26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



The more notable additions to the collection are : — 900 speci- 

 mens from Java collected by Drs. Owen Bryant and William 

 Palmer and presented by Drs. J. C. Phillips, Thomas Barbour, and 

 Mr. J. E. Thayer, which, with the species already in the collection, 

 give the Museum a nearly complete representation of Javanese 

 mammals; 375 skulls and horns principally of game mammals and 

 including many species not previously represented in the collec- 

 tion, the type of Felis improcera Phillips, and a series of Prong- 

 horns from Lower California, the gift of Dr. J. C. Phillips; eighty 

 skins and skulls from the Mackenzie Delta collected by Mr. H. H. 

 Jones and forty skins and skulls from Pinte Mountains, California, 

 presented b} r Mr. J. E. Thayer; sixty Cuban bats, including four 

 species new to the collection, collected and presented by Dr. 

 Thomas Barbour; about one hundred skulls, including some rare 

 forms, given by Dr. R. T. Jackson; portions of a Cuban Megal- 

 onyx, the gift of Prof. Carlos de la Torre; a series of Capromys 

 thoracatus collected on Swan Island by Mr. George Nelson and 

 a small, but rather interesting series of mammals collected in 

 extreme southern Mexico along the border of British Honduras 

 by Mr. J. L. Peters. 



Single specimens or small series have been received from Drs. 

 Thomas Barbour, Allen Cleghorn, Manton Copeland, W. C. 

 Farabee, J. C. Phillips, the late W. McM. Woodworth, and from 

 Messrs. Samuel Henshaw, W. M. Mann, John Murdoch Jr., 

 J. R. T. Mulholland, J. E. Thayer, and W. R. Zappey. 



A grey seal and six mammals from Madagascar were purchased. 



Publications. August 1, 1911-July 31, 1912. 



John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs. 



A new race of great blue heron from Espiritu Santo Island, Lower 

 California. Proc. N. E. zool. club, 23 February, 1912, vol. 4, 

 p. 83-84. 

 Outram Bangs. 



The Florida song sparrow. Proc. N. E. zool. club, 5 June, 1912, 



vol. 4, p. 85-87. 

 A new subspecies of the ruffed grouse. Auk, July, 1912, vol. 29, p. 

 378-379. 



