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REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



Only one bird, I believe, has been purchased by the Museum 

 during the current year; this is a Passenger Pigeon, female, which 

 was taken at Taylor, Wisconsin, in May, 1887. By exchange 

 with the Brooklyn Institute we have secured a pair of Hoatzins 

 (Opisthocomus hoazin) from Venezuela. 



By gift the Museum has received the following birds : — From: 

 Mr. Thomas Barbour, one hundred and fifty skins from New 

 Guinea, Dutch East Indies, and India; from Mr. George Nelson, 

 one hundred and eleven skins most of w-hich were obtained in 

 New England; from Dr. C. W. Townsend, seven skins from 

 Labrador and Newfoundland; from Mr. Samuel Henshaw an 

 interesting Warbler killed in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, on June 

 13, 1907, and believed to be a hybrid between Helminthophila 

 pinus and H. leucobronchialis (see Auk, 1907, vol. 24, p. 443-444, 

 446); from Col. John E. Thayer an albino Surf Scoter taken at 

 Cohasset, Mass., on October 6, 1900. For other acceptable con- 

 tributions the Museum is indebted to Miss Margaret Whyte, 

 and to Messrs. Outram Bangs, J. H. Blake, G. H. Cox, C. B. 

 Davenport, Walter Deane, C. E. Faxon, Walter Faxon, W. L. 

 Holden, A. P. Morse, A. S. Pearse, F. W. Putnam, J. T. Reagan, 

 G. H. Roulston and William Sullivan. 



