MAMMALS AND BIRDS 



EXPEDITIONS 



In addition to the material acquired through gift and purchase, Bison Group, 

 the various expeditions sent out in the interest of this department 

 have procured many valuable specimens which have contributed to 

 both the exhibition and the study series. The first organized expedi- 

 tion sent out from the Museum was the one from this Department in 

 1886, when Dr. Daniel G. Elliot and Mr. Jenness Richardson went to 

 Montana in search of material for the Bison group. 



Of the six specimens in the Moose group, completed in 1895, two Moose Group. 

 were obtained on expeditions to Maine in 1888 and New Brunswick 

 in 1884. One was presented by Mr. John L. Cox, and another by Dr. 

 E. A. Mearns, while the other two were purchased. 



The specimens for the Wapiti group, with the exception of the Wapiti 

 large male, were collected in the Olympic Mountains in Washington 

 in 1900 by Mr. C. Lincoln Free. This group was completed in 1906. 



The Collared Peccary group, mounted in 1905, was obtained in Collared 



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Sinaloa, Mexico, by Mr. J. H. Batty on his expedition in 1902. On the Group, 

 same expedition he also collected the material for the California mule- California 

 deer group, which was mounted in 1905. Group. 



Grant's caribou was discovered by Mr. Andrew J. Stone on an ex- Grant's 



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pedition to Alaska and British Columbia in 1901-3. The specimens c 



for this group, completed in 1902, were obtained in the extreme west- 

 ern end of the Alaskan peninsula. This expedition also provided the 

 specimens for the Dall sheep group, completed in 1909, as well as a Dan sheep 

 large and important collection of other mammals. Especially note- roup ' 

 worthy are the series of the golden lemming, Osborn caribou, and 

 the Stone sheep, both of the latter being species new to science. 



Through the expeditions of this department a fine series of mam- 

 mals, both large and small, were received in addition to material for 

 the groups mentioned above. 



A large collection of mammals from Arctic America was brought 

 back by Captain George Comer in 1902, and comprised, besides a 



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