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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. 



By Outram Bangs. 



The most important accessions to the collections of this De- 

 partment have been received as the gift of Mr. John E. Thayer. 

 These accessions include well-prepared skins with skulls collected 

 in Lower California by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr., and another and 

 final series of skins and skulls from western China collected by Mr. 

 W. R. Zappey. Other specimens have been presented by Mrs. 

 A. W. Bosworth, Drs. G. M. Allen, H. B. Bigelow, Theodore 

 Lyman, and W. L. Smith and by Messrs. Thomas Barbour, R. W. 

 Bazin, William Dirrett, W. C. Forbes, and R. W. Sayles. 



Three skins with skulls of the Musk ox of Ellesmere Land were 

 obtained by purchase. 



Publications. August 1, 1908-July 31, 1909. 



John E. Thayer and Outram Bangs. 



Description of a new subspecies of the Snowy Heron. Proc. N. E. 



zool. club, 29 April, 1909. vol 4, p. 39-41. 

 Descriptions of new birds from Central China. Bull. M. C. Z., 



May, 1909, vol. 52, p. 137-142. 

 utram Bangs. 



Notes on some rare or not well-known Costa Rican birds. Proc. 

 biol. soc. Washington, 10 March, 1909, vol. 22, p. 29-38. 



