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Zealand giant petrel, (Macronectes giganteus albus), two kea 
parrots, (Nestor notabilis), pairs each of the Australian white 
ibis, (Ibis molucca strictipennis), the straw-necked ibis, (Car- 
phibis spinicollis), Queen Alexandra parrakeet (Spathopterus 
alexandrae), and several white-winged choughs, (Covrcorax 
melanorhamphius) . 
A very important accession, was the gift of Colonel Anthony 
R. Kuser, who presented 254 birds of 29 species, most of them 
being pheasants. Included were Cheer, (Catreus wallichi), 
brown eared, (Crossoptilon manchuricum), Swinhoe, (Gennaeus 
swinhoei), and Elliot pheasants, (Callophasis ellioti), besides 
three species of Kalij and a number of the more common species. 
It is to be noted with regret that this accession marks the dis- 
solution of the finest collection in America. 
Because of various adverse conditions, breeding results were 
not so satisfactory in 1916 as during the preceding year. We 
succeeded, however, in rearing, for the first time in this country, 
a white-necked crane, (Pseudogeranus leucauchen), a member 
of a group not easily bred. Most worthy of note among other 
birds reared this year are three picazuro pigeons, (Columba pica- 
zuro), a new record, about twenty mourning doves, several of 
which were liberated in the Park, a number of bob-white and 
scaled quail, two laughing gulls and a white-crested pheasant, 
(Gennaeus albicristatus) , the latter probably not previously bred 
in America. 
The Wild-Fowl Pond, which for several years past has 
given us much trouble because of regular outbreaks of cocci- 
diosis during the summer months, has now been furnished with 
a solid bottom of concrete. The collection of water fowl is rap- 
idly being built up and we expect now to be able to maintain it. 
During the past year the Curator, in company with a party 
of assistants, spent six months in British Guiana, South America, 
establishing the Tropical Research Station, the success of which 
has been described elsewhere in this Report. While the chief 
object of this new undertaking is scientific research, yet during 
the summer, 154 live birds, comprising thirty-four species, of 
which seven were quite new to the collection, were sent to the 
Zoological Park. 
The value of the laboratory built in the Zoological Park for 
the scientific work of the Department has been amply demon- 
