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species of ducks — Wood Duck. Widg-eon, Mallard, and Red-Head 

 — were in the Park all the fall, frequently Hying from pond to 

 pond, and several wild Wood Ducks are spending the winter on 

 the Aquatic Mammals Pond. 



Green, Black-Crowned, Night, and Great Blue Herons are very 

 often found in the Park, generally near their relatives in the 

 great Flying Cage. Thus the Park is rapidly becoming an un- 

 excelled place for studying many of our rarer native birds, large 

 and small, at close range in addition to the advantages which a 

 bird-lover may derive from the birds in the collections. 



The erection in 1903 of the large house for perching birds, 

 the plans for which are now nearly complete, will not only afYord 

 great relief to the congested condition of the bird collections but 

 will afford an opportunity to bring together a great number of 

 forms now quite unrepresented in the Park. 



The following is a full statement of the bird collections on 

 hand on December 31st: 



Order. Species. Specimens. 



Ratitae i i 



Longipennes 2 13 



Steganopodes 5 24 



Anseres 29 199 



Odontoglossie 2 6 



Herodiones 12 38 



Paludicolse 9 15 



Gallinae 22 133 



Columbae 6 12 



Raptores 20 65 



Psittaci 25 39 



Coccyges i i 



Passeres 59 134 



13 Orders 193 680 



Received by gift 115 



Purchased 215 



Exchanged 40 



Deposited i 



Collected 18 



Hatched and Raised 88 



