170 Letters, Eu tracts, Notices, 6^'C. 



the date when) they were collected ; besides which the names 

 have been entered in a systematic manuscript list. This 

 collection fills 33 cabinets with 30 drawers each, the eggs 

 themselves being placed in glass-topped boxes filled with 

 cotton-wool. 



Tliree new groups of mounted specimens, illustrating the 

 nesting-habits of British Birds, have been completed, namely, 

 those of the Greater Black-backed Gull, the Dotterel, and 

 the Greenfinch. A group of Swifts [CoJlocalia faciphaga), 

 producers of the so-called " edible Swallow-nests," with their 

 nests attached to the rock, has been added to the general 

 collection. Mr. C. Hose, who collected the materials in one 

 of the celebrated caves in Sarawak, has personally super- 

 intended the construction and mounting of this group. 



Eleven thousand four hundred and twenty-six specimens 

 of Skins and Eggs have been added to the general collection 

 of Birds during the financial year 1893-4. Of those addi- 

 tions the following are the more important : — 



A pair of very fine Ostriches {Struthio australis), from 

 Halesowen Farm, Cradock, Cape Colony, purchased; also 

 the skeleton of a female bird from the same locality, presented 

 by Captain W. Hume Middlemass. 



Two specimens of the true Prairie Hen Grouse {Tympa- 

 nuchus cupido), from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; 

 puichased. 



Fifty-four birds from Suakim; presented by Surgeon- 

 Captain 11. H. Penton. 



A specimen of a rare Grouse {Tetraophasis szechenyi),hom. 

 Thibet, and one of the Black-necked Crane {Grus niyricuHis) , 

 from Mongolia, both new to the collection ; piesented by 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



A specimen of a Partridge {H(ematortyx sanguiniceps) from 

 Mount Kina Balu ; presented by A. H. Everett, Esq. 



Eighty-three birds from Mount Kalulong and Baram, in 

 Sarawak ; presented by Charles Hose, Esq. 



The type-specimens of Turdmus kalulonga, T. tephrups, 

 and Glaucidium borneense, from Mount Kalulong, in Sarawak, 

 collected by Charles Hose, Esq. ; purchased. 



