PROCEEDINGS. 



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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



The Honorary Secretary acknowledged receipt of the following contributions 

 to the Society's museum since the last meeting : — 



Contribution. 



Description. 



Strix javaniea 



Caecahis chrilor , 



Felis Pardvs , 



Tropidonctus Piscator.. 

 Galloperdix lunvlatus 



Canons rlioviheatus 



1 Crested Serpent 'E'Ag\&\Spilornis cTieela 

 Some Shells, &c., from, the 

 Seychelles Islands. 



1 Screech Owl (alive) 



Chukor Partridges (alive) ... 



1 Panther Cab(alive) 



1 Checquered Water Snake 

 1 Skin of the Painted Spur 

 Fowl. 



1 Cape Viper 



A number of Shells from 



South Africa. 

 8 Skins of the Narcondam 

 Hornbill. 



1 Snake 



1 Large Python''s Skin 



Skins of the large Malay 

 Squirrel, Pallas''s Squirrel, 

 and the Indian Marten. 

 Nest and young of the Mad- 

 ras Eufons Woodpecker. 

 1 Red-headed Merlin (alive). 



1 Panther's Skull 



Eggs of the larger Racket- 

 tailed Drongo. 



Skins of the Bonelir 



Eagle, Red-headed Merlin, 



Brahminy Kite, Indian 



Koel and Painted Snipe. 



Pied-crested Cuckoos 



(alive). 

 A number of Shells from the 



Andaman and Nicobar 



Islands. 



2 Andaman Teal 



Contributor. 



Rhytidoceros nar^'ondami ... 



Polyodonto2)liis sulpunctattis 



Python reticulatv s 



Sciurus hicolor^ Sciurus 



erytJiraus, JMustela flavi- 



gula. 

 Muscropternus gularis. 



^J^salon cMqucra 



Felis Pardui 



Dis-iemurus Paradigeus 



Eieratus fasciatns, ^salor 

 chiequira, Tlaliaster iridus, 

 Eudynnmes honorata, 



MhynchcBa caensls. 



Coccystes jacoMnus 



Nettium alhigulare 



Capt. P. Z. Cox. 

 Dr. Sinclair. 



Mr. R. Maidment. 

 Mrs. Waghorn. 

 Mr. R. P. Barrow, I.C.S. 

 Surg.-Capt. Hojel. 

 Mr. E. Roberts. 



Mr. Queckett. 



Lieut. N. F. Wilson, R.I.M. 



Lieut. Commdr. J. St 



John, R.I.M. 

 Mr. W. F. Biscoe. 

 Mr. H. Tilley. 

 Do. 



Lieut. N. F. Wilson, R.I.M. 



Mr. J. P. Brand. 

 Mr. F. Gleadowe. 

 Mr. Patten. 



Mr. C. Donald. 



Mrs. W. George. 



Lieut. Commdr. 

 John, R.I.M. 



Major H. Graham. 



St, 



MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM 

 Mr. L. Morgan, Dr. E. H, Brown, Mr. J. A. Betham, Mr. P. Newnham, 

 Mr. A. Leslie, Mr. W. Gaye, Miss George, Mrs. Acklom, Mr. A- J. Taylor, 

 Mr. H. Bulkley, and Surgeon-Major R. H. Nicholson, A. M.S. 

 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 

 Game Birds of India (Gates), Vol. I, from the Author ; Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of India, Himalayan Fossils, Vol. I., Part 3, from the 

 Government of India ; Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des 

 Museums fiir Maturkunde in Berlin, in exchange ; Nature, Vol. 57 

 Nos, 1,479— 1,488, Vol. 58, Nos. 1,488 and 1,490, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair; 



