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skin and skull of a mountain goat collected by Dr. C. D. Walcott in 

 Alberta, Canada; 48 bats collected by Dr. Paul Bartscli in Porto 

 liico ; and 4 skulls and 1 skin of fur seals from Lobos Island collected 

 by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, also deserve mention, as does a rostrum from 

 a beaked whale from Bogue Bank, N. C, donated by Mr. B. F. Hardi- 

 son, Grantsboro, N. C. In exchange 11 skins and skulls of North 

 American mammals not previously represented in the Museum were 

 received from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the skull of 

 a Stenoderma, from Porto Rico, (a bat supposed to be extinct) from 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



Birds. — While the large collection of Chinese birds received from 

 Eev. D. C. Graham, as already mentioned, has not been identified as 

 yet, nevertheless a cursory examination has shown that it contains 

 valuable additions both in species and series. Mr. B. H. Swales has 

 generously continued to add genera and species hitherto unrepre- 

 sented, in all 64 specimens including 9 genera and 28 species new to 

 the collection. Among the genera thus acquired are Asarcornis, an 

 oriental duck, Erythrohucco, a barbet, Cercococcyx, an African 

 cuckoo, and jStactocichla, an Oriental babbler. The donation also con- 

 tained 13 Antarctic birds and ten from the Azores, including five 

 forms or species new to the collection. Among the Chinese birds col- 

 lected by Sowerby there were four species new and from the Na- 

 tional Zoological Park a further addition of three species and one 

 genus {Xenorhynchus, a stork) . Still another genus and species new 

 to us, Phegomis mitcheUi, an Andean sandpiper, is due to the kind- 

 ness of Rafael Barros V., Los Andes, Chile. Further notable gifts 

 were four mounted birds from the Secretary of State, Charles E. 

 Hughes, a pair of " Huia " birds from the Manawatu Philosophical 

 Society, Palmerston North, New Zealand, and an egg of the Blue 

 Goose, Chen caerulescens, laid in captivity, new to the collection. 



Reptiles and hatrachians. — The two collections from China, 

 namely, 308 specimens from A. de C. Sowerby and 33 from Rev. D. C. 

 Graham, have already been alluded to. Both are highly interesting 

 and contain several novelties which will be described shortly. Of no 

 less importance is the collection of 124 specimens made by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott in Santo Domingo. One of the specimens representing a 

 new species of Lej)todactylus^ described during the year by Miss 

 Cochran, is very important, as it definitely establishes the occurrence 

 of this genus in the Antilles outside of Porto Rico, and thus dis- 

 poses of the theory of its having been accidentally introduced into 

 the latter island. Three si^ecimens belonging to the genus Liofelma^ 

 a gift of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand, was one of the 

 greatest desiderata of our collection. This toad, the only amphibian 

 inhabiting New Zealand, because of the doubt attached to its sys- 



