120 Letters, Announcements, 5fC. 



(a) EUDROMADES. (c) PlCIFORMF.S. 



Rallidse. PicidaB. 



Psophiidse. Capitonidae. 



CEdicnemidse. Bucerotidse. ^ 



Otididfe. UpupidiB. 



Cariamidae. (Irrisoridie ?) 



Suborder Pici. 



Serpen tariidfe. Alcedinidae. 



Phcenicopteridfe. Coliidse. 



Momotidae. 



): Subord. Halcyones. 



(h) Eretopodks. 



Colymbidae. 



Podicipitidoe. 



Heliornithidt'e. 



[The numbers after the orders evidently denote the number 

 of families comprised in each order. — Edd.] 



The Neiv Bird-Gallery at South Kensington. — The mounted 

 collection of birds of the British Museum has now been 

 transferred to South Kensington and arranged in the large 

 gallery on the ground-floor to the left on entering the 

 building, below that occupied by the Mammals. The main 

 series of birds occupies 44 cases to the right and left of the 

 central gangway, while the Struthiones and Tinami have 

 been allotted to the large chamber at the end, where the 

 Gould collection of Humming-birds has been likewise placed. 

 The series of birds begins with the Accipitres to the left as 

 one enters, and returning on the north side, concludes with 

 the Penguins on the right. The arrangement of much of 

 the collection can at present be regarded only as provisional, 

 for in many instances representatives of very different natural 

 families are mixed up together, as, we trust, will not ulti- 

 mately be the case. But it cannot of course be expected 

 that, in the transfer of such an enormous collection, every 

 specimen can fall into its proper place at once. There can, 

 however, be no question that, when reduced into proper 

 order and accurately labelled, the series in the new Bird- 

 gallery will be the finest in Europe, and will give even the 

 casual visitor a grand idea of the extent and variety of the 

 great class Aves. 



