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occurred in Great Britain. The first was obtained by Mr. John 

 Hancock in September, 1838, near Newcastle, and appeared 

 in the old editions of Yarrell as the ' Dalmatian Regulus/ 

 the second example was obtained at Cheltenham in the same 

 month and year as Mr. PechelFs two birds. " 



Turtur orientalis in Great Britain. — At the Zoological 

 Society's Meeting on May 6th last, Mr. Seebohm exhibited 

 a specimen of the Asiatic Turtle Dove (Turtur orientalis), 

 which had been shot near Scarborough on the 23rd of 

 October 1889. This species (cf. Dresser, B. Eur. vii. pi. 463, 

 p. 45) is new to the British list, but is said to have occurred 

 twice in Scandinavia. 



Valuable Addition to the National Bird-Collection. — Mr. F. 

 DuCane Godman, F.R.S., has made another valuable dona- 

 tion to the great Bird-collection in the British Museum in 

 the shape of a nearly complete series of birds from Florida, 

 U.S.A. This consists of about 2500 skins collected by 

 the well-known American naturalist, Mr. W. E. D. Scott, in 

 various parts of that State. 



The Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum. — Amongst 

 the preceding notices of recent Ornithological Publications in 

 this Number will be found one of the fifteenth volume of the 

 British Museum Catalogue of Birds, containing the account 

 of the Tracheophonine Passeres, which has just been issued. 

 Before the present number of ' The ImV is published, the 

 thirteenth volume, by Mr. Sharpe, containing his account of 

 the last remaining families of the Oscinine Passeres, will pro- 

 bably have also been issued. These two volumes render the 

 catalogue of the great order Passeres complete. The 13 

 volumes devoted to this subject, of which the first was issued 

 in 1877, recognize 6480 species of Passerine Birds, represented 

 in the Museum, at the times of publication of the several 

 volumes respectively, by 61,034 specimens. But enormous 

 additions, it must be recollected, have been made of late years 

 to the groups catalogued in the earlier of these volumes. 



