600 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



Two hundred and one birds from Travancore^ collected by 

 Mr. F. W. Bourdillon^ and containing the type of Merula 

 bourdilloni and many rare species; purchased. 



Twelve specimens from Sumatra^ collected by Dr. Carl 

 Bock, and containing four species new to the collection. 



Three hundred and eighteen eggs from North-western 

 BorneOj collected by Mr. Hugh Low during his sojourn in 

 Labuan. This collection has been described by Mr. Sharpe 

 (P.Z. S. 1879, p. 317). 



Twelve birds from Duke-of-York Island, New Britain, &c., 

 collected by Mr. Layard, and representing nine species new 

 to the collection ; purchased. 



Forty-two specimens from the Goldie river and the country 

 inland of Port Moresby, South-eastern New Guinea, inclu- 

 ding many rare species new to the collection, among them the 

 type of Geocichla papuensis ; purchased. 



Forty-two birds from South-eastern New Guinea, collected 

 by Charles Hunsteiu, and containing, among other rarities, 

 the types of Clytoceyx rex (a new genus and species of 

 Kingfishers) and of Tanysiptera dance ; purchased. 



Two Cassowaries from South-eastern New Guinea, appa- 

 rently referable to Casuarius kaupi and C. beccarii ; purchased. 



Three specimens of the Australian Cassowary {Casuarius 

 australis) from Northern Australia ; presented by Messrs. 

 F. DuCane Godman and O. Salvin. 



A series of twenty-three Cormorants from New Zealand ; 

 presented by Baron A. von Hiigel. 



Six birds from the Solomon Isles, collected by Lieut. 

 Richards, and comprising the types of Edoliosoma solomonis, 

 Graucalus monotonus, and Rhipidura russata ; purchased. 



Six species of North- American Wrens ; presented by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



Twenty-four birds from California ; purchased. 



Seventy-nine birds and eggs from Chili and the Straits of 

 Magellan; collected during the cruise of H.M.S 'Alert/ 



