MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. at 
REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 

By WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
Durinc the past year the following birds have been purchased 
for the Museum: from Mr. J. 8S. Warmbath, thirty-two skins of 
water-birds, (Alcidae and Laridae) taken in Ellesmere Land and 
Greenland; from Mr. Rowland Ward, a South African Ostrich 
CStruthio australis, male); from Mr. H.’W. Henshaw, a pair of 
Palilas (Loxioides bailleuc) from Hawaii. 
By exchange we have obtained from the West Australian 
Museum twenty-three skins representing nineteen species of Aus- 
tralian birds, and from Mr. Outram Bangs a specimen of the 
rare, and perhaps already extinct, St. Vincent Parrot (Amazona 
guildingt). 
The Museum has acquired by gift: from Colonel John E. 
Thayer, a Parrot ( Calopsittacus novae-hollandiae, male) from Aus- 
tralia, and five hundred and sixty-six skins of Central American 
birds, representing over one hundred different species, collected 
on Gorgona Island, on the Pearl Islands, and at Panama, by Mr. 
Wilmot W. Brown; from Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, 
and Owen Bryant, ninety-nine skins representing thirty-seven 
species, with a few nests and eggs, collected in the Bahamas; 
from Mr. Thomas Barbour the skin of a New Guinea Green Parrot 
(Kelectus pectoralis, male) taken in New Guinea, and a partial 
albino House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) from Massachusetts ; 
from Mr. Walter Faxon, the skin of a Black-billed Cuckoo ( Coc- 
cyzus erythrophthalmus, female) obtained in Massachusetts; from 
Mr. Robert Rogers, a Flicker (Colaptes auratus luteus) taken in 
Massachusetts; from Mrs. J. W. Elliot, a skin of a Tree Duck 
(Dendrocygna eytont) from Queensland. 
A small series of North American birds’ eggs has also been 
received from some source at present unknown to the authorities 
of the Museum. 
A rearrangement of our general collection of labelled and cata- 
logued bird skins in accordance with the system followed in Dr, 
