610 The Report on the British Museum for 1907. 



from the Malay Peninsula, presented by the Selangor State 

 Museum ; eight hundred and thirty-five birds from Spain, 

 bequeathed by the late Mr. Howard Saunders ; forty-one 

 birds from Southern Rhodesia, collected by Mr. A. L. Sclater, 

 purchased; three hundred and five eggs from China, collected 

 by Mr. J. D. La Touclie, purchased ; two hundred and sixty- 

 seven birds from New Guinea and the Aru Islands, collected 

 by Mr. W. Goodfellow, purchased ; two hundred and forty- 

 eight birds from Mfumbiro, Tanganyika, and the Upper 

 Congo, collected by Mr, D. Carruthers, purchased ; one 

 hundred and sixty-one birds from Mt. Morrison, Formosa 

 (including types of ten new species), purchased ; twenty- 

 seven birds from Annam (including types of three new 

 species and examples of Rheinhardtius ocellatus), collected 

 by Dr. Vassal, purchased ; one hundred and thirty-one 

 birds from the Goolis Mts., Somaliland, purchased ; thirty 

 eggs from Tasmania, received in exchange; one hundred 

 and sixty-six birds and five eggs from Northern Rhodesia, 

 collected by Mr. Sheffield A. Ncave, presented by the 

 British South African Company ; nineteen specimens of 

 species new to the collection, received in exchange from 

 the Hon. AValter Rothschild, M.P. ; and forty birds from 

 the Kain district of Khorasan and Tirhut, presented by 

 Mr. J. W. Watson." 



We are sure that we are expressing the wishes of all 

 ornithologists when we state our hope that the fifth (and 

 last) volume of the ' Hand-list of the Genera and Species 

 of Birds ' may soon be issued. Five years have elapsed 

 since the fourth volume of this important work was 

 published, and the delay in completing it is a constant 

 source of trouble to working ornithologists. 



Although it is not mentioned in this Report, we may 

 venture to express our satisfaction that Mr. William Plane 

 Pycraft, M.B.O.U., who has contributed so many excellent 

 anatomical and osteological papers to this Journal, has 

 been appointed, permanently. Assistant in the Zoological 

 Department of the British Museum, and has been placed in 

 charsre of the Osteoloarical Collections. 



