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representing extremely rare North American birds either extinct, or on the verge of extinction; (6) A series of facsimile reproductions of plates of Audubon's great work on the Birds of North America, appropriately framed and labeled. As a special feature of the exhibit illustrating the geographical distribution a series of colored maps may be mentioned, each representing one of the zoogeographical regions of the earth.

[[double underlined]]Notes upon the more important accessions.[[/double underlined]]

The more important accessions received during the year are the following:

[[double underlined]]C. E. Aiken,[[/double underlined]]] Colorado Springs, Col., 5 specimens of [[underlined]]Leucosticti atrata.[[/underlined]] (Gift).

[[double underlined]]Anastasio Alfaro[[/double underlined]], San Jose, Costa Rica, the type specimen of [[underlined]] Porzana alfari[[/ underlined]] recelty described by Mr. Ridgway. (Gift).

[[double underlined]]Wm. C. Avery,[[/double underlined]] Greensboro, Ala., 3 specimens of [[underlined]]Peucaea bachmani[[/underlined]] from Greensboro. (Gift).

[[double underlined]]Edward Bartlett,[[/double underlined]] Maidstone, Kent, England, 50 specimens, 48 species, nearly all from the Old World, especially Australia, a few new to the collection. (Exchange)