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The work has continued also on the bibliography of rep- 

 tiles and on the new species catalogue started in 1913. 



MAMMALS AND BIRDS 

 DEPARTMENT OF MAMMALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY 



J. A. Allen, Curator 



The accessions during 1914 numbered about 760 specimens 



of mammals and 4,400 of birds, received as follows: by gift, 



... . 160 mammals and 2^4 birds; by ex- 



Acquisitions and J , , ; 



_ , , change, 15 mammals and 120 birds; by 



Acknowledgments u Q 1 a q u- a 



purchase, 80 mammals and 485 birds; 



through Museum expeditions, 504 mammals and 3,550 birds. 

 The specimens secured by purchase and through Museum 

 expeditions were nearly all collected in South America. The 

 greater part of these were obtained on the Roosevelt Expedi- 

 tion to Paraguay and southwestern Brazil, through the gener- 

 osity of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Many specimens have 

 been received in the flesh, as usual, from the New York 

 Zoological Society and from the Department of Parks. A 

 skeleton of the rare Pigmy Right Whale (Neobalana marginatd) 

 was acquired by purchase. 



The shipment to the Museum of the large collections made 



by the Congo Expedition has been delayed by the interruption 



„ „ . of transportation facilities incident to the 



Expeditions _ , 



European war. A recent letter from Mr. 



Lang gives assurance of their present safe condition, and 



states that a part of the collections has already been sent 



down from Stanleyville to Matadi. 



Mr. H. E. Anthony, an assistant in this department, spent 

 the months of February and March in the Canal Zone at 

 Panama collecting birds and mammals, with Hon. George 

 Shiras, 3d, who bore the expense of the expedition. The 

 material obtained was practically the first of any importance 

 received by the Museum from this part of Panama. 



The collection of birds and mammals made on the Roose- 

 velt Expedition to Paraguay and southwestern Brazil, by Mr. 

 George K. Cherrie and Mr. Leo E. Miller for the Museum, form 



