TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 15 
the whole, our efforts have been quite successful, and despite 
changes and economies once believed impossible, our collections 
never were in better general condition. 
Among the year’s accessions, the most important were 
those brought by Mr. Ellis S. Joseph, who arrived from Aus- 
tralia in July, with a great assortment of birds and mammals. 
Among the more striking were two tawny frogmouths, (Podar- 
gus strigoides strigoides) ; two Count Raggi’s birds of paradise, 
(Paradisea raggiana) ; a white goshawk, (Leucospiza novae- 
hollandiae) ; two regent birds, (Sericulus chrysocephalus chry- 
socephalus) ; a pheasant coucal, (Polophilus phasianus phasian- 
us) ; a northern flock pigeon, (Histriophaps histrionica alistera) ; 
two purple-crowned fruit pigeons, (Ptilopodiscus coronulatus), 
and two amethyst pigeons, (Phlogoenas kubaryt), from the Ruk 
and Caroline Islands. This certainly was the finest collection of 
Australasian birds ever received by us. 
The Tropical Research Station contributed a number of de- 
sirable birds, including the rare imperial Amazon parrot, (Ama- 
zona imperialis), a Guiana hawk-headed parrot, (Deroptyus ac- 
cipitrinus accipitrinus), several toucans and numerous small 
birds. From a local dealer we obtained an uncommonly fine 
specimen of the rare Brazilian hawk-headed parrot, (Deroptyus 
accipitrinus fuscifrons), so that we now have representatives of 
each form of this attractive bird. 
The Loring African Expedition, returning late in January, 
brought a number of birds, for division among the zoological 
parks of Washington, Philadelphia and New York. To our lot, 
among others, fell a pair of the lovely white-crested touracos, 
(Turacus corythaix), once fairly common in the market, but now 
never seen; a jackal buzzard, (Buteo jackal), a spotted eagle 
owl, (Bubo maculosus), and a pair of horned guinea fowl, (Nu- 
mida coronata). 
Among the few birds which reached us via England, through 
a New York dealer, were four beautiful Indian hill partridges, 
(Arboricola torqueola) ; a pair of African yellow-billed ducks, 
(Anas undulata), a mallard-like species not previously repre- 
sented in our collection, and two wedge-tailed fruit pigeons, 
(Sphenocercus sphenurus). We now have five species of these 
brilliantly plumaged but delicate birds, as follows: The nutmeg 
fruit pigeon (Myrmisticivora bicolor spilorrhoa), from Aus- 
tralia; the blue-tailed (Carpophaga concinna), Aru Islands; the 
