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cally studied. Reports on several groups have been prepared 

 and await publication. A paper on the insectivora is in press, 

 to be followed by others on the Sciuridae, Ano- 

 Research maluridse, Idiuridae and Viverridse; work is in 



Publication progress on the remaining groups of the Car- 

 nivora. The Curator has also in preparation a 

 paper on the classification and nomenclature of the smaller 

 spotted cats of Tropical America, the text and part of the 

 illustrations having been finished. Associate Curator Andrews 

 devoted several months to research work on the mammals col- 

 lected by him on his recent Asiatic Expedition, nearly complet- 

 ing an important revision of the Serows and Gorals when in- 

 terrupted by the preparations for his Second Asiatic Zoological 

 Expedition in June last, mentioned above. Associate Curator 

 Miller has continued his studies of the birds of Nicaragua, with 

 a view to early publication of a comprehensive report on the 

 ornithology of that country. Mr. George K. Cherrie has 

 practically completed his work on the birds of the Roosevelt 

 South American Expedition, but its publication has been de- 

 layed by his absence from the country on important war service. 



Assistant Curator Anthony's "The Indigenous Land Mam- 

 mals of Porto Rico, Living and Extinct," mentioned in the 

 report of last year as then in press, was considerably delayed 

 in publication, having been issued early in October of the pres- 

 ent year. It forms part II of Volume II of the New Series 

 of the Memoirs and is a monograph of 107 pages, 13 plates and 

 55 text figures, presenting the results of the author's explora- 

 tions in Porto Rico of an extinct mammal fauna, the existence 

 of which was previously almost unsuspected. 



Three papers, based on the material of this department, have 

 been published during the year in the Bulletin: "The external 

 Characters, skeletal Muscles, and peripheral Nerves of Kogia 

 breviceps (Blainville)," by H. von W. Schulte and M. de Forest 

 Smith (Vol. XXXVIII, pp. 7-72, text figs. 1-21); "Mem- 

 oranda upon the Anatomy of the Respiratory Tract, Foregut, 

 and Thoracic Viscera of a foetal Kogia breviceps," by John D. 

 Kernan and H. von W. Schulte (idem, pp. 231-267, text figs. 

 1-16) ; "The Skull of Ziphius cavirostris" by John D. Kernan 

 (idem, pp. 349-394, pll. xx-xxxii). A paper by Robert Cush- 



