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particularly fine one from the Kilimanjaro district, made and presented to the National Museum by Dr. W. L. Abbott, has received as much attention as time would permit.

Many specimens were during this year submitted to the curator for determination by Dr. Merriam, Ornithologist of the Department of Agriculture. * [[checkmark]]

During four days of November the eighth congress of the American Ornithologist's Union was held in Washington, the office of the curator of the Department of Birds being headquarters for the members, and the meeting place of several Committees, especially that on Species and Subspecies, to the work of which the collections

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*This has also been the case during previous years (since the organization of the Divisions of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy), but mention of this fact was overlooked in my reports.