C98 Letters, Extracts, Notices, S^c. 



eggs from Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, including the types of 

 8 new species^ collected by Mr. Ogilvie Grant and Dr. H. O. 

 Forbes, presented by the Royal Society ; the types of 8 new 

 species of birds from Uganda, presented by Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson, C.B.; 20 nests from Norway, presented by Mr. C. 

 Horsbrugh ; 664 birds and 53 eggs from the Galapagos 

 Islands^ collected by the Webster-Harris expedition, pur- 

 chased ; 18 birds from Galicia, Spain, presented by Dr. Victor 

 Lopez Seoane ; 54 birds from the Gold Coast, presented by 

 the late Colonel H. P. Northcott ; 23 birds from Bolivia, 

 presented by Sir Martin Conway ; 9 examples of the " Jer " 

 Falcon from Greenland, purchased; 41 birds, including 

 examples of 2 species new to the collection, from New 

 Guinea, purchased ; 4 birds from Roraima, British Guiana, 

 including the type of a new Finch [Zonotrichia macconnelli) , 

 presented by Mr. F. V. McConnell ; 18 birds from the 

 island of Hainan, collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead, 

 including the types of 5 new species, presented by Mr. J. T. 

 Thomasson ; 136 birds and 6 eggs from the island of Hainan, 

 collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead, purchased; 190 

 birds from South China, including the types of 3 new species 

 and an adult pair of the very rare Scaly Merganser (Mer- 

 ganser squamatus) , presented by Capt. A. W. S. Wingate ; 

 and 416 birds from S. Abyssinia, including the types of 16 

 new species, and examples of 10 species not previously 

 represented in the collection, presented by Mr. H. Weld- 

 Blundell and Lord Lovat. 



Birds figured in the Egyptian Tombs. — In acknowledg- 

 ment (perhaps) of some slight assistance, Mr. F. LI. Griffith 

 has kindly sent to one of us two parts of the beautiful 

 memoirs on the illustrations of the Egyptian Tombs pub- 

 lished by the " Archi3eological Survey of Egypt,^^ which have 

 special reference to Birds. In the Fifth Memoir (Beni 

 Hasan, pt. iii. 1896) plate ii. is entirely devoted to " Bird- 

 Hieroglyphs,^' of which 15 are shown and explained in the 

 accompanying text. The exact determination of the " con- 

 ventionalized " figures is not easy, although in some cases 



