744 Letters, Extracts, Notices, 6fc. 



Australia, presented by Mr. E. S, Moulden : 95 birds from 

 the Zambesi, presented by Capt. Boyd Alexander : 215 birds 

 and 14 eggs from Australia, presented by Donald Macintosh : 

 parent-birds, nests, and eggs of the Avocet [Recurvirosti'a 

 avocetta) and of the Black-tailed God wit {Limosa limosa) ; 

 presented by Messrs, John Stares and E. Earle : 104 birds, 

 in spirits, from Costa Kica, purchased : the types of 7 new 

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

 son, C.B. : 568 eggs from the east coast of N. America, 

 received in exchange from the Princeton University, New 

 Jersey : 19 Greenland Falcons, purchased : 343 birds from 

 South Arabia, including the types of three new species, 

 collected by the Percival-Dodsoii Expedition, purchased : 

 parent-birds and nest of Whitens Thrush {Geocichla varia) 

 from Japan, and 20 embryo birds in spirits, presented by 

 Mr. Heatley Noble : 14 birds and 13 nests from North 

 Australia and New Guinea, purchased : 82 birds from the 

 White Nile, presented by Capt. H. N. Dunn, R.A.M.C. : 

 a cotype of Cerasophila thompsoni from the S. Shan States, 

 presented by Colonel C. T. Bingham : 200 birds from the 

 Andes of Ecuador, purchased : a collection of mummified 

 birds, presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration 

 Fund : 12 birds from the Moluccas, including examples of six 

 species new to the collection, purchased: 6 specimens of anew 

 bird {Tat are vaughani) from Pitcairn Island, presented by 

 Lieut. Vaughan, R.N. : 3 birds from Hadramaut, Southern 

 Arabia, including the type of a new Grosbeak {Rhyncho- 

 struthus percivali), presented by Mr. A. Blayney Percival : 

 950 birds from the Shan States, including the types of seven 

 new species, presented by Colonel G. Bippon : and a specimen 

 of the rare Pigmy Tinamou {Taoniscm nanus) from the 

 Argentine Republic, presented by Mr. Noel L. Holdeu." 



Spring Birds at Mashad, N.E. Persia. — In his ' Khurasan 

 and Seistan,' Col. Yate writes as follows : — '' Spring at 

 Mashad is a charming time, and the whole country seems to 

 blossom out. Birds of all sorts appear to breed. The Blue 

 Jay or Indian Boiler — the Kulagh-i-Sabz or Green Crow, as 



