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One skin of the rare [[underlined]]Picolaptes leucogaster[[/underlined]], from Micoachan, and one Ferruginous Pygmy Owl [[underlined]](Glaucidium phalaenoides)[[/underlined]], from Vera Cruz, Mexico. [[underlined]](Gift.)[[/underlined]]

[[underlined]]"Eclipse" Expedition[[/underlined]]. - 13 specimens, 8 species, from Africa. [[underlined]](Navy Department?)[[/underlined]]

From [[underlined]]Dennis Gale[[/underlined]], Gold Hill, Colorado. - four specimens, three species, from Gold Hill, Colorado. (Through Capt. Bendive). 

From [[underlined]]H. V. Henson[[/underlined]]. Hakodadi, Japan. - 427 specimens (181 species), from the island of Yesso (chiefly near Hakodadi), Japan. A specially valuable collection, containing a number of species entirely new to this collection, among them a pair of the great Japanese Eagle Owl [[underlined]](Pseudoptynax [[strikethrough]]Hackistorri[[/strikethrough]] ^[[blakistoni]]) [[/underlined]], the first ever received by any American

Transcription Notes:
The "Eclipse Expedition" mentioned on this page _might_ be from a cruise of the U.S.S. Pensacola, 1889-1890. A Library of Congress catalog record about this expedition is available at https://www.loc.gov/item/2005690241/ . Another is http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucla/mss/usecl165.pdf . A Mr. Orr is listed in an article, https://ia801901.us.archive.org/14/items/jstor-40666897/40666897.pdf , as ornithologist and ethnologist.