Birds, 459 



44 nests and eggs and skeletons of birds, from Rodriguez, collected by 

 H. Gulliver. Presented. [76. 3. 15, 1-22.] 



The collections made by the Rev. H. H. Slater and Mr. H. Gulliver 

 during the Transit of Venus Expedition were described by ine in 1879 

 [Phil. Trans., clxviii. (extra volume), pp. 101-162, pis. vi-viii.]. 



22 specimens of birds and 114 eags from Kerguelen Island. Collected 

 by the Rev. A. B. Eaton. [76. 4. 26, 1-22 ; 76. 6. 19, 1-114.] 



These specimens were collected by Mr. Eaton during the Transit of 

 Venus Expedition. He discovered a new species of Duck, which I named 

 after him Querquedula eatoni, since separated as a distinct genus, 

 Dafilula, by the late Dr. ElUot Coues. Owing to various circumstances, 

 the collection made on the Transit of Venus Expedition was a very small 

 one, and by no means to be compared with that made by Dr. Kidder and 

 the American expedition (cf. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., no. 2, pp. 1-47, 1875 ; 

 no. 3, pp. 1-20, 1876). Mr. Eaton's notes were, however, excellent, being 

 the work of a first-class field-naturalist. The Challenger had visited 

 Kerguelen but a short time before, and he believed that a complete series 

 of the birds of the island had been obtained, and therefore preserved only 

 a few specimens. By unearthing the collections of birds made by the old 

 Antarctic Expedition from the boxes of skins in the British Museum, 

 concerning which nothing had been published, I was able to compile a 

 tolerably complete memoir on the birds of these Antarctic regions [cf. 

 Phil. Trans., clxviii. (extra volume), pp. 101-162, pis. vi.-viii., 1879]. 



30 specimens of birds from the Island of Fernando Noronha, collected 

 by Mr. H. N. Ridley. Presented. [88. 6. 1, 1-30.] 



Two new species were obtained by Mr. Ridley, viz. Elainea ridleyana. 

 Sharps (P. Z. S., 1888, p. 107), and Vireo gracilirvstris, Sharpe, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ZooL, 20, p. 478, 1890. For Mr. Ridley's own account of the 

 expedition, see Journ. Linn. Soc, Botany, vol. xxvii., and " Zoologist," 

 1888, pp. 41-49. 



81 specimens from the Island of Dominica, W.I., collected by Mr. 

 G. A. Ramage. Presented. [88. 9. 21, 1-11 ; 88. 10. 4, 1-15 ; 89. 6. 10, 

 1-58.] For a description of these collections, see Sclater, P. Z. S., 1889, 

 pp. 326, 327. 



50 specimens from Santa Lucia, collected by Mr. O. A. Ramage. 

 Presented. [89. 8. 5, 1-50] {cf. Sclater, P.Z.S., 1889, pp. 394, 395). 



27 specimens from Antigua, collected by Mr. G. A. Ramage. 

 Presented. [93. 7. 9, 1-27] (cf. Sclater, P.Z.S., 1892, pp. 498-500). 



62 skeletons of birds from Madagascar, collected by Dr. Forsyth 

 Major. [97. 5. 10, 1-62.] 



Royal Society and British Association. 



256 specimens of birds from the Hawaian Archipelago. Presented. 

 . [95. 7. 20, 1-175 ; 97. 10. 28, 1-81.] 



This important collection was made by Mr. Perkins, who has written 

 a most interesting account of the birds of the Hawaian Islands (c/". " Ibis," 

 1893, pp. 101-112, and " Fauna Hawaiensis," vol. i., 1903). 



In addition to the type-specimen of the new species, Drepanorhaiaphus 

 funereus, the following additions were made to the collection of the 

 British Museum : — Heterorhynchus hanapepe, H. wilsoni, II. affinis, 

 Hemignathus ohscurus, FT. procerus, Oreomyzd maiui, 0. montana, 

 Loxops flamiiiea, Iliniatione maculata, II. iiewtoui, Hhodaicunfhis 

 palmeri, PseudoncsfAH- x'lntlwphryu, Ohloridops kona, Chlorodrepanis 

 parva, 0. kalaa/ta, O. chluris, C clduridoidts, O. tvihoni, Chrysomilridops 

 cseruleirostris, Fha-.ornis lanaiensis, Acrulocercus bishopi, A. nobilis, 



