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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. 



Br Outram Bangs. 



The additions to the mammal collections during the year by 

 gift, exchange, and purchase are as follows : — 



Five hundred and fifty-five skulls and three hundred and five 

 skins, many with skulls, collected in Labrador by Mr. J. D. Sorn- 

 borger ; purchased. One hundred and seven skins and skulls col- 

 lected in Honduras by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., and presented by 

 Messrs. E. A. and 0. Bangs. A mounted skeleton of Ornitho- 

 rhynchus anatinus ; purchased from Roland Ward. A mounted 

 specimen of Criraffa camelopardis collected in East Africa by Mr. 

 P. H. G. Powell Cotton; purchased from Roland Ward. Other 

 acquisitions make a total of one thousand and twenty-four 

 specimens. 



The Museum is indebted for gifts to Messrs. J. H. Blake, E. A. 

 and 0. Bangs, W. E. Castle, H. B. Bigelow, G. Nelson, C. S. 

 Brimley, and T. Barbour. 



Material has been lent to Messrs. A. H. Howell, F. M. Chapman, 

 C. Hart Merriam, D. G. Elliot, J. A. Allen, and Vernon Bailey. 



The Museum collections of alcoholic bats have been returned by 

 the Marquis Doria of Genoa, to whom they were loaned for study 

 some years ago. 



I have published during the year : — 



In the Auk : — 



A New Long-billed Marsh Wren from Eastern North America. 



Vol. XIX. pp. 349-353. 1902. 

 The Occurrence of Boobies in Numbers on the East Coast of Florida 



during a Storm. Vol. XIX. pp. 395-396. 1902. 



In the Bulletin of the Museum : — 



Birds and Mammals from Honduras. Vol. XXXIX. No. 6. pp. 

 141-159. 1903. 



