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In May, Keeper Durbin spent several weeks trapping near 

 Savannah, Georgia, and brought back an excellent collection of 

 one hundred and fifteen birds of twenty-three species. Among 

 other forms new to the collection were white-eyed towhees, pine, 

 Tennessee and yellow-throated warblers, tufted titmice, brown- 

 headed nuthatches, Carolina wrens and summer tanagers. 



The extremely small expense incident to such trips makes it 

 probable that others will be made in the future. 



Of the 102 species new to the collection, added during the 

 past year, it is possible here to call attention only to the excellent 

 series of western desert birds, and the unusual number of rare 

 species that are of especial interest to students of evolution. 

 Many of these last are representatives of isolated families, or 

 even orders, and the majority are neo-tropical in habitat. 



The family Ciconiidae, or true storks, is represented in the 

 new world by only three species, all of which are now living in. 

 the Zoological Park. The maguari stork, (Euxenura maguari, 

 Gmel.), is represented by one specimen and is noteworthy as 

 paralleling closely the European white stork, (Ciconia ciconia, 

 Linn.), in color, but excelling it in size. 



The other two American storks are the jabiru, (Mycteria 

 americana, Linn.), and wood ibis, (Tantalus loculator, Linn.). 

 It is better even for technical purposes to call these by their 

 English, rather than their scientific names, as our over-zealous 

 systematists have recently and very dexterously exchanged their 

 Latin cognomens. The latter is a common bird, always on ex- 

 hibition, but the jabiru is much rarer, and the splendid individ- 

 ual now in the Park is only the second one which we have been 

 able to obtain. 



The genus Chauna of the order Palamedeiformes is com- 

 plete, both species of screamers, the black-necked, (C. chavaria, 

 Linn.), and the crested, (C. cristata, Swains.), being in the col- 

 lection. 



But the most important series is of the so-called sub-orders 

 of Gruiformes, or crane-like birds. Four of the six sub-orders 

 are represented, the arami by the limpkin, (Aramus giganteus, 

 Bonap.) ; Eurypygae by the sun-bittern, (Eurypygae helias, 

 Pall.); Psophiae by the common (Psophia crepitans, Linn.), 

 and the white-backed trumpeter, (P. leucoptera, Spix.). 



Finally, the only two species of DicJiolophi are both repre- 

 sented in the collection, viz.: the crested (Cariama cristata, 

 Linn.), and Burmeister's seriema, (Chunga burmeisteri, Hartl.). 



