ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME VI. NOS. 2-3. 



Editorial Notes. 



The collections of birds belonging to the Museum have been en- 

 arged by the acquisition of a fine series of the birds of the Bahaman 

 Islands collected by Mr. W. W. Worthington during the late winter and 

 spring of the present year. Mr. Worthington visited all of the islands 

 and succeeded in obtaining specimens of all the species which have 

 hitherto been recorded from the islands, as well as a new species, which 

 has been described by Mr. W. E. C. Todd as Dend?'oica flavesceus in 

 the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. XXII, 

 pp. 171-172. 



There have also been received considerable collections of birds from 

 eastern Bolivia taken by Mr. Jose Steinbach. 



Mr. M. A. Carriker, Jr., sailed from New York on July the 29th in 

 order to take up the work of collecting birds for the Museum in north- 

 western South America. He will first explore the valley of the Ori- 

 noco, working westward and southward. 



Mr. Joseph A. Santens is engaged in mounting a number of very 

 life-like groups of our native birds in their nesting positions. A special 

 effort was made this spring to secure good specimens of some of the 

 birds, which are rarely seen on their nests except by careful observers. 

 Among the groups in course of preparation is that of a pair of sharp- 

 shinned hawks upon the nest, a group of green bitterns upon their 

 nest, and a group of cliff -swallows associated with Phcebes, which were 

 found amicably living together. 



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