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Zealand giant petrel, (Macronectes giganteus albus) , two kea 

 parrots, (Nestor notahilis) , pairs each of the Australian white 

 ibis, (Ibis molucca strictipen7iis) , the straw-necked ibis, (Car- 

 pJiibis spinicollis) , Queen Alexandra parrakeet (Spathopterus 

 alexandrae) , and several white-winged choughs, (Corcorax 

 melanorhamph hs) . 



A very important accession, was the gift of Colonel Anthony 

 R. Kuser, who presented 254 birds of 29 species, most of them 

 being pheasants. Included were Cheer, (Catreus wallichi) , 

 brown eared, (Crossoptilon manchuricum) , Swinhoe, (Gennaeus 

 swinhoei) , and Elliot pheasants, (Callophasis ellioti) , besides 

 three species of Kalij and a number of the more common species. 

 It is to be noted with regret that this accession marks the dis- 

 solution of the finest collection in America. 



Because of various adverse conditions, breeding results were 

 not so satisfactory in 1916 as during the preceding year. We 

 succeeded, however, in rearing, for the first time in this country, 

 a white-necked crane, (Pseud ogeranus leucauclien) , a member 

 of a group not easily bred. Most worthy of note among other 

 birds reared this year are three picazuro pigeons, (Colnmba pica- 

 zuro) , a new record, about twenty mourning doves, several of 

 which were liberated in the Park, a number of bob-white and 

 scaled quail, two laughing gulls and a white-crested pheasant, 

 (Gennaeus albicri status) , the latter probably not previously bred 

 in America. 



The Wild-Fowl Pond, which for several years past has 

 given us much trouble because of regular outbreaks of cocci- 

 diosis during the summer months, has now been furnished with 

 a solid bottom of concrete. The collection of water fowl is rap- 

 idly being built up and we expect now to be able to maintain it. 



During the past year the Curator, in company with a party 

 of assistants, spent six months in British Guiana, South America, 

 establishing the Tropical Research Station, the success of which 

 has been described elsewhere in this Report. While the chief 

 object of this new undertaking is scientific research, yet during 

 the summer, 154 live birds, comprising thirty-four species, of 

 which seven were quite new to the collection, were sent to the 

 Zoological Park. 



The value of the laboratory built in the Zoological Park for 

 the scientific work of the Department has been amply demon- 



