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[[underlined]] d.) Work on exhibition series. [[/underlined]]

Owing to the fact that access to the exhibition collection has been, during the entire year, practically cut off by the transfer of the Smithsonian offices to the main hall, no work of any consequence has been done on the exhibition series. About 300 specimens have been mounted during the year, and these have, when possible, been placed in the cases where they properly belong, but many of them have been temporarily arranged in cases in the southwest gallery. The accessions include many birds of great interest, among which may be mentioned the type specimen of Wurdemann's Heron ([[underlined]]Ardea wurdemanni[[/underlined]]), a fine adult of the Great White Heron ([[underlined]]Ardea occidentalis[[/underlined]]), a fine adult female of the American Flamingo, the type specimen of a supposed new Sea Eagle from the Commander Islands ([[underlined]]Haliaëltus hypoleucus Stejneger[[/underlined]]), a fine series of Pheasants and other Japanese birds, collected by Mr. P. L. Jouy, and other interesting specimens, too numerous to mention.