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[[underlined]] "Albatross" [[/underlined]] and the [[underlined]] Grampus [[/underlined]].  The collection is very valuable and interesting containing as it does a series of 44 specimens of [[underlined]] Puffinus borealis [[/underlined]] (which was only described a few years ago and up to the date a very rare specimen in collections), besides very large series of [[underlined]] Jaegers, Stercorarius parasiticus [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] pomarims [[/underlined]]) illustrating the enormous individual color-variations in these birds.  Nearly one half of the collection was received in the flesh and was prepared by the taxidermist, who also mounted a great many of them in excellent style for the exhibition series,  Only part of the collection was received during October, though for reasons detailed in the report for September first entered in the Museum register during the former Month.

[[strikethrough]] U.S. Fish Commission [[/strikethrough]]^[[Also]] 11 specimens of Bonaparte's Gull ([[underlined]] Larus philadelphia [[/underlined]]) from Woods Holl, Mass.

^[[checkmark]] [[double underlined]] C. W. Beckham, [[/double underlined]] Bardstown, Ky.  10 specimens, ^[[checkmark]] 6 species, Passerius birds, from Pueblo, Col.

^[[checkmark]] [[double underlined]] H. K. Coal^[[e]], [[/double underlined]] Chicago, Ill.  90 specimens, 85 species, from different parts of the world, but