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Mr. Charles KE. Cory is now Curator of the Department, 
and Dr. N. Dearborn is Assistant for Ornithology. 
From what is stated in the Report it will be evident that 
a large amount of excellent work has been done in all the 
four Departments of the Museum during the past year, while 
no less than 32 separate expeditions for the acquisition of 
specimens have beensent out. Dr. Dearborn himself went to 
Guatemala, and obtained upwards of one thousand bird-skins. 
This is obviously a much better mode of stocking a museum 
than by purchasing stray specimens from dealers, and might 
advantageously be more often followed in some of the larger 
Institutions of Europe. 
96. Finsch on Birds new to the Javan Ornis. 
[Neue Arten zur Javanischen Ornis. Von Dr. O. Finsch. J. f. O. 
1907, p. 301.] 
Herr Max Bartels, well known for his writings on the 
birds of Java, has lately made an excursion to the Thousand 
Islands, which he in the Java Sea about fifty miles north of 
Batavia. Amongst the species of which examples were 
obtained are two new to science, which Dr. Finsch describes 
as Chibia ter-meulent and Zosterops maai. A complete 
account of the collection is being prepared. 
97. Goeldi’s ‘ Album of Amazonian Birds,’ 
[Album de Aves Amazonicas, organizado pelo Professor Dr. Emilio A, 
Goeldi. 3° Fascicolo. 1906. } 
The issue of the third fasciculus brings Dr. Goeldi’s 
‘Album of Amazonian Birds’ to a conclusion. We have 
already noticed the two former parts (see ‘Ibis,’ 1902, 
pp. 149, 510, and 1904, p. 151), and have explained the 
nature and object of the work, which will, no doubt, have 
great effect in calling attention to the rich Avifauna of 
the Amazon and its affluents. The 48 plates, which are 
printed in colour and contain’ several figures each, 
portray the outlines and varied plumages of all the leading 
and characteristic forms of the Amazonian Ornis, and 
will render their identification comparatively easy. We 
congratulate Dr. Goeldi on having completed this useful 
