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Title: Annual report of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the year
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : (American Museum of Natural History)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e 200 specimens the present year, have been utilized byMr. Miller for the study of the pterylosis and viscera. The rearrangement of the exhibition collection of mammals, under the direction of Director Lucas, has made good progress during the year, as noted in the Directors report,Installations ^„ _Q . i(- pages 38 to 46. A striking addition to the ornithological exhibit is a Hornbill Group, showing the peculiar nesting habits of these curious birds. An actual nesting site, in a section of a large mambao tree from the Belgian Congo, obtained by the American Museum Congo Expedition, illustrates their peculiar methods. They breed in holes in trees, and when the female begins to sit on the eggs the male plasters up the entrance to the nest and feeds the female through a small hole left for this purpose, she remaining a willing prisoner during the period of incubation. Research work in mammals has been confined chiefly to theCongo collection, of which about one third has now been criti-
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department of mammalogy and ornithology Hornbill Group From Congo Expedition collections Researches on Birds and Mammals 79 cally studied. Reports on several groups have been preparedand await publication. A paper on the insectivora is in press,to be followed by others on the Sciuridae, Ano-Research maluridse, Idiuridae and Viverridse; work is in Publication progress on the remaining groups of the Car-nivora. The Curator has also in preparation apaper on the classification and nomenclature of the smallerspotted cats of Tropical America, the text and part of theillustrations having been finished. Associate Curator Andrewsdevoted several months to research work on the mammals col-lected by him on his recent Asiatic Expedition, nearly complet-ing an important revision of the Serows and Gorals when in-terrupted by the preparations for his Second Asiatic ZoologicalExpedition in June last, mentioned above. Associate CuratorMiller has continued his studies of the birds of Nicaragua, witha vi

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