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REPORT OX THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 



By Thomas Barbour. 



The year has been a most eventful one for this Department, 

 and an unusual number of species previously unrepresented in 

 the collection have been received. Chief among these was the 

 splendid series secured by Dr. W. M. Mann in the Fiji and Solo- 

 mon Islands. 



Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L. Peters secured some interest- 

 ing species in Porto Rico. Mr. Peters subsequently collected 

 desirable forms on Anegada, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda. He also 

 visited St. Thomas and some of the smaller islets. The Associate 

 Curator visited Cuba during January-March, and had the enthusi- 

 astic and untiring aid of Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin 

 Warner. These gentlemen also spent several weeks in the Isle 

 of Pines, and secured there additional material. Dr. Ruthven 

 of the University of Michigan has continued his very kind gifts of 

 para types of the new forms which he describes from South America. 

 Many other valued specimens have been received from him in 

 exchange. 



Through unusual good fortune, a fine skeleton of an adult 

 Tomistoma from Sarawak was obtained, as also specimens of the 

 excessively rare Hyla lichenoid from Jamaica. Some rare North 

 American species collected in Arizona were also purchased. But 

 few exchanges were completed this year, these having been with 

 the U. S. National Museum, the University of Michigan Museum, 

 and the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Each of 

 these institutions has likewise loaned and borrowed material for 

 study. Thanks are due to Dr. M. Grabham of Jamaica and Dr. 

 A. W. Sellards of the Harvard Medical School for welcome gifts. 



