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Doctor Mann is to be congratulated on his success in bringing to 

 the country live representatives of several species from Bolivia and 

 western Brazil that have never before been shown. The red-faced 

 spider monkey, black-headed woolly monkey, pale capuchin, choliba 

 screech owl, Bolivian penelope, short-tailed parrot, Maximilian's 

 parrot, blue-headed parrot, Cassin's macaw, golden-crowned paro- 

 quet, Weddell's paroquet, orange-wiinged paroquet, and golden- 

 winged paroquet are new to the collection. " These and other rarities 

 are mostly from the Rio Beni, Bolivia, and the upper Eio Madeira, 

 Brazil, localities from which animals seldom find their way into 

 collections. Other species, including such rare birds as the festive 

 parrot, Amazonian caique, and white-backed trumpeter, while not 

 new to the park records, are unusual. There were also some showy 

 birds and small mammals from the lower Amazon as well as an 

 excellent collection of living reptiles. On account of the great pro- 

 portion of rare species it contained and the unusually good condi- 

 tion of the specimens on arrival, the Mulford Explorations collection 

 easily ranks as the most important accession received from tropical 

 America in some years. 



Mr. W. J. La Varre, jr., continuing his donations from personal 

 exploration of out-of-the-way parts of South America, presented 

 28 birds and mammals from the interior of British Guiana. Con- 

 spicuous among these are a cock of the rock, a Hahn's macaw, and 

 two dusky parrots, all new to the collection. Mr. La Varre also 

 succeeded in landing a young red howler monkey. The cock of the 

 rock, a young bird in immature plumage on arrival, has now de- 

 veloped into full color and is one of the most showy and attractive 

 exhibits in the bird house. 



Mr. Victor J. Evans, of Washington, D. C, long a regular con- 

 tributor to the collection, purchased and placed on indefinite de- 

 posit a Cape great-eared fox and two yellow-billed hornbills, both 

 species new to the records of the park. The long-eared fox, received 

 from South Africa, is doubtless the first representative of its species 

 ever exhibited alive in America. 



Sixty-eight individual donors contributed to the collection during 

 the year. The complete list is as follows: 



Mrs. Benjamin E. Abbott, Washington, D. C, Virginia opossum. 



Dr. Artliur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y., 10 greater scaup ducks. 



American Express Co., Washington, D. C, 4 chipmunks. 



Mrs. R. P. Andrews, Washington, D. C, Cuban parrot. 



Mr. Carl Bandrexler, Washington, D. C, copperhead. 



Mr. Muri'ell Barkley, Washington, D. C, 2 tovi paroquets. 



Mrs. A. H. Baum, Washington, D. C, alligator. 



Mrs. William R. Bedell, Washington, D. C, blue-fronted parrot. 



Mr. John M. Blanton, Washington, D. C, Texas red wolf. 



Mrs. Grace Boone, New Midway, Md., American coot. 



