4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Board, who granted a special permit to collect a few specimens of 

 birds rigidly protected by law. 



Undeterred by the irksome monotony of an Arctic winter, Mr. 

 W. S. Brooks visited the Falkland Islands, collecting there during 

 1915-1916 (October to February). He obtained more than 300 

 birds, many of especial interest and most of those peculiar to the 

 islands, with the exception of the forms confined to the outer 

 islands, which he was unable to reach. Mr. Brooks also collected 

 a few fishes, and some insects and other invertebrates. These 

 Falkland Island collections have been given to the Museum by 

 Dr. John C. Phillips through whose liberal support Mr. Brooks's 

 trip was undertaken. 



By the generosity of Mrs. Ezra R. Thayer, Mrs. Charles G. 

 Weld, and Dr. Thomas Barbour, the Museum was able to send 

 Mr. J. L. Peters to Santo Domingo, where, during the spring of 

 1916, he secured more than 400 bird skins. 



Mr. F. R. Wulsin spent the greater part of 1915 in British East 

 Africa and Madagascar, conducting most successfully two expedi- 

 tions wholly in the interest of the Museum. Large series of 

 mammals, birds, and reptiles were obtained in both localities, 

 those from the vicinity of Mt. Kenia and Lake Victoria supple- 

 menting the earlier African collections of Dr. W. L. Smith and 

 Mr. Childs Frick. Mr. Wulsin's four months' (June-September, 

 1915), work in Madagascar, yielded 24 species of recent mammals, 

 121 species of birds, large series of reptiles and amphibians, and 

 a considerable collection of insects. Especial mention should be 

 made of three fine exhibition fossils contained in Mr. Wulsin's 

 collections; these are a cranium of Crocodilus robustus, a right 

 tibia of one of the giant aepyornid birds, and the skull of a 

 species of Hippopotamus. All the expenses of these two expedi- 

 tions were paid by Mr. Wulsin, to whose generosity the Museum 

 is greatly indebted. 



During the summer of 1915, Mr. Henry R. Amory visited, in his 

 schooner yacht the Kitty A, the Azores and Canary Islands. 

 Working among these islands and in the vicinity of Mogador, 

 Morocco, Mr. Amory and his assistants collected a representative 

 series of birds and a number of other animals. The expedition 

 of the Kitty A was supported wholly by Mr. Amory, who most 

 kindly undertook it in the interest of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



With the aid of a grant from the Frederick Sheldon Fund for 

 Travelling Fellowships, Dr. W. M. Mann continued his post- 



