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indebted to Clarence H. Eagle for a collection of North 

 American birds, numbering about 850 specimens; J. T. Lloyd 

 has presented 45 bird skins from Samoa, and Carl E. Akeley 

 5 specimens of adult and young Ibises from British East Africa, 

 which proved to represent a new genus. 



The important additions by purchase include collections of 

 both birds and mammals from China, Chile and East Africa, 

 the latter including 2 Forest Pigs and 10 Elephant skulls. 



Expeditions. — The Stefansson-Anderson Expedition to 

 arctic America returned late in the year, after an absence of 

 more than four years. The zoological material secured is of 

 special interest. The collection includes 139 mammals and 218 

 birds, with about 100 sets of eggs of arctic breeding birds. 

 The mammals include series of Barren Ground Caribou from 

 widely separated localities, and 18 skins and skulls of the little 

 known Barren Ground Bear, suitable for mounting as well as 

 for study. The smaller mammals are well represented. 



Assistant Curator Andrews's expedition to Korea was highly 

 successful. After obtaining certain special desiderata of 

 whales on the coast, including skeletons of the nearly extinct 

 California Gray Whale, and of the Pacific Humpback and 

 Killer Whales, he made a trip into the unexplored northern 

 part of Korea, where he collected small mammals and birds, 

 about 175 specimens of each. These will doubtless prove to 

 include a number of undescribed forms. 



Assistant H. E. Anthony spent several weeks collecting 

 mammals and birds in eastern Oregon, with excellent results, 

 this portion of the West being previously wholly unrepresented 

 in our collections. Several species of mammals new to science 

 were obtained, and a large series of specimens of the rare 

 Idaho Pygmy Rabbit. 



The Congo Expedition, under the leadership of Messrs. 

 Lang and Chapin, is still in the field, but is preparing to return 

 with the immense collections accumulated during three years 

 of highly successful work in African jungles. 



The Colombian Expedition has been continued and work 

 prosecuted from the low humid coast region into the Central 

 Andes to altitudes of about 15,000 feet, and later to the 



