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REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 



By William Brewster. 



Upwards of twenty-six hundred bird skins have been added 

 to the Museum collection within the year. Some twelve hundred 

 of these were acquired by gift. We are indebted to Prof. Theodore 

 Lyman for two hundred and eighty-seven, obtained by him and 

 Mr. Ned Hollister in the Altai Mountains, representing fifty-three 

 species or subspecies, of which three were new to science and twenty- 

 three to the collection; to Dr. John C. Phillips, for three hundred 

 and forty-five — the total avian spoils of the expedition made by 

 him, in company with Dr. Glover M. Allen, into the Sudan — 

 spoils which comprised many species hitherto not in the collection 

 and at least two not before described; to Mr. Clarence L. Hay, 

 for three hundred and seventy-four collected in the extreme south- 

 ern part of Mexico, along the borders of Honduras, by Mr. J. L. 

 Peters; to Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, for one hundred and six 

 secured by him in the Philippines, and including seventeen species 

 not before represented; to Dr. Thomas Barbour and Mr. Louis A. 

 Shaw, for one hundred obtained by them in Cuba, among which 

 are some of the rarest forms known to still exist on that island; 

 to Col. John E. Thayer, for fifty-four — including Kirtland's 

 Warbler and other rarities — procured in the Bahamas by Mr. 

 C. J. Maynard, and for seventeen — representing sixteen species 

 of which two were new to us — taken in Porto Rico by Mr. W. W. 

 Worthington; to Mr. George V. Leverett, for an excellent skin 

 of the well-nigh extinct Eskimo Curlew; to Mr. Gardner Perry, 

 for a Bahama Pintail (Poecilonetta bahamensis) shot by him at 

 Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the first of its kind known to have 

 occurred within the United States (recorded in The Auk for 

 January, 1913). Additional contributions of skins have been 

 received from Messrs. Barbour, Phillips, Quincy A. Shaw 2nd, 

 George C. Shattuck, Harrison W. Smith, J. D. Sornborger, John 

 E. Thayer, Carlos de la Torre, and W. R. Zappey. The Museum 

 is indebted to Mr. G. W. Stevens for the gift of ten sets of two 

 eggs each of the Mississippi Kite, collected by him in Oklahoma. 



