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25 held numerous meetings in the office of the curator of the department, and based its decisions affecting something near 100 species and subspecies which were candidates for admission into the list, almost exclusively upon the collection belonging to the department. In addition to this matter, special investigations were made by the curator in the genera [[underlined]] Psittacula [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Accipiter [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Xiphocolaptes [[/underlined]], and [[underlined]] Sclerurus [[/underlined]], while much work of similar character was done in connection with a large collection from Costa Rica and a still more extensive one made by the naturalists of the U.S.S. "Albatross" in Alaska and various portions of South America,
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