58 ANNUAL REPOKT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



Dr. Paul Bartsch, Washington, D. C, two common crows. 



Frederick Carl, jr., Washington, D. C, two screech owls. 



Miss Catharine Carroll, Washington, D. C, a barn owl. 



E. S. Case, Takoma Park, D. C, three blue jays. 



Miss M. B. Cole, Washington, D. C, an alligator. 



Mrs. Mary F. Crown, Washington, D. C, a yellow-headed Amazon parrot. 



Mrs. R. S. Day, Washington, D. C, a common canary. 



Boris de Street, Washington, D. C, an alligator. 



J. R. Eddy, Lamedeer, Mont., an American badger. 



Mr. Eustis, Leesburg, Va., a red-tailed hawk. 



Dr. Cecil French, Washington, D. C, four Hungarian quail. 



Guy M. Gribble, Buckhannon, W. Va., a red-tailed hawk. 



Jesse Hand, jr., Belleplain, N. J., two king snakes. 



Mr. C. A. Holland, Feuwick, Va., a bittern. 



Clarence Howard, Washington, D. C, a copperhead snake. 



E. C. Howe, Washington, D. C, two alligators. 

 W. H. Kelly, Sandusky, Ohio, two bald eagles. 



Mr. Lansdale, Washington, D. C, two common opossums. 



Carvel Leary, Washington, D. C., a guinea pig. 



Miss Frances McMullen, Largo, Fla., an alligator snapping turtle. 



C. W. Marks, Berryville, Va., a black snake. 



S. S. Paschals, Chevy Chase, Md., two zebra finches. 



L. E. Perry, Gorgona, Canal Zone, a spider monkey. 



F. W. Pilling, Washington, D. C, 10 common canaries, a red-crested cardinal 

 and 2 white Java sparrows. 



Mrs. J. E. Pleitner, Washington, D. C, a green Amazon parrot. 



N. Schutz, Washington, D. C, a screech owl. 



John B. Smith, Renovo, Pa., a banded rattlesnake. 



Mrs. H. Clay Stewart, Washington, D. C, two common canaries. 



J. P. Taylor, Washington, D. C, a copperhead snake and a black snaka 



Dr. James R. Tubman, Washington, D. C, a great horned owl. 



United States Bureau of Fisheries, two northern fur seals. 



James Worcester, Washington, D. C, an alligator. 



Unknown donors, a hawk, a parrakeet, and a woodchuck. 



LOSSES OF ANIMALS. 



The most important losses during the year were a pair of clouded leopards, 

 a lion, and a young Alaskan brown bear from parasitism ; a leucoryx, a water 

 buck, and a nilgai, from tuberculosis; a female American bison and a caribou, 

 in the collection for 10 years, from peritonitis; two solenodons from sep- 

 ticemia, and two young fur seals from enteritis and heat stroke. 



Dead animals, to the number of 142, were transferred to the United States 

 National Museum. Autopsies were made, as usual, by the Pathological Division 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. 1 



1 The causes of death were as follows : Pneumonia, 10 ; tuberculosis, 8 ; pulmonary 

 edema, 1 ; aspergillosis, 7 ; pseudomembranous tracheitis, 1 ; enteritis, 9 ; gastritis, 1 ; 

 gastroenteritis, 7 ; pneumoenteritis, 1 ; intestinal coccidiosis, 7 ; peritonitis, 6 ; nephritis, 

 2 ; fatty degeneration of liver, 1 ; parasitism, 3 ; stomatitis, 2 ; strangulated hernia, 1 ; 

 rupture of gizzard, 1 ; internal hemorrhage, 1 ; abscess of scrotum, 1 ; abscess of head, 1 ; 

 unable to deliver young, 1 ; duodenitis, 1 ; colitis, 1 ; echinococcosis, 1 ; necrobacillosis, 1 ; 

 pyoscianeusbacillosis, 1 ; porocephalosis, 1 ; septicemia, 3 ; enterotoxism, 1 ; cystitis, 1 ; 

 endocarditis, 1 ; visceral gout, 1 ; sarcomatosis, 2 ; cancer of pouch, 1 ; leukemia, 1 ; 

 icterus, 1 ; impaction, 3 ; duodenal obstruction, 1 ; starvation, 2 ; accidents and 

 injuries, 13 ; killed because unfit for exhibition, 4 ; result of autopsy indeterminate, 3 ; 

 no cause found, 4 



