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obtained last year by Mr. Garman, together with the care and 

 identification of the additions, has interfered very materially with 

 the preparation of the systematic catalogue of birds mentioned in 

 the report for last year ; several additional families, however, 

 have been revised, the work being continued as opportunity 

 favors. 



The skins of the birds and mammals have been placed in the 

 new workrooms in the attic, giving greatly increased facilities 

 for work. The osteological material has been temporarily re- 

 moved from the osteological rooms, and at present is not fully 

 accessible, but, as soon as the new storage cases are put in place, 

 will be returned in better order than before, and with suitable 

 space for the expansion of this rapidly increasing collection. 



The following papers, written by me, have been published dur- 

 ing the past year : — 



History of North American Pinnipeds : A Monograph of the "Walruses, 

 Sea-LioDS, Sea-Bears, and Seals of North America. Washington : Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office, 1880. 8vo, pp. i-xvi, 1-785. ("Miscel. Publ. 

 No. 16" of the U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Territories, F. V. 

 Hayden, Geologist-in-charge.) 



List of Mammals collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Northeastern 

 Mexico. Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, VIII. No. 9, pp. 183-189. 



Insectivorous Birds in their Relation to Man. Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 

 VI. pp. 22-28. 



Supplementary List of the Birds of Santa Lucia, W. L Bull. Nuttall 

 Orn. Club, VI. p. 128. 



On the Migration of Birds. Scribner's Monthly Mag., XXIL pp. 

 932-938. 



