30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON THE BIRDS, 



By William Brewster. 



The more noteworthy additions to the Ornithological depart- 

 ment consist of five hundred and eighty-five skins and twenty- 

 seven sets of nests and eggs presented by Mr. A. Henry Higginson ; 

 two hundred and sixty-three skins of birds taken in California 

 and Arizona, seventeen mounted albino birds, and a pair of Ridg- 

 way's Quail, the gift of Mr. John E. Thayer; eighty-three skins 

 from Mr. E. L. Moseley's collecting, in large part during his con- 

 nection with the Steere Expedition to the Philippines, received 

 from Samuel Henshaw ; and thirty birds, either mounted or skins 

 taken in Iceland, given by Messrs. J. W. Hastings and L. J. de 

 G. de Milhau. For other acceptable material, acknowledgments 

 are due Mrs. C. L. Bullens, Mrs. E. H. Hal], Miss Pauline Gar- 

 man, and Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, H. B. Bigelow, 

 William Brewster, Owen Bryant, L. J. Cole, C. B. Davenport, 

 E. N. Fischer, Henry Hales, J. R. Mann, H. W. Miller, and 

 George Nelson. Some work has been done in the arrangement 

 of the nests and eggs and of the skeletons. The Exhibition case 

 of North American Passeres has been rearranged ; also the gen- 

 eral collection of skins in the families Mniotiltidae, Fringillidae, 

 Tanagridae, Icteridae, and following the Sharpe Hand List the 

 Bubonidae to the Cypselidae inclusive. 



In past reports I have made repeated mention of the Bryant 

 collection of birds. All the North American birds contained in 

 this large and extremely valuable collection have been examined, 

 relabelled, and in large part catalogued. 



