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Important collections were made early in the year in 



Antioquia by Messrs. Leo E. Miller and Howarth S. Boyle, 



*,.-■« . and later in Bolivia, where their work will be 

 bouth America . ' 



systematically continued during much of the 



coming year. Several months were devoted by Messrs. H. E. 

 Anthony and D. S. Ball of the department staff, assisted by 

 Mr. William B. Richardson, formerly employed by the 

 Museum in Ecuador and southwestern Colombia, to explora- 

 tions in eastern Panama, with excellent results. Through the 

 generosity of Messrs. Alfred M. Collins and Lee Garnett Day, 

 the Museum was represented on the Collins-Day Expedition 

 to South America by Mr. George K. Cherrie, who secured a 

 valuable collection of birds. Hitherto little work has been 

 done in Peru by the Museum's South American expeditions, 

 but recently arrangements have been completed with Messrs. 

 H. and C. Watkins, engineers long resident in that country 

 and experienced collectors, for a systematic reconnaissance 

 of this important field, and they are already making good 

 progress with the work. 



The work of the Brewster-Sanford Expedition, in charge 

 of Mr. Rollo H. Beck, is still being successfully prosecuted 

 off the southern shores of South America and in the Falkland 

 Islands. About 2,000 specimens have been received from this 

 expedition during the present year. 



The number of birds added during the year from our South 

 American expeditions is approximately 7,000; of mammals, 

 about 1,000. 



The principal additions to the exhibition series of birds 

 are the Sandhill Crane Habitat Group, the locality repre- 

 sented being Heron Lake, Minnesota, and a 

 large Penguin Group from South Georgia Island. 

 A Rocky Mountain Sheep Group, a Black Bear Group, showing 

 the color phases of the species, and an Indiana Bat Cave 

 Group, have been added to the exhibition series of North 

 American mammals. 



Through the courtesy and cooperation of Colonel Franklin 

 Brandreth and Mr. Frederick Potter, Mr. Andrews was 

 enabled to secure specimens of buck, doe and fawn of the 



