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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Popular name. 



Scientific naive. 



Wild black cherry . 



"Witch-hazel 



riowering dogwood 



Black gum 



Peraimmon 



Bed ash 



Sassafras 



Slippery elm 



American or white elm 



Blackberry 



Ked mulberry 



Buttonwood or plane tree 



White heart hickory 



Pignut hickory 



Swamp hickory 



Black walnut 



Butternut 



Kiver or red birch 



Hornbeam or water beech . . . 



Hop hornbeam 



White oak 



Post oak 



Chestnut oak 



Ked oak 



Scarlet oak 



Yellow barked or black oak 

 Piu or swamp Spanish oak.. 



Spanish oak 



Black jack or barren oak — 



Willow oak 



Chestnut 



American beech — 



Black willow 



Eed cedar 



Pitch pine 



Jersey or scrub pine 



Yellow pine 



AVhite pine 



Primus seroH7ia, Ehrh.. 



Hamamelig Tirginiana, L. 



Cornug Florida, L. 



Nyssa sylvatica, Marsh. 



Diospyroa Virginiana, L. 



Fraxinvs pvhcscemt, Lam. 



Sassafras officinale, iSTees. 



Ulmus fulva, Michx. 



VTmus Americana, L. 



Geltis occidentalis, L. 



Morus rubra, L. 



Platanus occidentalis, L, 



Carya tomentosa, Nutt. 



Carya porcina. Nutt. 



Carya amara, Nutt. 



Juglans nigra, L. 



Juglans cinerca, L. 



Betula nigra, L. 



Garpinus Caroliniana, Walt. 



Ostrya Tirginica, Willd. 



Quercus alba, L. 



Qucrcus stellata, Wang. 



Quercus prinus, L. 



Qucrcus r^ibra, L. 



Quercus coccinea, Wang. 



Quercus coccinea, Wang, var. tinctoria. Gray. 



Quercxis palustris, Du Koi. 



Quercus falcata, Michx. 



Quercus nigra, L. 



Quercus Fhcllos, L. 



Gastanea sativa, Mill, var. Americana, Gray. 



Fagus fcrruginea, Ait. 



Salix nigra, Marshall. 



Juniperus Tirginiana, L. 



Pinus rigida, Miller. 



Pinus inojis, Ait. 



Pinus mitis, Michx. 



Pinus strobus, L. 



ORNITHOLOGY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



This region has long been known to be, because of its seclusion and natural ad- 

 vantages, one of the favorite nesting grounds for the birds that visit the District of 

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

 thology, has made the special report Avhich 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 haunt of our native birds. A section which has long been known to be the chosen 

 home of birds and animals in a state of nature would seem to be a peculiarly fitting 

 abode for them in a state of captivity. It is certain that neither within the District 

 nor in the region immediately about 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 has long been familiar to every bird collector who has ever made 

 Washington his headquarters, and probably no area of equal size has furnished so 



