MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



By gift the Museum has acquired upwards of sixteen hundred 

 birds. Mr. John E. Thayer has individually contributed two 

 hundred and forty-six of these and Dr. John C. Phillips two hun- 

 dred and twenty-seven. Through the efforts of these gentlemen 

 almost one thousand more specimens — collected in Java by Dr. 

 Owen Bryant and Dr. William Palmer and representing no less 

 than one hundred and seven species and subspecies new to our col- 

 lection, have been obtained. Mrs. Walter Channing has kindly 

 placed at our disposal an interesting little collection made, half a 

 century ago, by her father, the late Henry D, Morse of Boston. 

 Mr. Bangs has selected from it seventy-one specimens among 

 which are representatives of three species which we did not before 

 possess — besides an Esquimaux Curlew and an Ivory-billed Wood- 

 pecker. The remaining seventy-three skins have been sent, at 

 Mrs. Channing's request, to Mr. Arthur C. Bent for the Museum 

 of the Bristol County Academy of Sciences. For gifts of single 

 birds or of small series of specimens we are indebted to Messrs. 

 L. A. Baer, Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, H. B. Bigelow, 

 W. A. Carriker, E. A. Codman, Walter Faxon, F. A. Fenger, 

 Roger S. Hardy, Samuel Henshaw, L. J. de G. de Milhau, Mason 

 Mitchell, Stanley W. Smith, A. M. Tozzer, S. B. Wolbach, and 

 W. R. Zappey. One of the two birds contributed by Mr. Henshaw 

 is a young Saw-whet Owl in first plumage found dead near the 

 Museum, 10 July, 1911. Another specimen possessing similar 

 local interest is an adult male Barrow's Golden-eye given us by 

 Mr. S. W. Smith and shot by him at South Orleans, Massa- 

 chusetts, on 1 December, 1911. 



One hundred birds taken in the neighborhood of Pavik, Finmark, 

 have been obtained by purchase and fifty-seven were collected for 

 the Museum on Swan Island in the Caribbean Sea by Mr. George 

 Nelson. 



Exchanges have been made with the U. S. National Museum and 

 with Mr. H. K. Coale. Upwards of one thousand skins have been 



