692 Report on the British Museum for 1908. 



Birds has been commenced for exhibition in the pubbc 

 galleries. 



The accessions to the Collection of Birds in 1908 

 numbered two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. Of 

 these the most noteworthy were as follows : — 



Six specimens of Parus dresseri and P. borealis from 

 Gloucestershire ; presented by G. H. Paddock, Esq. 



Six examples of Charadrius morineUus, and two specimens 

 of Pelecanus onocrotalus ; presented by the Hon. N. C. 

 Rothschild. 



Eighty-two birds from Borneo ; presented by the British 

 North Borneo Company. Twenty-eight birds from Shan- 

 Si ; presented by Dr. E. H. Edwards. One hundred and 

 thirty-three birds from Upper Burmah ; purchased of 

 JNIessrs. Gerrard & Sons. Fifty-seven birds and eggs from 

 Burmah ; presented by Major H. H. Harington. Two 

 specimens of Microperdix inglisi — types of the species; 

 presented by Mr. Charles M. Inglis. Two hundred and 

 eighty-eight birds from Tian Shan; purchased of Mr. Kut- 

 zenko. Sixty-six birds, chiefly from Bannu, N.W. India 

 (including the type of Molpastes magrathi) ; presented by 

 Major H. A. F. Magrath. Two females of Calophasis 

 burmanicus (from the Ruby Mines, Burmah) and one 

 example of Clangula glaucion ; presented by Mr. E. W. 

 Oates. Nests with eggs of Geocichla varia and G. sibirica 

 from Japan ; presented by Mr. Radcliffe Saunders. Three 

 hundred and nine birds from Kohat, N.W. Provinces, India ; 

 presented by Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead. 



Two hundred and forty-one birds from Cameroon — 

 including the types of six new species — collected by 

 Mr. G. L. Bates ; purchased. Twenty-five eggs from 

 Bitye, River Ja, Cameroon ; presented by Mr. G. L. Bates. 

 A specimen of Pitta reichenowi from Jinja, 15 miles west of 

 the Ripon Falls, Uganda ; presented by Dr. Cuthbert 

 Christy. One hundred and twenty-five birds, collected 

 by Captain Hamerton in Somaliland; purchased. Two 

 examples of Scotocerca inquieta; presented by Mr. M. J. Nicoll. 

 Thirty-two birds from Liberia ; presented by Mr. J. M. 



