24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



By gift the more important additions to the collection are: — 

 a fine series of about 150 specimens from the Altai Mountains 

 from Prof. Theodore Lyman; a similar series of Sudanese mammals 

 from Dr. J. C. Phillips, this series includes the skins and skeletons 

 of ten species of antelopes; a series of Lower Calif ornian prong- 

 horns and coyotes also from Dr. Phillips, specimens from the 

 Pinte Mountains, southern California, from Col. J. E. Thayer; 

 about fifty bats and a valuable series of three species of Capromys 

 from Dr. Thomas Barbour; and West Indian bats from Prof. 

 Roland Thaxter and Dr. J. A. Cushman. 



Single specimens have been received from Mrs. Thomas Barbour, 

 Drs. L. S. Hapgood, G. C. Shattuck, and H. W. Smith, Col. John 

 Caswell and from Messrs. E. H. Baynes, M. L. Church, W. C. 

 Forbes, Samuel Henshaw, George Nelson, J. L. Peters, R. W. 

 Sayles, L. A. Shaw, and J. D. Sornborger. 



In exchange specimens have been received from Prof. Wily 

 Ktikenthal, the U. S. National Museum, and the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



A collection of about forty skins and skulls from Yunan and 

 Tonkin was obtained by purchase. This series contains several 

 new and rare species. 



Publications. August 1, 1912 -July 31, 1913. 



John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs. Some Chinese vertebrates. 



Aves. Mem. M. C. Z., August, 1912, 40, p. 137-200, pi. 3-6. 

 Outram Bangs. Some birds from the Highlands of Siberia. Bull. 



M. C. Z., January, 1913, 54, p. 461-474. 

 New birds from Cuba and the Isle of Pines. Proc. N. E. zool. club, 



31 March, 1913, 4, p. 89-92. 

 The green heron of the Maldives. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 



3 May, 1913, 26, p. 93-94. 

 A new warbler from western China. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 



3 May, 1913, 26, p. 95-96. 

 The land mammals of Newfoundland. Bull. M. C. Z. y July, 1913, 



64, p. 507-516. 



