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species of fish-eating birds, the pond in the Moose Range has 
been well stocked with breeding carp, kindly supplied by the 
director of the New York Aquarium, and it is expected that many 
thousand young carp can be bred annually for food purposes. 
This will make it possible to keep a certain number of diving 
birds which until now could not be adequately supplied with live 
fish. In addition to the stocking of this pond with carp, a great 
number of yellow perch fry and young goldfish were placed in 
the Aquatic Mammals’ Pond and Cope Lake. 
The composition of the bird collections on December 31, 1904, 
was as follows: 
ORDER. SPECIES. SPECIMENS. 
Ratitae ais Aly sion veer eens 6 10 
eXehavestaVeaines 45 Burns a4 oe 6 32 
Stesanopodeses7 ae e aoe 7 24 
INTISEHES a ae ete ae 22 221 
Odontoglessaes. 25 see I I 
ler Odi@nes, weet ae 15 53 
Paludicolae 4.5 tase 8 12 
Tsimircolacenh ayes cee eae oe I I 
Gallinae Gott 2 ioe 18 74 
Columbacgcs eis see ete 3 3 
NCCIPIETES) vei cas, c Mero se iene 12 30 
SUnI@eS et ae ree 9 25 
SIAC OLN tee ete tee ee 2 35 
RASS CHES cc emeie es et ewe 34 122 
TAG @MGetS sec. sere ey ee 165 643 
During the year several experiments of a very interesting 
nature were carried out by Curator Beebe. Complete success was 
attained in the rearing and keeping of the common tern and sooty 
tern, black skimmer, honey creeper, and three species of bitterns,— 
the latter the most difficult of all herons to establish in captivity. 
A large colony of laughing gulls was successfully established be- 
side the pool in the old Caribou Range. After spending two 
years in the Park, several of these birds migrated southward in the 
autumn of 1903, and returned to the Park colony in the follow- 
ing spring. A beautiful flock of 30 brant geese was placed on 
the Mammal Pond, where they attract much attention. 
The sandhill cranes in the old Caribou Range nested and laid 
fertile eggs, but failed to hatch them. The snowy herons nested 
