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Abbott j)ersonally consisted of 210 skins, 71 alcoholics and skeletons, 

 4.^ eggs and one nest, among them four species or subspecies not pre- 

 ^iously in the Museum, besides several other rare species. Eggs of 

 Ncsoctites inicromegas^ a small Avoodpecker, and Todus angustho- 

 strls, the narrow-billed tody, proved new to the Museum. Hoy's New 

 South Wales collection, which we also owe to Dr. Abbott's generosity, 

 228 specimens, also contains many species new to or poorly repre- 

 sented in our series, since W'C have received but few Australian birds 

 in recent years. The addition of 99 skins representing 96 species all 

 new to the Museum collections, having been purchased through tlie 

 " Swales fund " has already been alluded to. They consist chief!}' of 

 old world babblers, thickheads (13 species), pigeons, cuckoos, wood- 

 peckers, barbets, pittas (5 species), kingfishers (12 species) and other 

 desiderata. Included in this lot were four genera new to the Mu- 

 seum; SerUoijJms (a genus of broadbills), Blelanocharis and Ped'do- 

 rhynclms (New Guinea and African flycatchers, respectively), and 

 Pacliyglossa.) a flowerpecker. Another large addition of 58 species 

 and subspecies not hitherto contained in our collection was obtained 

 in exchange with the American *Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. It consisted of 66G slrins, all from Colombia. Tlie first install- 

 ment of the Smithsonian African Expedition contained 126 speci- 

 mens collected by Mr. Raven in southern Africa, of which at least 9 

 species proved new to the Museum series. From the estate of Mr. 

 Allan H. Jennings there was received as a gift a collection of 1,298 

 skins, mostly from the United States, but with some desirable mate- 

 rial from the Bahamas, including several specimens of the rare Kirt- 

 land's warbler {Dendroica Mrtlandi). A transfer from the Bio- 

 logical Survey is particularly notcAvorthy because it contained a large 

 amount of anatomical material which supplies deficiencies in this 

 branch of the collection. It also contained 135 skins and 7 eggs from 

 France, collected by members of the Survey staff serving oversea 

 during the war. A series of 105 carefull}^ prepared specimens from 

 California given by Mr. Edward J. Brown, of Los Angeles, Califor- 

 nia, contained series of immature plumages of various species par- 

 ticularly wanted by the Museum. The expedition of Maxon and 

 Killip to Jamaica ^enriched the anatomical collection with 41 alco- 

 holics and skeletons, some of them highly desirable, such as the rare 

 Laletes oshwni, an aberrant member of the Anreo famil}'. Among 

 the smaller accessions there arc several which deserA'e mention, since 

 they include species new to our collection. Thus one by Mr. Francis 

 Harper, of the Biological Survey, includes the type of a new sub- 

 species of hedgesparroAV from France, and Colonel Wirt Robinson, 

 I^. S. Military Academy. West Point, New York, a skin of Althurus 

 scitidus, a long-tailed hummingbird from Jamaica. 



