British Museum for 1^07 . 609 



necessary to keep the collection in oz'der. The arrangement 

 of the Passerine skeletons is approaching completion. 



" The accessions to Class ' Aves ' in 1907 number thirteen 

 thousand nine hundred and one. Of these the most note- 

 worthy are : — 



" Ten thousand specimens from China, collected and 

 presented by Mr. F. W. Styan ; thirty-four eggs from South 

 Africa, presented by Mr. J. A. Bucknill; forty-one birds 

 from Angoni-land, presented by Mr. C. B. Storey ; four 

 birds from Uganda (types of newly described species), 

 presented by Mr. F. J. Jackson, C.B., C.M.G. ; two eggs 

 of a Wood-Hoopoe from Natal, presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S.; sixty birds, nests and eggs, collected in New Guinea, 

 presented by Capt. F. R. Barton, C.M.G. ; nineteen birds 

 from Setubal, Portugal, presented by Don Luiz Gonzaga do 

 Nascimento ; fifty birds and eggs from the Kurrum Valley, 

 presented by Mr. C. H. T. Whitehead ; seven skeletons of 

 Colius striatus from Gazaland, presented by Mr. C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton ; twenty-seven mounted birds, chiefly British, 

 ibr the Exhibition Gallery, presented by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward ; twelve birds from Aldabra Island, including one of 

 a species new to the collection, presented by Mr. R. Dupont ; 

 one hundred and fourteen birds collected in Mashonaland, 

 presented by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall ; seventy-seven birds 

 from the Gazelle River district, collected and presented 

 by Mr. G. Blain ; seventy-six birds from Northern Rhodesia, 

 collected and presented by Dr. F. O. Stoehr; sixty-six birds 

 from the Gambia, collected and presented by Dr. E. 

 Hopkinson ; one hundred and six birds from Japan, 

 presented by Mr. R. Gordon Smith ; twenty-five birds 

 collected in Northern Rhodesia (including the types of 

 two species new to science), collected by Mr. Sheffield A. 

 Neave, presented by the Manchester Museum ; two hundred 

 and eighty birds from Persia, collected by Mr. R. B. 

 Woosnam, presented by Col. A. Bailward; thirty-four 

 birds from Western Australia, collected by Mr. G. C. 

 Shortridge, presented by Mr. W. E. Balston ; three hundred 

 and eighty-four birds from Japan, Saghalien, and China, 

 presented by the Duke of Bedford, K.G. ; forty-three birds 



