40 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1904. 



American Museum of Natural History; Mr. J. A. G. Rehn, of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Sciences; Dr. I). G. Elliot, of the Field 

 Columbian Museum; Mr. Outran) Bangs, of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology; Prof. Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell University, and 

 the* members of the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Mr. Robert Kidgway, curator of birds, continued with little inter- 

 ruption the preparation of his comprehensive monograph on the Birds 

 of North and Middle America, completing the manuscript f c c Volume 

 in, and a large part of that for Volume iv, beside two small papers 

 on new genera and species of birds. In making the measurements of 

 specimens for his monograph he was assisted by Mr. J. H. Riley, aid, 

 who also published three notes on birds from the Bahama Islands. 

 Dr. Charles W. Richmond, assistant curator of birds, finished the 

 identification of the majority of the birds collected by Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott on the islands off the western coast of Sumatra, prepared a list 

 of the species obtained by Doctor Abbott and Mr. C. B. Kloss on 

 Anambas and Tambelans islands, China Sea, and at Tringana, Malay 

 Archipelago, and was the author of several notes on zoological 

 nomenclature. 



The collection of birds was consulted by Dr. R. M. Strong and Prof. 

 C. O. Whitman, of the University of Chicago; Mr. Elliot Blackwelder, 

 of Chicago; Mr. Jonathan Dwight, jr., of New York; Mr. Outram 

 Bangs; Mr. Frank Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History; the Biological Survey, and the Committee on Nomenclature 

 of the American Ornithologists 1 Union. 



Studies on the reptile fauna of eastern Asia were carried on by Dr. 

 Leonhard Stejneger, curator of reptiles, who also worked up the collec- 

 tion of reptiles brought from Japan by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy 

 Commissioner of Fisheries, and from the Bahamas by Mr. J. H. Riley, 

 as a member of the expedition of the Baltimore Geographical Society. 

 Doctor Stejneger likewise prepared a general account of the herpetol- 

 ogy of the Bahama Islands and several small papers, and, in conjunc- 

 tion with Mr. Vernon Bailey, identified the Museum collection of 

 reptiles from Texas. His report on the proceedings of the Fifth Inter- 

 national Zoological Congress at Berlin, during August, 1901, at which 

 he represented the National Museum, was received during the year. 

 Facilities were afforded Prof. W. P. Hay, of Howard University, for 

 studying the diamond back-terrapin for the Bureau of Fisheries. 



Mr. Barton A. Bean, assistant curator of fishes, reported on the 

 fishes collected on the expedition of the Baltimore Geographical Soci- 

 ety to the Bahama Islands, comprising 165 species, identified the 

 specimens obtained by the Senff Expedition to the Nile in 1899, and pre- 

 pared notes on material from North Carolina and the Barbados. The 

 collections in this division were also consulted by Dr. Theodore Gill, 



