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REPORT ON MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



By J. A. Allen. 



Mammals. — The additions during the year include forty-five 

 mounted specimens, ten skins, fourteen mounted skeletons, seven 

 disarticulated skeletons, and ten skulls. Among the mounted 

 specimens are a fine male gorilla, a young chimpanzee, female 

 and young orang, an Indian tapir, a Sumatran rhinoceros, a giant 

 armadillo, several sloths, and various monkeys. The mounted 

 skeletons include a gorilla and an orang. 



The fossil mammals collected during the season of 1881, by 

 Mr. Gar man in Wyoming and by Mr. Sternberg in Kansas, came 

 to hand too late to receive satisfactory mention in the report for 

 that year. The Wyoming collection embraced very fine skulls of 

 two species of large-horned perissodactyles, besides additional 

 material of much value pertaining to many of the species repre- 

 sented in Mr. Garman's first collection from the same region, 

 noticed in the Report for 1879-80. Mr. Sternberg's collection 

 contained nearly perfect skulls of three species of rhinoceros, 

 lower jaws of adult and young examples of a mastodon of the 

 genus Tetralophodon, together with remains of horse, camel, 

 deer, rodents, and carnivores, — the two last-named groups being 

 each represented by several species. These gentlemen have suc- 

 cessfully continued their explorations during the past season, but 

 their collections have not yet reached the Museum. 



Birds. — Four hundred species of mounted birds have been 

 added to the collection by purchase, and over one hundred have 

 been mounted from skins previously in the collection, making an 

 aggregate addition of over six hundred specimens to the exhi- 

 bition series. About six hundred and fifty skins have been re- 

 ceived. These include about two hundred from Queensland, 

 representing one hundred and eighteen species, and thirty-one 

 from Western Asia, both collections added by exchange ; two 



