24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



The Department of Birds has received the following additions 

 during the current year : About one thousand bird skins, of which 

 five hundred and eighty-four were obtained in Australia, and two 

 hundred and fifty-six in the Hawaiian Islands, by the late M. J. 

 Flood, the remainder being from various parts of Europe, pre- 

 sented by Oliver Flood, of Leominster, Massachusetts ; one hun- 

 dred and twelve skins, a number of alcoholic specimens, three 

 nests, and a few eggs, collected during the past year in Yucatan 

 for Mr. Agassiz, by L. J. Cole ; fifteen skins of Yucatan birds, 

 presented by Dr. George F. Gaumer ; one hundred and seven skins 

 and thirty-six eggs, chiefly of North American birds, presented 

 by T. Barbour ; the skin of a hybrid duck ( Anas boschas x Dafila 

 acuta) shot by Dr. John Bryant at Currituck Sound, North Caro- 

 lina, that of an albino Field Sparrow taken by Louis Cabot, Esq., 

 at Elmwood, North Carolina, sixteen eggs collected in Wyoming, 

 by Dr. William S. Bryant, two sterna (one of Centuras radiolatits, 

 the other of Columba leucocephala) and the dried tongue of a 

 Honey Creeper (Certhiola bahamensis), all presented by H. B. 

 Bigelow ; two skins of Australian birds (Merops ornatus and 

 Pardalotus punetatus), presented by Outram Bangs ; two nests 

 of the Cassique (Ostinops) from Yucatan, presented by G. B. 

 Gordon ; and the skin of an Anhinga from Yucatan, presented 

 by E. H. Thomson. During the year upwards of four hundred 

 birds have been loaned to specialists for study and comparison. 



I have published during the year : — 



In the Auk : — 



Further Notes on the Philadelphia Vireo, with Description of the 

 Nest and Eggs. 



An Interesting Solitaiy Vireo ( Vireo solitarius). 



In Bird-Lore : — 



A Tragedy in Nature. 



