Field Expeditions 81 



The American Museum Asiatic Zoological Expedition, under 



the leadership of the Assistant Curator of Mammals, Mr. Roy 



C. Andrews, left New York in March, 1916, for 



E ield ,. . field work, mainly in the Province of Yunnan, 



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China, and returned in October, 191 7. As stated 



in the report of this department for 191 6, Mr. Andrews was 

 accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Yvette Borup Andrews, official 

 photographer of the expedition, and by Mr. Edmund Heller, 

 well known as an expert collector and explorer. The expedi- 

 tion was eminently successful, obtaining 2,100 mammals, 800 

 birds and 200 reptiles, 10,000 feet of motion picture film, and 

 550 photographs, of which 150 are in natural colors. Collec- 

 tions were made at localities varying from 1,500 to 15,000 feet 

 above sea-level and extending from the Burma frontier to the 

 borders of Tibet. The mammals include large series of gorals 

 and serows, the shrew-like Hylomys and large numbers of 

 rodents and insectivores, nearly all previously unrepresented in 

 our collections. As much of the region traversed had not 

 before been visited by collectors, it is probable that this mate- 

 rial will be found to contain many undescribed forms. 



Mr. Waldron DeWitt Miller, Associate Curator of Ornithol- 

 ogy, made a reconnaissance trip to Nicaragua, to familiarize 

 himself with the physical conditions and the distribution of 

 bird-life in that country, preparatory to the publication of a 

 work on Nicaraguan birds, based on the large collections of 

 birds made for the Museum by William B. Richardson in 1906- 

 1909. As Mr. Miller was able to avail himself of Mr. Richard- 

 son's services as guide and assistant in his field work, he was 

 successful in obtaining important results, both in the way of 

 material and in first-hand knowledge of the faunal conditions. 

 Mr. Miller's collection of 1,500 specimens enables him to add a 

 considerable number of species to the list of known Nicaraguan 

 birds. He was accompanied by Mr. Griscom of this depart- 

 ment. 



The work begun in Porto Rico by Assistant H. E. Anthony 

 in 19 16 was this year extended to Cuba, where several months 

 were spent in exploring caves for the remains of extinct mam- 

 mals. Despite the revolutionary conditions then prevailing, 

 which considerably hampered his work and brought it to an 



