
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27 
REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 
By WILLIAM BREWSTER. 
Within the year the Museum has acquired about sixteen hundred 
bird skins, mostly by gift. Hon. W. Cameron Forbes has given 
five hundred and thirty-five collected by him personally in the 
Philippine Islands, representing one hundred and_ninety-four 
species or subspecies of which no less than seventy-one are new to 
the collection, besides one hundred and twenty more which he 
obtained in Cuba, Jamaica and Guatemala, during the spring of 
1914. Among the latter are two Bahaman Swallows taken in 
northeastern Cuba — an interesting and novel instance of occur- 
rence for the species. 
Col. John E. Thayer has contributed four hundred and sixty-one 
specimens, of which one hundred were collected in Siberia by 
Johan Koren and three hundred near Colima, Mexico, by Gustav 
Gliickert; the others coming chiefly from Alaska, Texas, and New 
Mexico. Thirty of the Mexican and several of the Siberian 
species were hitherto unrepresented in the collection. 
Dr. John C. Phillips has presented one hundred and ninety 
skins, mostly of House Sparrows (one hundred and eighty-six 
in number) from various parts of Europe and America, which 
were obtained for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent — 
if any — the birds introduced into this country have since varied 
from Old World forms. 
Rey. George Schwab has given ninety-seven birds collected in 
Kamerun and representing forty-seven species of which only 
seventeen were possessed by the Museum. 
The Officials of the Boston Zodlogical Garden at Franklin 
Park have kindly sent, from time to time, various interesting birds 
which have died in captivity. 
The Museum is indebted for gifts of small series of bird skins 
or for single specimens to Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, 
Charles Bullard, R. T. Fisher, E. L. Mark, George Nelson, G. K. 
Noble, Harold St. John, R. W. Sayles, G. W. Stevens, F.S. Sturgis, 
W. M. Tyler, J. B. Woodworth, and the late W. R. Zappey. 
