22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



The additions to our bird collection during the past year are 

 as follows : Four hundred and fifty-three skins from Borneo, 

 Sumatra, New Guinea, and other islands of the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, obtained by exchange from Dr. Otto Finsch, of the Rijks 

 Museum at Leyden, Holland ; one hundred and five skins from the 

 Liu Kiu Island, bought of Alan Owston and prepared by Ishida 

 Zensaku and other Japanese collectors ; one hundred and fifty- 

 six skins and two alcoholic specimens of New Zealand birds, 

 bought of S. Dannefaerd, of Auckland ; about ninety sterna of 

 North American birds collected and presented by Dr. A. K. Fisher ; 

 five skins obtained at the Maidive Islands by Mr. H. P. Bigelow 

 (on Mr. Agassiz's last expedition) ; a White Pelican (Pelecanus 

 erytlirorhynchus), and a Cassowary (Casuarius australis), received 

 by gift from " Bostock's Animal Arena " ; a mounted Penguin 

 (Spheniscus mendiculus), taken at the Galapagos Islands and pur- 

 chased from the Frank Blake Webster Company ; a Fish Hawk 

 (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis), shot at Arlington, Massachusetts, 

 on September 20, 1901, and presented by Mr. F. Lamkin ; and an 

 abnormal egg of the Robin (Merula migratoria), the gift of Mr. 

 Harold P. Bowditch. 



A number of Swallows and Pipit3 have been sent to Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway for study and comparison in connection with his forth- 

 coming work on the Birds of North and Middle America. With 

 the assistance of Miss Parker the skins in the North American 

 collection have been re-arranged, so as to bring together within 

 each series, (1) birds of the same sex, and (2) those from the same 

 localities. During the progress of this task many duplicate skins 

 have been extracted for use in future exchanges. 



