68 EEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



" List of birds nesHng within the National Zoological Park. 



Mauy other creatures likewise fiud a natural home within these limits, and though 

 no systematic collection has yet been made, there has beeu observed during the sea- 

 son in the Park or its immediate vicinity the common woodchuck, the cotton-tail 

 rabbit, the Virginia opossum, and the flying squirrel. 



BOTANY OF THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



An examination of the flora has beeu made by Mr. W. Hunter, an employd of the 

 Park and a competent botanist, vs'ho received advice and assistance from Prof. Lester 

 F. Ward and Prof. W. H. Knowiton. The list of plants is necessarily incomplete, 

 owing to the fact that the observations did not commence until late in the season. 

 Excluding the trees a list of which has already beeu given, the following were noted: 



