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tion to the committee on classification and nomenclature of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, which spent three days in the divi- 

 sion, many members of the union availed themselves of the oppor- 

 tunity to study various specimens during the amiual meeting Avhich 

 was held at the Museum in April, 1914. 



Among ornithologists who conducted more or less extended re- 

 searches in the laboratory were Mr. W. deW. Miller and Mr. J. T. 

 Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History; Mr. R. C. 

 Murphy, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ; Mr. W. H. 

 Osgood, of the Field Museum of Natural History ; Mr. W. E. Clyde 

 Todd, of the Carnegie Museum ; Dr. Thomas Barbour, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoologj^; Mr. H. K. Coale, of Highland Park, 111.; 

 Dr. Jonathan DAvight, jr., and Mr. C. H. Rogers, of New York; Mr. 

 J. H. Fleming, of Toronto, Canada; Mr. Harry Highbee and Mr. 

 F. H. Kennard, of Boston, Mass ; Dr. L. C. Sanford, of New Haven, 

 Conn.; Mr. George Shiras, 3d, and Lord Percy of the British Em- 

 bassy, Washington ; and Mr. Otto Widmann, of St. Louis, Mo. The 

 collection of birds' eggs was consulted by Mr. H. H. Bailey, of 

 Newport News, Va. ; Mr. R. M. Barnes, of Lacon, 111. ; Mr. George 

 H. Lings, of Nyack, N. Y. ; Mr. J. Parker Norris, jr., of Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. ; Mr. Roswell S. Wheeler, of Oakland, Cal. ; and Mr. John 

 Williams, of Iowa City, Iowa. Access to the collection of skeletons 

 was granted to Mr. Loye Holmes Miller, of Los Angeles, Cal., and 

 Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of Washington. 



A large number of specimens were lent for study to institutions 

 and individuals as follows: Mr. F. M. Chapman, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History; Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd; Mr. R. C. 

 Murphy ; Dr. Thomas Barbour, and Mr. Outram Bangs, of the Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology ; Mr. H. S. Swarth, of the Museum of 

 History, Science, and Art, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mr. Joseph Grinnell, 

 of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of Califor- 

 nia; the Colorado Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colo.; Mr. 

 H. K. Coale ; Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, of Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mr. H. H. 

 Kopman, of the Conservation Commission, New Orleans, La.; 

 Dr. W. L. Sclater, of the British Museum of Natural History; 

 Dr. Josef Gengler, of Erlangen, Germany; and Mr. Frank Bond, 

 of Washington. 



Reptiles and hatrachians. — Mention has already been made of ma- 

 terial received from the Bureau of Fisheries, the Biological Survey, 

 and Prof. A. M. Reese. To Dr. J. C. Thompson, United States NaA^'-, 

 the division is indebted for a large number of specimens collected by 

 himself on the west coast of Mexico and in California, including all 

 of those on which was based his intensive study of the variation of a 

 species of gartersnake on the peninsula of Sausalito, published by 

 the Museum during the year. Several rare species were obtained by 



