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fund, came to a close during the past year. The Abbott fund also 

 financed in part the continuance of the Panamanian ornithological 

 survey by Dr. A. Wetmore and his assistant, W. M. Perrygo. The 

 Colombian collection comprised 1,073 bird skins, 9 skeletons, and 8 

 eggs; the Panamanian, 675 skins, 9 skeletons, 5 alcoholics, 9 eggs, 

 and 1 nest. Worthy of mention this year are the 379 bird skins from 

 Mozambique received from Donald W. Lamm, the gift of 675 skins 

 of birds from Colombia by Father Antonio Olivares, and the presenta- 

 tion by the Musee du Congo Beige, Tervueren, of 2 specimens of the 

 Congo peacock, Afropavo congensis. The E. J. Brown bequest pro- 

 vided funds for the purchase of 60 bird skins from the Algerian 

 Sahara. From the Arctic Health Research Center the Museum re- 

 ceived by transfer 302 skins of birds from northern Alaska which 

 had been collected by Dr. Laurence Irving and his assistants. 



A large collection, comprising 1,165 reptiles and amphibians col- 

 lected by Dr. R. E. Kuntz in Egypt and adjoining countries, was 

 received from the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, and 75 reptiles 

 and amphibians from Mount Kinabalu, northern Borneo, were trans- 

 ferred to the Museum from the Army Medical Service Graduate 

 School. Types and paratypes of new forms of salamander, toad, and 

 snake were received, respectively, from M. B. Mittleman, Ottys San- 

 ders, and W. Auffenberg. 



The generous gift of 16,417 fishes from eastern United States by 

 Dr. E. A. Lachner, associate curator, represents the largest single 

 accession received by the division of fishes during the year. Dr. 

 Lachner, with the assistance of William T. Leapley, also obtained 

 more than 15,000 fishes, as well as crustaceans, insects, amphibians, and 

 reptiles, in the southeastern States. As exchanges there were ob- 

 tained from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, through William 

 C. Schroeder, 104 holotypes, cotypes, and paratypes of fishes; from 

 Dr. George Moore, Oklahoma A. & M. College, 5,115 named fresh- 

 water fishes from the Arkansas and Red Rivers; from Dr. J. J. 

 Hoedeman, Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam, 11 paratypes of 3 West 

 Indian species; from Dr. N. B. Marshall, British Museum of Natural 

 History, 5 paratypes ; ;md from Drs. J. Bohlke and John C. Briggs, of 

 Stanford University, 7 paratypes of new species of fishes being de- 

 scribed by them. Dr. Clark Hubbs, University of Texas, sent a gift 

 of 83 fishes, and Cecil Miles, Ministeria de Agricultura, Bogota, 

 Colombia, donated the holotype of a new pomadasid fish from the 

 Colombian Caribbean. Through Stewart Springer, Harvey R. Bullis, 

 Jr., Isaac Ginsburg, and Dayton Lee Alverson, the United States Fish 

 and Wildlife Service transferred 1,154 fishes this fiscal year. Dr. 

 H. B. Goodrich, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., returned 



