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at the close of the last fiscal year is shown in the following table. 

 | [[underlined]] June 30, 1886 | June 30, 1887.[[/underlined]]
Number of specimens in the exhibition series of skins. | 735. | 752.
Number of specimens in the duplicate and study series of skins. | 3862 | 4088
Number of specimens in the alcoholic series. | [[underlined]] 2854. [[/underlined]] | [[underlined]] 2971 [[/underlined]]
     Total | 7451. | 7811

The number of skins and specimens in alcohol added and distributed during the year was as follows.

Number of specimens added during the year ending June, 30, 1887. | 401.
Number of specimens distributed during the year ending June 30, 1887. | 42.

Among the skins and alcoholic specimens added were represented seventeen species and subspecies not previously in the col-