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be found examples of four or five species of Toucans and a 

 nice pair of Hornbills [LopJioceros nasutas), also a bright- 

 coloured Hunting-Crow {Cissa venatoria). 



The Great Aviary is now fully occupied, and five or six 

 pairs of the Glossy Ibis [Plegadis falcinellus) are nesting on 

 the trees. Some of the young birds are already hatched. 

 In the Great Aviary also may be observed three examples of 

 the White Sheathbill [Chionis alba) and a Jameson's Gull 

 {Larus jamesoni) sitting on her nest. There are also to be 

 seen Flamingoes, White and Scarlet Ibises, and other well- 

 known inhabitants of this fully-stocked aviary ; and hard by, 

 in the Eastern Aviary, a Great Black-headed Gull [Larus 

 ichthya'etus), lately received from the Suez Canal. 



In the Fish-House, among the Waders, may be noted a 

 fine specimen of the Grey Plover [Squatarola helvetica) in 

 full summer plumage, and a young example of the Red- 

 throated Diver [Culyrnbus septentrionalis) , purchased in 

 January last, the exact determination of which was at first 

 rather a matter of doubt. There are, besides, in this house 

 good specimens of the Indian Diver [P lotus anhinga) and 

 of the rare Sclater's Penguin [Eudyptes sclateri) (deposited 

 by the Hon. Walter Rothschild) from the Auckland Islands. 

 In a compartment near the Seal-pond will be found a 

 remarkably fine example of the King Penguin [Apteyiodytes 

 pennanti), now in full and brilliant plumage, which has been 

 living there since June 1897, and a specimen of the Gentoo 

 Penguin [Pygosceles tceniatus) from the Falkland Islands, 

 received in June 1898. 



Dates ofJardine and Selby's 'Illustrations of Ornithology.' — 

 In April 1894 I published a note on the dates of this book, 

 of which that part on the " New Series " (vol. iv.) was merely 

 tentative. Professor Newton has very kindly called my 

 attention to a set of this " New Series,^' which belonged to 

 Selby, and is now in his library, in the original wrappers, 

 and has allowed me to make the following exact statement 

 as to their contents : — 



