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[[double underlined]]C. W. Beckham,[[/double underlined]] Washington, D.C., 219 specimens, 53 species, from Southwestern Texas. This is an extremely interesting collection which both on account of its excellent preparation and the extensive series of many of the rarer birds hitherto represented in the museum by a few specimens only, may be regarded as one of the most valuable accessions received of late. (Gift).

[[double underlined]]Lieut. H. C. Henson,[[/double underlined]] U.S.A., Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 32 specimens, 10 species. A very valuable and interesting collection containing, among others, a fine ^ [[adult]] specimen of [[underlined]] Trohon ambiguus[[/underlined]], a series of ten [[underlined]]Corous cryptoleucus[[/underlined]], and four [[underlined]]Falco fusco-caerulescens[[/underlined]]. (Gift).

[[double underlined]]Bergen Museum[[/double underlined]], Bergen, Noway, 75 specimens, 39 species, mostly from Western Norway. Among these may be mentioned a series of eight Eiders ([[underlined]]Somateria mollissima[[/underlined]]) as of special interest as offering a good material for comparison with the North American forms. A specimen of a [[underlined]]Leucosticti,[[/underlined]] from Siberia, is also of particular interest. (Exchange).

[[double underlined]]Wm. Brewster[[/double underlined]], Cambridge, Mass., 3 specimens, 3 species, vis. a Green Heron from Lower California; a specimen [[underlined]]Aimophila sonorana[[/underlined]] nov. spec.; and an [[underlined]]Amphispiza[[/underlined]]