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5.  WHAT SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS HAVE YOU COMMENCED, CONTINUED, OR COMPLETED, UPON THE MATERIAL UNDER YOUR CARE, DURING THE YEAR.


During the year ending June 30, 1896, the time of the curator was occupied chiefly with the systematic work on North and Central American birds, a report of which will be submitted in the near future.

Other investigations carried on by the curator were:   A study of the genera of the [[underlined]] Fringillidae [[/underlined]] (not completed); [[strikethrough]] completion of [[/strikethrough]] a paper on the birds collected by Dr. W.L. Abbott in the Seychelles and other islands near Madagascar (completed);  a study of the affinities of [[underlined]] Procnias viridis [[/underlined]] (completed);  a compilation of the list of type specimens in the department of birds (not completed);  determination of some Galapagos species; of a species of [[underlined]] Peucedramus [[/underlined]] from Guatemala;  and of a Geothlypis from Mexico.  The curator was detailed for two months in southern Florida, for the purpose of studying the bird life of that region.

Among the duties performed by the assistant curator during the year were:  the determination of a collection of birds made by Dr. W.L. Abbott in Kashmir;  of one made in Eastern Turkestan, and another made in Madagascar (all of the above completed);  also one for east Africa (not completed);  the determination of a collection from Margarita Island, Venezuela, made by Lieut. Wirt Robinson; the determination of a species of ant thrush from Nicaragua, and of a series of birds from Eastern Mexico.