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Selasphorus platycercus — Apache City. Arizona, August. Full of 

 fragments of insects. 



Selasphorus rufus.— Apache City, Arizona, Aug. 23. Full of insect 

 remains. 



Selasphorus rufus.— Fort Huachuca, N. M. Two specimens, both 



partly full of insects. 



Doricha evelynse.— Rum Cay, W. I. Full of insect remains. 



Basilinnaxantusi.— CapeSt. Lucas. Lower Cala. Stuffed. Cecidomyia, 

 Phora, three specimens of Solenopsis geminatus, elytra of beetle, Psyllus, 

 parts of spiders. 



Iache latirostris.— Morelos, Mexico. Partly full. 



Chlorostilbon sp. ? —Empty. 



ORNITHOLOGY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN. 



While the zoological sciences were assigned no especial 

 place at the World's Fair in Chicago several branches are never- 

 theless well represented. 



The larger mammals receive, in proportion to the number 

 of species, the most attention, the exhibits ranging in size and 

 importance from the finely mounted collections shown by the 

 National Museum and the State of Kansas to the moth-eaten, 

 undressed skins tacked on the wall of some exhibitor's section. 



The Fish Commission of course presents an excellent economic 

 display of piscatorial products, and the economics of entomology 

 are well represented by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 and the Illinois State Laboratory. Reptiles are exhibited in 

 small numbers by the U. S. National Museum, while the same 

 institution and Ward's Natural Science Establishment have 

 exhibits of invertebrates. 



In point of number of specimens probably birds are better 

 represented than any other branch of the animal kingdom. 

 The lack, however, of a section devoted to zoology makes it 

 exceedingly difficult to learn the location of a given exhibit 

 even after one has ascertained its existence. Thus collections 

 of birds are displayed in many of the State and foreign build- 



