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Other additions worthy of note are the white-necked stork 

 (Ciconia nigra) ; a very fine example of the black-necked stork 

 (Xenorhynchus asiaticus) ; the black spur-winged goose (Plec- 

 tropterus niger) ; the milky eagle-owl (Bubo lacteus) and the 

 eared vulture (Otogyps auricularis) , a large and powerful bird 

 of rather gruesome appearance. 



A fine series of Cuban birds has been accumulated. It in- 

 cludes the Cuban flicker (Colaptes chrysocaulosus) ; eye-browed 

 woodpecker {Centurus superciUaris) ; Cuban green woodpecker 

 {Xiphidiopicus perciissus) ; Cuban banded woodpecker (Neso- 

 celeus fernmidinae) ; Cuban cuckoo (Saurotheria merlini) ; 

 D'Orbigny blackbird (Ptiloxena atrovolacea) and the Lawrence 

 owl {Gijmnasio laivrencei) . 



The Curator returned from his seventeen months' quest for 

 pheasants on May 27, 1911, successfully completing the first 

 round-the-world scientific expedition which the Society has 

 undertaken.* The five earlier ornithological expeditions of the 

 Curator, respectively to Cobb Island, Florida, Mexico, Venezuela 

 and British Guiana were all made at his own expense. This 

 Pheasant Expedition was made at the suggestion and by the 

 financial aid of Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, and the monograph 

 now under way will be published within two years under the 

 auspices of the Zoological Society. 



Since the Curator's return, his scientific observations and 

 experiments upon the bird collections have again been taken 

 in hand. On December 5, 1911, Zoologica No. 7 was published 

 under the title of The Undescribed Juvenal Plumage of the 

 Yucatan Jay. Other numbers are in course of preparation. 

 Zoologica Number 2, "The Ecology of the Hoatzin," has been 

 reprinted entire in the Smithsonian Report for 1910, and the 

 Bidletin article on the Sonneberg Aviaries has been reprinted 

 in Bird Notes for December. 



Important new installations, which now are in actual process 

 of completion, are the Eagle and Vulture Aviary, the Tropical 

 Eagle and Owl House and Hospital, and a series of breeding 

 cages for rare birds. These will all be completed early during 

 the coming year. 



*For a preliminary account of tiic l-lxpcdition, sec Zoological Society Bulletin 

 No. 46. 



