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mostly rarities. About six hundred skins previously in the col- 

 lection have been mounted, making the total number of mounted 

 birds added during the last year something over one thousand. 



Among the noteworthy special collections added by purchase 

 may be mentioned a collection of skins and skeletons of both 

 Mammals and Birds from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, numbering 

 seventy-three mammals and three hundred and thirty birds ; two 

 hundred and five bird-skins (forty-five species) from the island of 

 Santa Lucia, W. I. ; sixty-seven bird-skins (thirty-three species) 

 from Yucua, Venezuela ; one hundred and forty-five bird-skins 

 (twenty-five species), and sixteen skins of Mammals, from the 

 island of Grenada, W. I. By exchange there have been added 

 one hundred and twenty-five bird-skins (eighty species) from 

 Australia ; forty-two bird-skins (thirty-eight species) from New 

 Caledonia and Loyalty Islands ; fifty species of bird-skins from 

 Cochin China ; and a small collection of mounted birds from 

 Porto Rico, W. I. 



The mounted specimens, both of Mammals and Birds, have 

 been selected mainly to complete the North American Faunal 

 collection, and to supply material for the South American and 

 Australian Faunal collections, which are now both well advanced. 

 The additions have been duly catalogued, and the collections con- 

 tinue in a satisfactorily safe condition. 



