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Virginia Deer and the accessories for a Habitat Deer Group. 

 These were taken on the Brandreth Preserve in the Adiron- 

 dack^. Mr. Andrews was materially assisted by Mr. Courtney 

 Brandreth, who has executed the color sketch for the back- 

 ground. 



New metal cases have been installed for the reception of 

 the birds of the Congo Expedition, and considerable progress 



„ . „ ,. . has been made in the systematic rearrange- 



Study Collections _ . , . , , , 



ment of the mammals, both skins and skele- 

 tons, but this important work is still seriously delayed by lack 

 of storage facilities. While the collections are in safe condi- 

 tion, considerable parts of them are not readily accessible 

 for use. 



Curator Chapman has been unremittingly engaged upon 

 the birds received from the South American expeditions, and 

 _ . has so far completed their determination that his 



report on the birds of Colombia is nearing comple- 

 tion, in which will be presented the results of his studies of 

 the faunal zones of this highly diversified portion of South 

 America. Mr. George K. Cherrie has been engaged for several 

 months on the preparation of his report on the birds of the 

 Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition, on which he was one of the 

 Museum's representatives. Assistant Curator Andrews has 

 completed his monograph of the Sei Whale, which is now in 

 press; in addition to the anatomy, life history and relation- 

 ships of the species presented by Mr. Andrews, it will also 

 contain, as Part II, a detailed description of a foetus of this 

 whale, by Dr. H. von W. Schulte, based on a specimen col- 

 lected by Mr. Andrews. 



The Curator has completed and published his monographic 

 revision of the South American Sciuridae, and has in hand 

 nearly completed reports on, respectively, the mammals of 

 Colombia, the mammals of Ecuador, and the mammals of the 

 Roosevelt Brazilian Expedition. 



The publications of this department during the year com- 

 prise eight papers in the Bulletin and one in the Memoirs. 



„ , .. . The papers in the Bulletin aggregate about 200 



Publications . t , „ , 



pages, with 14 plates and 22 text figures; they 



include two papers by Curator Chapman describing many new 



