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collection of 341 Indian and Burmese bird skins, made by 

 Lt.-Col. Raikes, was afterwards added by his life-long 

 Burmese friend, Maung Ba. 



To the exhibition series of birds have been added a 

 number of Australian birds, a case containing two immature 

 Rheas mounted in natural surroundings, and a pair of Indian 

 white-tailed Sea Eagles, presented by Mr. Wm. Garnett. 



The welcome gift of a Dingo from the Hon. Mrs. Smyth, 

 and the purchase of a Tasmanian Wolf have added two long 

 desired specimens to the mammalian series. The fifty-two 

 record heads of Scotch Red-deer, also presented by the Hon. 

 Mrs. Smyth, have been mounted upon the wall of the Greville 

 Smyth room. 



The group cases of Partridge, Badger, and Fox have been 

 improved by the addition of painted backgrounds. These 

 backgrounds add greatly to the interest of the cases by 

 indicating the natural surroundings in which the animals 

 live. The original Fox group was entirely reconstructed, 

 the case deepened, and a Dog Fox added to the Vixen and 

 cubs originally constituting the group. The scene in which 

 the group is mounted shows a patch of wild land in the fore- 

 ground, with the vixen and cubs at the mouth of an earth. 

 The dog-fox approaches on the right, behind furze, whilst the 

 middle ground consists of a stream and cultivated fields 

 passing back into Badminton Park, the house showing in the 

 background. The value of the reconstruction is well brought 

 out in the illustration on plate III. 



Two visits have been paid to the Museum by Lord 

 Rothschild, who has shown his interest by identifying several 

 specimens, and by the gift of the whole series of volumes of 

 " Zoological Novitates." 



The authorities of the Clifton Zoological Gardens have, 

 as in previous years, presented during the year the bodies of 

 animals, which have died in the Gardens. 



