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is believed to contain nearly 50,000 specimens, of which the 

 great Hume Collection contributed 18,500. Other notable 

 collections recently added to the series are that of Messrs. 

 Salvin and Godman (4000-5000 specimens) and that of 

 Mr. Seebohm himself (14,000 specimens), both of which are 

 being amalgamated with the general series. We are much 

 pleased to hear that the opportunity will be taken of picking 

 out a complete set of the eggs of the (so-called) '' British 

 Birds," and placing them in the British Gallery. They are 

 to be arranged in a cabinet similar to that used for Lord 

 Walsingham^s series of British Lepidoptera, so that they will 

 remain easily accessible to the inquiring public without 

 suffering injury from the light. 



The Gurney Collection of Raptorial Birds. — The Collec- 

 tions of the Norwich and Norfolk Museum will shortly be 

 removed from their present situation into the new buildings 

 that are being prepared for their reception in Norwich Castle. 

 The Committee to whom the diflficult task of the removal and 

 rearrangement of the Collections has been entrusted wisely 

 propose to devote one of the best and largest of the new 

 rooms to the exhibition of the Gurney Collection of Rap- 

 torial Birds, formed by the late John Henry Gurney, so well 

 known to many of us, and presented by him to the Museum. 

 The Gurney Collection consists of 3259 mounted and 1345 

 unmounted specimens of the Orders Accipitres and Striges, 

 and, with the exception of the series in the British Museum, 

 is probably the finest and most nearly complete collection of 

 its kind at present existing. 



Publications of the Second International Ornithological 

 Congress. — Through the kindness of Dr. O. Herman, M.P., 

 we have received from Budapest a complete set of the publi- 

 cations of the Second International Ornithological Congress 

 in connection with their recent meeting. They are numerous 

 and important. Besides Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's Address on 

 Classification (of which a notice is given above), and the 

 Editor^s Address on recent progress in Geographical Ornitho- 

 logy (above, pp. 514-557), there are in this series — (1) ''^ Aves 



