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Otherwise would have been. Nevertheless Mr. Slevin brought 

 home a total of 1396 reptiles and amphibians, among which are 

 represented several rare or little known species. 



Olympic Mountains. — September 12 to 28 was spent by the 

 Director of the Museum and the Curator of Herpetology in a 

 trip to the Olympic Mountains west of Seattle. The primary 

 objects of the trip were to secure, if possible, moving pictures 

 of the Roosevelt Elk and to make collections of reptiles and 

 amphibians. Though we had with us Mr. Will Hudson, an 

 expert Pathe photographer, and Mr. C. J. Albrecht, an expert 

 hunter who had secured for the Academy all the animals used 

 in the Roosevelt Elk group and who was thoroughly familiar 

 with the region, we were entirely unsuccessful in securing any 

 elk pictures. We spent several days (September 18-24) on the 

 Hoh River some 70 miles west of Port Angeles. This is in the 

 region where Mr. Albrecht obtained the specimens for our 

 group and where the elk might be expected at that season, but 

 we saw only six bulls all told. There had been no snow in 

 the mountains to drive the herds down into the river valley. 

 Another effort will be made next fall. 



In herpetology the trip was much more successful, 239 valu- 

 able specimens having been obtained. 



Huntington Lake. — Mr. E. P. Van Duzee spent the month 

 of July (July 3 to 31) at Huntington Lake in the Sierras east 

 of Fresno, in the interest of his department, when he added 

 about 5000 specimens to the Academy's entomological collec- 

 tions. Besides this field trip Mr. Van Duzee made several other 

 short collecting trips, all fully set forth in his report. 



Yosemite National Park. — Mr. William Heim spent the 

 time from October 6 to 28, collecting birds and mammals in 

 the Yosemite region. He obtained fifty specimens. 



Napa, Lake, Mendocino, and Colusa counties. — Most of the 

 months of April to June and September and October were spent 

 by Mr. Joseph Mailliard and Mr. Luther Little in these counties 

 studying and collecting the birds and mammals of that region. 

 The total number of specimens secured was: mammals, 190; 

 birds, 753 ; birds' nests and eggs, 50 ; reptiles and amphibians, 

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