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Coast Avifauna No. 10. We regret that the delay in distribution compels 

 us to defer a review until the October number of * The Auk.' 



The zoological collections which the American Museum of Natural 

 History has received through the generosity of Colonel Roosevelt, from 

 the Roosevelt Expedition to South America, amount to twenty-five 

 hundred birds and four hundred and fifty mammals. 



Work was begun by Mr. George K. Cherrie and Leo E. Miller, whom 

 Colonel Roosevelt took with him as representatives of the Museum, in 

 the vicinity of Asuncion, Paraguay, in the early part of November. The 

 next collecting station was in the vicinity of Curumbd. From this point, 

 the expedition proceeded northward through San Luiz de Cdceres to 

 Utiarity and Tapirapoan. 



At Utiarity Mr. Anthony Fiala, who had accompanied the expedition 

 as photographer and "chief of commissary," started with Lieutenant 

 Lauriodo Sta. Anna, and six natives, down the Papegaio, Jurena and Tap- 

 ajoz Rivers to Santarem. 



At Tapirapoan, Mr. Miller left the expedition and with Second Lieuten- 

 ant Joaquim Manuel Vieira de Mello, Euzebio Paulo de Oliveira, and 

 Heinrich Reinish, repesentatives of the Brazilian Government, went down 

 the Gy Parand and Madeira Rivers to Manaos. 



On February 27, the main party, consisting of Colonel Roosevelt, Colonel 

 Rondon, Lieutenant Lyra and Doctor Cajazeira, of the BraziUan Army, 

 Kermit Roosevelt, George K. Cherrie and fifteen canoemen, started on what 

 proved to be a perilous voyage down the hitherto unexplored Rio da Diivida, 

 which was ascertained to flow into the Madeira. The difficulties of trans- 

 portation were so great that comparatively few specimens were collected 

 by Mr. Cherrie on this trip. Those which he did obtain, however, proved 

 to be of exceptional interest. 



Mr. Miller made an important addition to the collection at Calama, at 

 the junction of the Gy Parand and Madeira, and also at Manaos, which he 

 reached several weeks in advance of Colonel Roosevelt's party. 



DouBLEDAY, Page & Co. have just issued a new edition of their well- 

 known 'Nature Library' printed on thin paper, which makes it possible 

 to condense the whole series into eight handy volumes, without in any 

 way abridging the contents. 



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