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[[underlined]] dorcas [[/underlined]];  a young fallow deer.

From Mr. W. T. Hornaday.---A [[blank space]] Damalis pygarga; a baboon, [[underlined]] Cynocephalus anubis [[/underlined]].

From the Philadelphia Zoological Garden (through Mr. A. E. Brown).---A coypu rat, [[underlined]] Myopotamus coypu [[/underlined]];  two kangaroos.

From Mr. [[blank space]] Dobin.---A Water Bock, Kobus [[underlined]] ellipsiprimnus [[/underlined]].

Mr. C. G. H. Lloyd presented a series of skins of Tasmanian mammals, which unfortunately, however, arrived in the Department in very bad order.

AQUATIC MAMMALS.

[[underlined]] Seals [[/underlined]].---Only a small number of seals were added to the collection.   Chief among those are the Californian Sea-lion and Sea-elephants collected by Mr. Chas. H. Townsend on the coast of California.   A young Otary, O. jubata, from the coast of Peru, was received from Dr. Wm. H. Jones, U.S.N.

Cetaceans.---The most important cetacean received during this period was a spotted dolphin from Pensacola, Fla., believed to be identical with Gray's[[underlined]] Prodelphinus doris [[/underlined]], which was obtained for the Institution by Messrs. Warren & Co., fish dealers, of Pensacola.   An account of this valuable specimen will be found in the report for 1884, p. [[blank space]].

A second specimen of the Pygmy Sperm whale, [[underlined]] Kogia breviceps [[/underlined]], a male, was received through Mr. J. J.? (R) Hobbs, keeper of Kitty Hawk Life-saving Station, N. C.   The skull of one of four Atlantic Right whales, [[underlined]] B.cisarctica [[/underlined]], captured off Southampton,