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The preparation of a report upon two collections recently received from Southern California has occupied some of the curator's time during the present month.

Under the heading of special work may well be mentioned the review of the avian genus [[underlined]]Chasiempis[[/underlined]], which the curator undertook at the request of Mr. Scott B. Wilson, of London, England. Mr. Wilson has spent several years in the Hawaiian Islands collecting birds, and is now preparing a great work on the Hawaiian birds illustrated by colored quarts plates. Unable to straighten out the intricate questions confronting the student of the genus