Letters, Announcements, ^c. 395 



N'ew Genera and Species of Count Salvadori. — In our 

 notice of the last volume of Salvadori^s ' Ornitologia della 

 Papuasia ' [antea, p. 219) it should have been mentioned that 

 three new species — Hydralector novce-liollandioi (p, 309) 

 from Australia, Khipidura jinschi (p, 532) from New Britain, 

 and Stigmatops blasii (p. 543) from the Moluccas — were de- 

 scribed in it. 



In our notice of the same author's ' Prodromus ' of the 

 Grallatores of Papuasia (Ibis, 1882^ p. 606) it should like- 

 wise have been stated that two new genera — Neoscolopax 

 (type Scolopax rochussenii, Schleg.) and Zonerodius (type 

 Ardea heliosyla, Lesson) — were characterized for the first 

 time. 



The National Collection of Birds. — The portion of the col- 

 lection of birds in the British Museum kept in unmounted 

 skins (nearly 100,000 in number) has now been removed to 

 the new Natural-History Museum in South Kensington, and 

 is under process of arrangement in one of the one-storied 

 galleries of the west wing. The mounted specimens (10,000) 

 will shortly follow, and will be placed in the lowest of the 

 three great galleries of the same wing. 



In the lately issued Parliamentary Report the following 

 account is given of the accessions in 1882 in the class of 

 Birds. 



"The number of accessions was 3574, the following being 

 the most important : — 



" The additions to the groups of British birds, presented by 

 Lord Walsingham (viz. Long-eared Owl, Jay, Garden- 

 Warbler^ Whitethroat, Stonechat, Hawfinch, Redpoll, 

 Cuckoo, and Snipe), by Lord Lovat (Grouse and Curlew), 

 and by T. Harcourt Powell, Esq. (Golden-crested Wren and 

 Greenfinch) . 



"Two specimens of Audouin^s Gull from the Mediter- 

 ranean, a species previously unrepresented in the collection ; 

 presented by Lord Lilford. 



"A specimen of Puffinus kuhlii from Malaga ; presented by 

 Col. Irby. 



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