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birds from the Lower Amazon, containing 13 new species and one new genus, and a large collection from islands in the Caribbean Sea and the coast of Honduras, also containing novelties; a monograph of the genus Dendrocincla, and another of the interesting and greatly confused genus of Passerine Parrots (Psittacula), in each of which is described several previously unknown species. 

The Assistant Curator, Mr. Leonhard Stejneger, has continued his studies of the splendid collection of Japanese birds belonging to the National Museum. During the year several large private collections from the same country have been received for examination, upon which extensive  reports are still in progress of preparation. In connection with these studies he investigated several groups of European birds with