Letters, Extracts, Notices, ^c. 6G3 



of Larks and other birds from Morocco and Tnnis, including 

 3 very rare species^ new to the collection ; presented by 

 J. I. S. Whitaker, Esq. 8 birds from Para, including 

 the rare Psophia obscura, new to the collection ; presented 

 by Dr. E. A. Goeldi. 74 birds from the Khin-gan Moun- 

 tains, Mongolia ; presented by Dr. Donaldson Smith and 

 J. E. and G. L. Farnum, Esqs. 53 birds from Mozam- 

 bique; presented by H. S. H. Cavendish, Esq. 24 birds 

 from the Owen Stanley Mountains, S. E. New Guinea ; 

 purchased. 118 birds from British Guiana; presented by 

 Dr. J. J. Quelch and F. V. McConnell, Esq. 72 birds from 

 North Borneo ; collected by J. B. Bell, Esq.; purchased. The 

 nest and eggs of Prince A.lbert's Rifle-bird {Craspedophora 

 alberti) from Queensland ; received in exchange from D. Le 

 Souef, Esq. 61 birds from Southern Somaliland and the 

 Lake Bndolf district ; presented by Lord Delamere. 28 

 specimens from New Guinea, &c., including 5 species nevf 

 to the collection; received in exchange from the Hon. 

 Walter Rothschild, M.P. 93 birds from the Louisiade 

 Archipelago, collected by Mr. A. S. Meek; purchased. 21 

 specimens of birds from Lahej, Southern Arabia, and 163 

 specimens from Somaliland, including types of 3 new species ; 

 presented by R. McD. Hawker, Esq. 238 birds from 

 Nyasaland; presented by Alfred Sharpe, Esq., C.B, QQ 

 birds from the Salisbury district in Mashonaland; including 

 the type of Stactolama sowerbyi, a new species of Barbet; 

 collected by Mr. J. S. Sowerby ; purchased. 95 birds from 

 Machako's, British East Africa; presented by Dr. S. L. 

 Hinde. 18 birds from Central Australia ; procured during 

 the Horn Expedition, and presented by W. A. Horn, Esq. 

 77 specimens from Muscat, Arabia ; presented by Surgeon- 

 Lieut. -Colonel Jayakar. 21 birds from Mt. Albert Edward, 

 S.E. New Guinea ; purchased. 64 eggs of Gulls and Ducks 

 from the Smolen Islands, N. Norway; presented by Dr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe. 



Acquisition of Mr. H. E. Dresser's Collection of Birds by 

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