1876.] 



SENATE— No. 10. 



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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



By J. A. Allen, Assistant iii Ornithology. 



There are few changes to report in respect to the collec- 

 tions of mammals and birds. The additions received durinor 



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the year have been duly registered and labelled, and the col- 

 lections, both alcoholic and dry, continue in safe condition. 

 During the year, the large Big-bone Lick collection of fossils 

 (chiefly bison remains) , collected some years ago by Prof. 

 N. S. Shaler, has been assorted, marked, and catalogued. 

 The same has been done for the greater portion of the other 

 mammalian remains. 



The additions during the year consist mainly of the collec- 

 tions made by Mr. S. W. Garman, about Lake 'Titicaca, in 

 Peru, embracing about one hundred species of birds and sev- 

 eral species of mammals, including skins and skeletons of the 

 different races of Auchenia found in Peru. In addition to 

 these is a valuable collection of monkeys, collected by Mr. 

 Garman in Central America. These collections have all been 

 presented to the Museum by Mr. Agassiz, under whose direc- 

 tion they were formed. The only other collections of note 

 are an invoice of some thirty species of birds and mammals 

 from India, presented by the Rev. M. M. Carleton, and an 

 invoice of about twenty-five species from Queensland, Aus- 

 tralia, received in exchange from Mr. Charles Coxen. Other 

 small lots have been received from Dr. T. M. Brewer, who 

 has given us a large series of eggs of birds, and from Messrs. 

 Walter Davis and J. A. Allen. 



