MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 21 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



In addition to the William Brewster bequest of skins, mounted 

 birds, nests and eggs, the largest single accession ever received 

 by the Ornithological Department, 608 bird skins have been added 

 to the collection. 



We are indebted to the U. S. National Museum for 192 bird 

 skins from Celebes, twenty-two of the fifty-nine species, hitherto 

 not in the collection; to Dr. Thomas Barbour for twenty skins 

 from Anticosti collected by Mr. W. S. Brooks and for 109 collected 

 by himself and Mr. Brooks in Cuba, Florida, and among the 

 Florida Keys. Single skins or small series have been presented 

 by Miss M. J. Sitgreaves and by Messrs. Thomas Barbour, W. 

 Cameron Forbes, G. E. Hodsdon, F. H. Kennard, T. E. Penard, 

 J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, O. W. Ricketson, L. C. Sanford, C. H. 

 Taylor, Roland Thaxter, and J. E. Thayer. 



Specimens have been received in exchange from the U. S. 

 Biological Survey, the Carnegie Museum, and from Messrs. H. R. 

 Coale, J. H. Fleming, Nagamichi Kuroda, L. C. Sanford, and A. 

 T. Wayne; Dr. Sanford 's series consisted of 101 skins, seventy- 

 three species, of which twenty-eight were new to the collection. 

 Skins have been sent in exchange to Messrs. Fleming, Kuroda, 

 Sanford, and Wayne, and to the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



For purposes of study, skins have been loaned to the American 

 Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum, the Field 

 Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 

 University of California, the U. S. Biological Survey, and to 

 Dr. C. H. Townsend. We are indebted to the American Museum 

 of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum, the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, and the U. S. National Museum, for the loan of 

 many bird skins. 



Messrs. T. E. Penard and F. H. Kennard continued their studies 

 during the year, and Mr. J. L. Peters was employed for five months, 

 assisting in the general work of the Department. 



