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The following is a list of the different varieties which have been 

 mounted for exhibition in the National Museum : 



DOMESTIC FOWLS. 



Light Brahma cock aud hen. 



Partridge Cochin hen.* 



Langshan chick. 



Barred Plymouth Rock hen.* 



Silver Wyandotte hen.* 



Jersey Blue chick. 



Indian Game hen.* 



Indian Game hen. 



Eureka Game cock. 



Sumatra Game cock. 



Sumatra Game chick. 



Pit Game cock. 



Muffed, Pit Game, two chicks. 



White-crested, Black Polish hen. 



White-crested, White Polish hen. 



Single-comb, White Leghorn. 



Blue Andalusian. 



Silver-spangled Hamburgh hen and chick. 



Silver Sebright Bantam, three specimens. 



Black-breasted, Red Game Bantam, cock 



and hen. 

 Rose-comb, Black African Bantam, hen 



and two chicks. 



PIGEONS. 



Blue Carrier. 



Dun Carrier. 



Short faced, Bald-head, Black Tumbler. 



Red-checkered Homer. 



Blue-checkered Homer. 



Blue-rock Homer. 



English Fantail. 



Scotch Fantail. 



Black Trumpeter. 



Full-head, Black-barred, Blue-winged 

 Swallow. 



Plain head, White-barred, Red-winged 

 Swallow. 



White-barred, Blue-winged Fairy. 



Full-head, Blue- winged Swallow. 



Plain-head, White-barred, Blue-winged 

 Swallow. 



Black Magpie. 



Archangel (three <?, 9). 



Spangled Ice Pigeon, two specimens. 



Isabel, Pigmy Pouter. 



Common Dove-house Pigeon, five speci- 

 mens. 



COLORIST. 



Mr. A. Zeno Shindler has, during the year, devoted the principal 

 portion of his time in preparing for the Department of Ethnology a col- 

 lection of paintings illustrating the races of men. Among them are tbe 

 following: Apache Indians, Eskimo, Chinese, Japanese, Aiuo, Thibetan, 

 Hindoo, Akka, Zulu, Fiji Islander, Dyak of Borneo, Native of Mada- 

 agascar. A number of Indian photographs, and a life-size model and 

 painting of natives of Samoa have been made. 



PHOTOGRAPHER. 



During the year Mr. T. W. Smillie has made 357 negatives. Of these 

 98 were for the Department of Ethnology, 28 for the Department of 

 Mammals, 9 for the Department of Comparative Anatomy, 41 for the 

 Department of Geology, 5 for the Section of Graphic Arts, 176 miscel- 

 laneous prints, and 110 transparencies. 



The number of prints made during the year is 3,972, distributed as 

 follows : 



For the Department of Ethnology 196 



For the Department of Mammals 22 



For the Department of Comparative A.uatomy 15 



For the Department of Geology 42 



* This bird received the first prize at the New York Poultry Exhibition, January, 1890. 



