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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



During the past year but few specimens have been added to the 

 study series of mammals. One fine collection made in Middle 

 Lower California by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., has been presented 

 by John E. Thayer, Esq. Acknowledgment for acceptable speci- 

 mens is also due to Messrs. Thomas Barbour, H. B. Bigelow, W. E. 

 Castle, A. P. Morse, George Nelson, and T. E. Proctor. 



Considerable material has been loaned to a number of systema- 

 tists, including our entire series of hares and rabbits to Mr. E. W. 

 Nelson of the U. S. Biological Survey. 



Publications. August 1, 1906-«/?^y 31, 1907. 



John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs. 



A new race of the Californian thrasher from Lower California. 



Proc. JST. E. zobl club, 30 April, 1907, vol. 4, p. 17-18. 

 Birds collected by W. W. Brown, Jr., on Cerros, San Benito, and 



Natividad islands, in the spring of 1906, with notes on the biota 



of the islands. Condor, May, 1907, vol. 9, p. 77-81. 

 Another hybrid hummingbird — Selasphorus rufus + Atthis calliope 



— from California. Auk, July, 1907, vol. 24, p. 312-313. 



Outram Bangs. 



On the wood rails, genus Aramides, occurring north of Panama. 



Amer. nat, March, 1907, vol. 41, p. 177-187. 

 A new race of the Hepatic tanager. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 



27 March, 1907, vol. 20, p. 29-30. 

 An owl, Rhinoptynx clamator (VieilL), added to the Costa Rican 



ornis. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 27 March, 1907, vol. 20, 



p. 31-32. 

 A new race of the Mangrove cuckoo, from Grenada and the Grena- 

 dines. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 18 April, 1907, vol. 20, 



p. 53-54. 

 A new spiny-tail from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. 



Proc Biol. soc. Washington, 18 April, 1907, vol. 20, p. 55-56. 

 On a collection of birds from western Costa Rica. Auk, July, 



1907, vol. 24, p. 287-312. 



