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been catalogued by Mr. Eugene Oates, and nearly the whole 

 collection labelled and made available for reference, including 

 the accessions received since the late Mr. Seebohm made the 

 preliminary arrangement. 



" The re-arrangement and determination of the collection 

 of bird-skeletons continues to make satisfactory progress. 

 Mr. W. P. Pycraft has carefully determined those of the 

 Grebes, Divers, Struthious birds, and Tinamous, and a large 

 number of specimens, both adults and embryos^ have been 

 added to the series. 



''Much assistance in the latter work has been voluntarily 

 given by Mr. Robert Reid." 



The additions to the Bird-Collection in 1899-1900 were 

 5626 in number, of which the following are specially men- 

 tioned in the Report : — 171 birds from Nyasaland, including 

 the type of a new Rarbet [Melanobucco macclounii) , and a 

 new Shrike [Malaconotus manningi) , presented by Lieut. -Col. 

 Manning ; 40 birds from Ascension Island and Diego Garcia, 

 presented by Dr. F. Penrose; 114 birds, 6 nests, and 11 

 eggs from the Chilean Andes, presented by Mr. E. A. Fitz- 

 gerald ; 24.2 birds from Argentina and Patagonia, presented 

 by Dr. F. P. Moreno; 8 birds from British East Africa, 

 presented by Mr. R. Crawshay ; 30 birds from Muscat, pre- 

 sented by Surgeon Lieut. -Col. A. Jayakar ; 9 birds, 29 eggs, 

 and 7^ nests from China, presented by Mr. J. D. La Touche ; 

 9 birds from China, presented by Mr. F. W. Styan ; 1192 

 birds from China, including examples of many rare species 

 new to the collection, presented by Mr. C. B. Rickett; 111 

 specimens from Ecuador, purchased ; 103 birds from Canada, 

 received in exchange ; 56 birds from South-east New Guinea, 

 purchased ; the type of a new species of Swallow [Psalido- 

 procne perc'muli) from British Central Africa, presented by 

 Mr. A. Blayney Percival ; 45 birds from Cape York, North 

 Queensland, purchased ; 21 birds from Basilan, Philippines, 

 purchased ; 12 birds from New Guinea, purchased; 16 birds 

 from the Transvaal, presented by Mr. F. C. Selous; 18 birds 

 from Tibet, presented by Capt. Deasy ; 19 birds and 9 eggs 

 from Nigeria, presented by Dr. Christy; 206 birds and ]4 



