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118. Sonsa on Birds from Angola. 



[Aveg da Huilla (Angola) remettidas ao Museu de Lisboa pelo Rever- 

 endo Padre Antunes. Por Jos^ Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. Sci. Math. 

 Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, 2" ser. no. 1, p. 37, 1889.] 



A list is given of 25 species of birds represented in a col- 

 lection remitted by Padre Antunes from Huilla, in Angola. 

 One species is described as new {Serinus huillensis), and Ci- 

 conia nigra is mentioned as occurring in Angola for the first 

 time. 



119. Sousa on Birds collected by Sr. Anchieta. 



[Aves de Angola da Explora^ao do Sr. Jose d'Anchieta. Por Jose 

 Augusto de Sousa. Jorn. Sci. Math. Phys. e Nat. Lisboa, 2* ser. no. 1, 

 p. 41, 1889.] 



Sr. Sousa gives an account of a second* collection obtained 

 by the well-known collector Sr, Anchieta in Quindumbo, in 

 S.E. Africa, in the autumn of 1887, together with some notes 

 of the collector. The specimens are referred to 46 species, 

 whereof one, Lagonosticta cinereo-vinacea, is described as 

 new. Others are noted as rare or imperfectly known. 



120. Strauch on the Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg. 



[Das Zoologische Museum der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissen- 

 schaften zu St. Petersburg in seineni fiinfzig jiihrigen Bestehen. Von 

 Dr. Alexander Strauch. St. Petersburg : 1889.] 



In this instructive memoir we find a complete history of 

 the past and present state of the celebrated Museum of 

 St. Petersburg, its buildings, endowments, staff, and collec- 

 tions, prepared by Dr. Strauch, the present Director. The 

 Museum was founded by John Frederick Brandt (its first 

 Director) in 1832, upon whose death, in 1879, the present 

 Director succeeded him. 



The ornithological collection, although rich in possessing 

 the types of Menetries, Brandt, Nordraann, Middeudorf, 

 V. Shrenck, Radde, Eversmann, Przewalsky, and many other 

 well-known Russian travellers and collectors, is not large, 



* See Jorn. Sc. Lisboa, xii. p. 21G, for an account of the first collection. 

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