REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 51 
Smithsonian African expedition, in conjunction with the Universal 
Film Manufacturing Co., form a valuable general collection sup- 
plementing, in an important manner, the large African collections 
already in the Museum. The Bureau of Fisheries transferred to the 
division 40 skulls and one skeleton of the Alaskan fur seal from the 
Pribilof Islands. These skulls, which were collected by Dr. G. D. 
Hanna, are of very great importance, as they are supplemented with 
very detailed data as to age, size, etc., and form the basis of Doctor 
Hanna’s studies of the development of this economically important 
species. Several large Canadian mammals, including mule deer and 
mountain goats, were collected by Secretary Walcott of the Smith- 
sonian Institution for the Museum. Mr. A. F. Bearpark, of Cape 
Town, South Africa, donated a fetus of a whale from South Africa. 
Birds.—That Dr. W. L. Abbott’s interest in the fauna of the farther 
India is as keen as ever is evidenced by the fine collection of 496 
birds made by Mr. C. Boden Kloss, of the Federated Malay States 
Museums, Kuala, Lumpur, in Siam, Cochin China, and Anam, which 
he presented to the Museum. The region was only slightly repre- 
sented in our collection, so that naturally there are a considerable 
number of forms new to the Museum, approximately 90 species and 
subspecies and 3 genera. The collection also contains the types of 
6 species recently described by Mr. Kloss. Hoy’s Australian birds 
number 487 skins and 47 alcoholies and skeletons, and contains also 
a generous proportion of species new to the Museum, though no figures 
can be given at present. A genus of lyre birds (Harriwhitea) is new 
to the Museum, as well as a number of local forms from Kangaroo 
Island, South Australia. Of the several hundred birds personally 
collected by Doctor Abbott in Haiti and Santo Domingo, several are 
of particular interest. The thick-knee or stone-plover (Oedicnemus 
dominicensis) and the local form of the grasshopper-sparrow (Ammo- 
dramus savannarum intricatus) were new to the Museum; while a 
whippoorwill is apparently new to science. Mr. Raven, of the Smith- 
sonian African expedition, collected 162 skins and 47 skeletons and 
alcoholics. As the collection has not yet been worked up, the num- 
ber of new additions are not known, but at least one genus, Megabias, 
has been recognized as hitherto unrepresented in the Museum. An 
alcoholic specimen of Smithornis will be of great assistance in ascer- 
taining the correct place of this genus in the system. From the 
Department of Agriculture several important additions were re- 
ceived, principally birds, alcoholics, and skeletons, the result of Dr. A. 
Wetmore’s explorations in Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. 
From the Swales fund, placed at the disposition of the division by 
Mr. B. H. Swales as mentioned in last year’s report, 41 skins of foreign 
birds were obtained, representing about 38 species new to the Museum, 
including seven genera not hitherto contained in the national collec- 
