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including the Galapagos archipelago. Mr. Leonhard Stejneger has continued his researches in Japanese ornithology, while Mr. J. A. Allen, of New York City, Dr. P. L. Sclater, and Mr. Osbert Salvin, of London, England and Count von Berlepsch of Muenden, Germany, and several other active workers, have been sent many specimens to aid them in their studies of particular groups of American birds.

The present state of the collection is, so far as preservation of the specimens is concerned as nearly perfect as is possible under existing circumstances, only a portion of the duplicate series and the mounted collection being exposed to the attacks of insects, — an unfortunate