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special interest were included in a collection made by Mr. E. W. Nelson in Arizona.   Mention of a portion of these specimens has been made in a previous report (See Museum Report, 1884, p. [[blank]]).   Among the skins received this half-year were two excellent examples of Abert's squirrel, and two of the Arizona squirrel, ([[underlined]] S. Aberti and S. arizonensis [[/underlined]]).   The collection also contained a badger and good specimens of the Coyote, wolf, antelope, mule deer, etc.

[[underlined]] Central America and the West Indies [[/underlined]].---From Mr. José C. Zeledon the Museum received a skin of a black jaguar ([[underlined]] Felis onca [[/underlined]]).   Among the spoils of the expedition of the U.S.F.Commission Str. "Albatross" to the Island of Cozumel, Yucatan, were two Peccary skins, two of the Coatimundi, [[underlined]] Nasua narica [[/underlined]], and one of an opossum, [[underlined]] Didelphys aurita [[underlined]].

[[underlined]] Other parts of the world [[/underlined]].---During this period, as in the years immediately preceding, the most important accessions of exotic mammals, were received from the proprietors of menageries, and dealers in live animals.   While the exact localities from which the specimens of this series were originally derived are seldom ascertained, they are not the less valuable for purposes of exhibition.

The specimens received from these sources are as follows:

From Messrs. Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson.---An albino fallow deer, [[underlined]] Cervus dama [[/underlined]].

From Mr. H. B. Everett.---A [[underlined]] Semnopithecus albocinereus [[/underlined]].

From Mr. Adam Forepaugh.---A tiger [[underlined]] one day old [[/underlined]].

From the Central Park Menagerie (through Mr. W. A. Conklin  A European badger,[[underlined]] Meles taxus [[/underlined]];  a water chevrotain, [[underlined]] Hyomarchus aquaticus [[/underlined]];  an axis deer, [[underlined]] Cervus axis [[/underlined]];  a Dorcas gazelle, [[underlined]] Gazella [[/underlined]]