6 AlNNUAL report of the 



Additional specimens from British East Africa have been 

 received from Mr. Childs Frick. Mr. Prick, accompanied by 

 Mr. W. R. Zappey as his Assistant, hunted in British East Africa 

 from December, 1909, until March, L910, and has been so good as 

 to give the Museum some acceptable invertebrates as well as the 

 collections of birds and small mammals that he secured. Mr. 

 Frick's series is a most useful supplement to the Smith-Allen- 

 Brooks collection, as it was obtained at a different time of the year. 



To Dr. John C. Phillips the Museum owes thanks for an im- 

 portant collection of skins of Mexican birds. The Museum's 

 series of birds from Middle America is an especially large and 

 valuable one and Dr. Phillips's gift of over 2,000 skins obtained 

 principally in Tamaulipas, Mexico, by Mr. George B. Armstrong 

 fills one of the gaps from which, geographically, material was 

 most needed. 



The Museum is indebted to Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant for many 

 additions to its series of New England spiders; she has also worked 

 over portions of the collection of spiders and has given considerable 

 time to the study and preservation of the same. 



Mr. Thomas Barbour has, as in previous years, enhanced the 

 value of the research collections of reptiles and amphibians by 

 his gifts of very many rare and valuable species and also by his 

 voluntary work of identification, together with much of the 

 attendant museum drudgery. A noteworthy addition received 

 from him is an excellent specimen of the rare Chinese Alligator, 

 Alligator siiiensis (cf. Proc. Acad. nat. sci. Phila., 1910, p. 464). 

 Mr. Barbour's gifts are not confined, however, to the groups in 

 which he is especially interested; among much desirable material 

 he has given a Japanese Serow, Nemorrhaedus crispus, and a 

 living example of the Bahama Parrot, Amazona bahamensis, a 

 species whose extinction is probably a matter of a few years only ; 

 important additions to the collections of mammals and birds, of 

 insects, shells and other invertebrates are included in Mr. Bar- 

 bour's various donations. 



For a specimen of the rare West African Forest Pig, Hylochoerus 

 rimaior, the Museum has to thank Mr. William Barbour, and for a 

 number of small Irish mammals mounted for the exhibition 

 collection similar thanks are due Mr. J. R. T. Mulholland. 



The Museum of Zoology of the University of Cambridge (Eng- 



