Birds. 271 



1890. 



Specimens presented, 5055 ; purchased, 1955 ; received in 

 exchange, 136. Total, 7147. 



A vai'iety of the Snipe and a Reeve's Pheasant. Presented by His 

 Majesty King Edward VII. (then H.R.H. the Prince of A¥ales). 



2835 specimens of American birds, Accipitres (Birds of Prey), 

 Corvidaa (Crows), Tiirdldse (Thrushes), Troglodytidae (Wrens), 

 etc., being the fortieth to forty-fifth instalments of the Salvin- 

 Godman collection. Presented by Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, 

 F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, Esq., F.R.S. 



834 specimens of Picarian birds, being the final instalment of 

 the Sclater collection. 



761 specimens of African birds, being the ninth to nineteenth 

 instalments of the Shelley collection. 



405 specimens of Larks, Hoopoes, and Kingfishers, mostly 

 from the Swinhoe collection. Presented by Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



216 eggs from Fao, Persian Gulf. Presented by W. D. 

 Cumming, Esq. 



The only known British specimen of the Siberian Thrush 

 [Cichloselys sihirica). Frederic Bond Bequest. 



47 birds from the Altai Mountains. Presented by St. George 

 Littledale, Esq. 



82 birds from Madeira and the Desertas Islands, including 

 the type of a new Sparrow-hawk (Accipiter granti). Presented by 

 W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Esq. 



Young birds and eggs of the Cream-coloured Courser 

 {Cursorius gallicus). Presented by E. G. B. Meade- Waldo, Esq. 



17 birds from the Aruwhimi River, collected by the late 

 J. S. Jameson. Presented by Mrs. Jameson. 



543 birds from Africa. Presented by J. H. Gurney, jun. 

 This collection was formed by the donor's father, John Henry 

 Gurney, and was a most valuable addition to the National 

 Collection ; consisting, as it did, of much of the material on which 

 Mr. Gurney and Mr. Thomas Ayres had founded their memoirs 

 on the Ornithology of Natal and the Transvaal. ' 



168 birds from Turkestan, collected by the late Dr. Severtzow. 



100 birds from Labuan and Sarawak. Collected by 

 A. H. Everett, Esq. 



28 birds from Equatorial Africa. Presented by Emin Pasha. 



240 birds from the Philippine Islands. Received in exchange 

 from E. L. Moseley, Esq. 



