snowy owl. 
He has also prepared nine groups representing the robin, least fly¬ 
catcher, slate-colored junco, chipping sparrow, tree swallow, phoebe, 
bluebird, and black-capped chickadee. He has also remodeled the 
woodcock group and the groups prepared last season. 
To the New England mammals have been added the doe of the 
northern Virginia deer, shot by Mr. Brown at Moosehead Lake ; 
two deer heads from Aroostook County, Maine — one with abnormal 
antlers, the other a partial albino ; a gray fox from Kent, Connecti¬ 
cut ; meadow mouse from Moosehead Lake; and a little brown bat 
(Myoti% lucifugus) from Intervale, N. H., the last collected by Dr. 
G. M. Allen. The model of the white whale has been recolored 
and placed on the main floor. 
The Society has received a copperhead from the Blue Hills, from 
Mr. Roland Hayward ; a number of reptiles and batrachians collected 
in Rhode Island, from Mr. R. Id. Howe, Jr.; several reptiles from 
Mr. Owen Bryant; and a black snake from Mr. B. Grover. A large 
portion of the New England birds, and all of the mammals, reptiles, 
and batrachians have been relabeled. 
Insects, Crustaceans. 
Many of the members of the Society and of the Cambridge 
entomological club have contributed largely to the New England 
collection of insects. Dr. F. W. Russell, of Winchendon, has pre¬ 
sented 456 specimens of moths, among them many rare and inter¬ 
esting species, also a number of Hymenoptera and Diptera; Mr. L. 
W. Swett 85 specimens of moths and butterflies; Mr. C. A. Frost 
upwards of 275 specimens, representing several orders; Mr. Roland 
Hayward 22 species of Carabidae; Mr. A. P. Morse a number 
