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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS AND BIRDS. 



By J. A. Allen. 



Mammals. — The additions to this department during the year 

 number about sixty mounted skins, representing nearly as many 

 species new to the collection ; eighty unmounted skins, sixteen 

 skeletons, and twenty skulls. Noteworthy among these are the 

 skeleton of a large finner whale and the skull of a hump-backed 

 whale taken at Provincetown, a mounted skeleton of a gorilla, and 

 finely-mounted skins of a large old male Bornean orang ( Simia 

 Wurmbi Owen), a hairy tapir (^Tapirus Roulini)^ a young hippo- 

 potamus, a Javan rhinoceros, several large African antelopes, Pota- 

 mohoerus Edivardsi, a proboscis monkey, and various other species 

 of monkeys and lemurs. Quite a large number of skins previously 

 received have also been mounted. 



An important addition to the palaeontological department con- 

 sists of a large collection of remains of extinct mammals from the 

 Bad-lands of north-eastern Wyoming, made by Mr. S. W. Garman, 

 numbering not far from five hundred specimens, and representing 

 about twenty species. The collection includes large suites of the 

 skulls and other bones of all the more common species of the 

 locality explored. 



About one-half of the collection of alcoholic bats (numbering 

 about six hundred specimens) has been placed in the hands of 

 Dr. Harrison Allen for elaboration. 



Birds. — About two thousand skins have been added to the 

 collection of birds, two hundred of them mounted ; and about 

 four hundred have been mounted from specimens previously in 

 the collection. About two-thirds of the additions are from South 

 and Central America and the West Indies ; the larger part of the 

 remainder are from North America, purchased with special ref- 

 erence to supplying deficiencies in the North American series. 

 The more important special collections include one hundred and 



