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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Popular name. 



Wild black cherry 



AV itch-hazel 



Flowering (logwood 



JUurk gum 



I'tTMiiumon 



Kod ash 



Saosafras 



Slippery elm • 



Anieriran or white elm 



I?la<'kb»'rry 



Ked luulIxM rv 



Button wood or ])]ane tree — 



White heart hickory 



rigmit hickory 



Swamp hickory 



Black -walnut 



Butternut 



River or red birch 



Hornbeam or water beech . . 



Hop honibeam 



"White oak 



Post oak 



Chestnut oak 



Red oak 



Scarlet oak 



Yellow barked or black oak 

 Piu or swamp Spanish oak . . 



Spanish oak 



Black jack or barren oak — 



W'illow oak 



Chestnut 



American beech 



Black willow 



Red cedar 



Pitch pine 



Jersey or scrub pine 



Yellow pine 



■\Vhite pine 



Scientific naa-o. 



Prunui serotina, Ehrh.. 



llamamelis Tirginiana, L. 



Cornus Florida, L. 



Nyssa gylratica. Marsh. 



Diospyros Tirginiana, L. 



FraxinnK pubegcens. Lam, 



Sassafras officinale, Noes. 



Dlmvs/nlva, Michx. 



Ubnus Americana, L. 



Oeltis occidentalin, L. 



Moms rubra, L. 



riatanus occidenlalis, li. 



Carya tomentosa, Nutt. 



Caryaporcina. Nutt. 



Carya amara, Nutt. 



Juglans 7iigra, L. 



Jiiglans cinerea, L. 



Betula nigra, L. 



Carpinus Caroliniana, "Walt. 



Ostrya Tirgiiiica, Willd. 



Quercus alba, L. 



Quereus stellata, "Wang. 



Quercits prinits, L. 



Quercus rubra, L. 



Quercus coccinca, "Wang. 



Querctis coccinea, "Wang, var. tinctoria. Gray. 



Qticrcvs palustris, Du Roi. 



Quercus falcaia, Michx. 



Quereus nigra, L. 



Quercus Pliellos, L. 



Castanea sativa. Mill, var. Americana, Gray. 



Fagusferruginea, Ait. 



Salix nigra, Mar.shall. 



Juniperus Yirgi7uana, L. 



Pinus rigida. Miller. 



Pinus inoi>s, Ait. 



Pinus mitis, Michx. 



Pinus strobus, L. 



ORNITHOLOGY OK THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



Tlii.s region lias long boon known to be, becanso of its .soclusion and n.itural ad- 

 vantageH, one of the favorite nesting grouuds for the birds tliat visit the District of 

 Columbia. At my request Mr. H. W. Henshaw, a well-known authority in orni- 

 thology, has made the special report which follows: 



"For many reasons the situation of the site of the National Zoological Park is seen 

 to be a wise one, and from no point of view do its advantages appear greater than as 

 a hannt of our native birds. A section which has long been known to bo the chosen 

 liomo of birds and animals in a state of nature would seem to bo n peculiarly fitting 

 abode for them in astat*- of captivity. It is certain that neither within the District 

 nor in llu> region innnediately al)out it is there a spot which is resorted to by such 

 numbers of birds, nor one where the rarer migratory species can so certainly be found. 

 The park region lias long been familiar to every bird collector who has ever made 

 Washington bis headquarters, and ])robably no area of eciual size has furnished so 



