MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27 



EEPORT ON THE MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



The past year has been uneventful in tins department. The 

 only acquisitions have been a Newfoundland Caribou (Rangifer 

 terrce-novce Bangs), male, bought of and mounted by J. H. Clark ; 

 a skin, a skull, and an alcoholic specimen of a buff-colored variety 

 of the House Mouse (Mus musculus), and a skin of the Yellow-bel- 

 lied Flycatcher (Empidonax jiaviventris) taken at Lanesborough, 

 Berkshire County, Massachusetts, June 1, 1898, presented by Wal- 

 ter Faxon ; two eggs of a " large species of Black Tern " from the 

 Fiji Islands, presented by Mr. Agassiz ; a nest of the Kingbird 

 (^Tyrannus tyrannus), from Jaffrey, New Hampshire, presented 

 by Miss Bertha Parker ; and a nest and one egg of the Redstart, 

 (Setophaga ruticilla), from Lincoln, Massachusetts, presented by 

 W. McM. Woodworth. 



The Assistant has published the following articles and notes. 



In « The Auk " : — 



Geotrygon chrysea again at Key West. 



Occurrence of the Spotted Screech Owl (Megascops aspersus) in 

 Arizona. 



Lewis's Woodpecker Storing Acorns. 



Revival of the Sexual Passion in Birds in Autumn. 



In "The Osprey " : — 



Notes on the American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides ameri- 

 canus). 



In the " Boston Evening Transcript " : — 



A Letter criticising the Management of the Park Systems. 



