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Forty-two specimens of birds from China ; presented by 

 P. W. Styan, Esq. 



Eleven birds from Java and Billiton^ including examples 

 of three species new to the Collection^ one being the type 

 of Siphia everetti and S. nigrogularis ; purchased. 



Eighty-two specimens of birds from Madeira and the 

 Desertas, including the type of Accipiter granti ; presented 

 by W. R. Ogdvie Grant, Esq. 



Eggs and young, with the adult birds, of the Cream- 

 coloured Courser; also four specimens of birds from the 

 Canary Islands, three of them being of species new to the 

 Collection; presented by E. G. Meade- Waldo, Esq. 



Sixteen birds collected on the Aruwhimi River, by the late 

 Mr. J. S. Jameson, including examples of six species new to 

 the Collection, and the types of Cossypha baj'tteloti, Diapho- 

 rophyia jamesoni, and Pholidornis jamesoni ; presented by 

 Mrs. Jameson. 



Twenty birds from the river Niger ; presented by Captain 

 Mochler Ferryman. 



Specimens of two species of Bustard from Somali-land, 

 Otis lieuglini and O. guidiana, both new to the Collection ; 

 presented by C. Chevalier, Esq. 



Nineteen birds from the Sandwich Islands, collected by 

 Mr. Knudsen, and containing examples of eight species new 

 to the Collection ; received in exchange from the Christiania 

 Museum. 



The type of Pyrrhulopsis koroensis, Layard; presented by 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



Thirty-eight specimens collected on the Bellenden Ker 

 range, in Queensland, including examples of four species new 

 to the Collection ; received in exchange from the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



The National Collection of Birds' Eggs. — The Collection of 

 Birds^ Eggs in the British Museum of Natural History is now 

 being rearranged under the superintendence of Mr. Seebohm, 

 and when this has been done will no doubt prove to be the 

 tinest and most nearly complete of its kind in existence. It 



