54 Report of the President 



assistants, among whom were George K. Cherrie and Louis A. 

 Fuertes, the latter as the artist of the expedition, spent several 

 months in the exploration of the Eastern Andes, making a 

 biological survey of a section across the Andes from the 

 Magdalena River to the headwaters of the Orinoco drainage 

 southeast of Bogota, returning with a collection of about 

 2,000 birds and mammals and the necessary studies and 

 accessories for a group illustrative of the bird life of the 

 region. 



Field work was continued by Leo E. Miller in northeastern 

 Venezuela and in British Guiana. An attempt to reach the 

 unexplored Mount Duida, on the upper Orinoco, proved 

 unsuccessful owing to the inaccessible character of the country 

 and the severe illness of his associate on the expedition, F. X. 

 Iglseder. William B. Richardson has continued his explora- 

 tions in Ecuador, from the arid coast region to the alpine zone 

 of Mounts Chimborazo and Pichincha. His collections num- 

 ber nearly 2,000 specimens, and include accessories and 

 specimens for a group representing the bird life of the upper 

 life zone of Mount Pichincha. 



Through the kind invitation of Theodore Roosevelt, 

 the Museum has been able to send two of our expert 

 collectors, Messrs. Miller and Cherrie, to Paraguay, where 

 they have been successfully collecting for some weeks and 

 are about to start north through little-known parts of the 

 interior of Brazil, as attaches of Colonel Roosevelt's South 

 American Expedition. The Museum's expenses in connection 

 with this expedition have been met by the generosity of Cleve- 

 land H. Dodge. 



The past summer Assistant Curator Andrews accepted the 

 invitation of John Borden of Chicago to accompany him on 

 his yacht on an expedition to Bering Sea to obtain a skeleton 

 of the Bowhead Whale, but unfavorable ice conditions ren- 

 dered it impossible to reach the whaling grounds. Motion 

 picture films illustrating seal life on the Pribilof Islands, how- 

 ever, were obtained, and several caribou and other large game 

 specimens were secured in Alaska. 



Robert C. Murphy, who was in charge of the Museum's 

 expedition to South Georgia, organized in cooperation with 



