16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



The Museum has received 389 bird skins by gift, 271 by pur- 

 chase, sixty-four by exchange. Thus the total number added 

 within the year scarce exceeds 700, as compared with upwards 

 of 900 in 1916-1917 and about 5,500 in 1915-1916. This numer- 

 ical falling off is not surprising in times like these, when such 

 material cannot be sought freely. 



Dr. Thomas Barbour has given us seventy-one birds, mostly 

 from Australia, New Guinea, and Cuba, among which are repre- 

 sentatives of no less than forty-six species or subspecies not 

 hitherto possessed by the Museum; Mr. F. F. Jonesberg, 111, 

 collected in Surinam by A. P. Penard, representing eighty species 

 or subspecies of which four are new to us; Mr. G. K. Noble, 

 110 New England birds, almost all taken by him in or near 

 Cambridge. 



For specimens contributed in smaller series or singly, the Museum 

 is indebted to Miss Mary T. Palmer, and to Messrs. H. B. Bigelow 

 (for a Hutchins's Goose killed at Pea Island, North Carolina, 

 January 1, 1918), G. B. Brainard (for a Prairie Horned Dove 

 having only one wing and apparently never possessed of any other 

 although found running about in a field at Gloucester, Mass., 

 December 24, 1917), William Brewster (for fifty-one birds collected 

 by A. T. Wayne near Charleston, South Carolina), W. B. Cabot, 

 Walter Faxon, W. Cameron Forbes, J. B. Goodwin, J. A. Hagar, 

 F. H. Kennard, F. S. Kingsbury, C. R. Lamb, W. M. Mann, 

 George Nelson, T. E. Penard (for six type specimens of Surinam 

 birds) Bene van Rippen (for twelve birds from Portuguese East 

 Africa), G. A. Stiles, and W. M. Tyler. 



Of purchased skins twenty-five came from the Hawaiian Islands 

 and 245 from the Cameroons, the former representing three, the 

 latter thirty-eight, birds new to the Museum. 



The specimens obtained by exchange include representatives of 

 about thirty-five species or subspecies not heretofore in the Mu- 

 seum. Most of them were furnished by Dr. L. C. Sanford, Mr. 



