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liberality of Dr. W. L. Abbott and Col. R. S. Clark, to whom we owe 

 the specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, etc., received from Charles 

 M. Hoy and Arthur de C. Sowerby, respectively. No less remarkable 

 and valuable are those made by Rev. D. C. Graham in Szechwan. 

 Large consignments are on the way, and a large number of specimens 

 have been received from the National Geographic Society's ex- 

 peditions in China under F. R. Wulsin and under Dr. J. F. Rock. 

 To Dr. Hugh M. Smith we owe important collections from Siam 

 which will be of value in linking up the Chinese material with the 

 collections the Museum already has received from the Indo-Malayan 

 region, through Dr. W. L. Abbott's efforts. 



Mammals. — Perhaps the most interesting material receded was 

 collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott himself in Santo Domingo, namely, 

 13 skins, skulls, and skeletons, together with 3 embryos representing 

 a genus of rodents which has not been found alive for nearly 100 

 years. To him we likewise owe 168 mammals collected in China 

 by Charles M. Hoy. Benjamin Burbridge, Jacksonville, Fla., pre- 

 sented two skins and skeletons of gorilla from Belgian Congo, rep- 

 resenting a species of gorilla new to the Museum collection. Dr. C. 

 Ishikawa, Tokyo, Japan, donated the skeleton of a porpoise 

 ( N eophocaena) from the coast of Corea, and A. H. Fisher, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, the skeleton of a river porpoise (Inia) from San- 

 tarem, Brazil. The mammals from western China sent by Rev. 

 D. C. Graham, 62 specimens, represent an important addition, as 

 do the 33 collected by A. de C. Sowerby, and the 12 by F. R. Wulsin. 

 The latter collection contained one skin and three skulls of the 

 rare dolphin NeophoGaena. Skins and skulls of five California 

 moles and rodents, forms hitherto unrepresented in our collection, 

 were donated by Donald R. Dicke}^, Pasadena, Calif. Among the 

 mammals brought home by C. R. Aschemeier from Brazil there 

 were some interesting bats, including a genus new to the collection. 

 Secretary Walcott, during his explorations in Canada, collected the 

 skin and skull, of a black bear in British Columbia and skins- and 

 skulls of a Rocky Mountain goat and kid (Oreamnos) from Alberta, 

 thus making it possible to begin work on the new group of the 

 latter for the exhibition series. A collection of animal remains 

 from Carib kitchenmiddens. including many bones of an extinct 

 rodent, presented by S. Wylde Howes, of Montserrat, British West 

 Indies, deserves mention. 



Birds. — Of the 201 skins donated by B. H. Swales, no less than 

 183 represented species and 4 genera not hitherto in the collection, 

 chiefly in the families of thrushes, jays, sunbirds, babblers, cuckoos, 

 parrots, pigeons, owls, hawks, among them a number of species from 

 Madagascar, and Comatibis, an unusual and rare ibis from northern 



