ELEVENTH AXNa'AL REPORT. 57 



A summar\- of the mammals living in the Zoological I'ark on 

 December 31. 1906. is as follows: 



Primates 30 species. 83 specimens. 



Carnivora .... 60 " 149 " 



Pinnipedia .... I " 2 " 



Rodentia 26 " 123 " 



Ungulata 61 " 236 " 



]Marsupialia . . 9 " 23 '* 



Edentata, 2 '* 4 



Total .... 189 " 620 



DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. 

 C. William Beebe, Curator. 



In this department the leading event of the year was the as- 

 sembling of a large collection of North American song-birds in 

 an addition to the Large Bird House, which is known as the Glass 

 Court. The thirty-nine large cages of that structure provided 

 accommodations for a great number of passerine birds, and they 

 were promptly filled. The song-birds previously quartered in 

 the noisy parrot-room of the main building, and handicapped by 

 their screaming neighbors, were removed to the new cages, 

 where they were able to exercise their powers of song. Of the 

 nineteen families in the (3rder Passeres. eighteen are repre- 

 sented by living specimens, the majority of which are ranged, 

 by Families, in zoological sequence. 



There is cause for satisfaction in the fact that on December 31, 

 1906, the Zoological Park contained living examples of 26 

 Orders of Birds out of the total 31 Orders. The net increase 

 over the bird collection of 1905. is 136 species, and 549 specimens, 

 making a grand total of 2.104 specimens. The birds of the United 

 States are represented by about 170 species, of which about 

 70 belong to the Order of perching birds. 



Throughout the year, the collection of wild geese was made a 

 special feature. A representative series was installed in the Ducks' 

 Aviary, for which large descriptive labels were prepared and dis- 

 played. The series contained seventeen species out of the world's 

 total of thirty-five species, and it attracted much attention. 



The owl collection was enriched by the addition of a fine pair 

 of giant eagle owls, and also tawny. Cape eagle, horned, and 

 grass owls, and European little owl. Other important additions 



