The Editor — Ornitholoyy at Mutiich, S^c. 107 



numbering some ] 2,000 specimens, is very well -arranged, and 



all the specimens are excellently mounted. There are many 



rarities among them, the groups best represented being, 



perhaps, the Paradise-birds and the Pheasants. Among the 



former are beautiful specimens oiDrepanornis hruijni, Paradis- 



ornis rudo/phi, Parotia lawesi, and Lophorhina minor. Among 



the latter, if I understand rightly, are all the specimens of 



Mr. Elliotts collection upon which he based his ' Monograph of 



the Phasianidse.' Amongst them I noticed fine specimens of 



Phasiayius principalis, P. vlangali, P. shaivi, P. insignis, 



P. scmitorquatus, P. strauchi, and male, female, and young of 



Lophophorus I'huysi. Other noticeable specimens in the 



general collection are examples of Otis dybowskii, 0. heuylini, 



Gallinayo stricklandi (from Valdivia), Nycticorax cucullatus 



(from Gaboon), Aptenodytes imperator, Nyctiornis brewcri, 



Geopsittacus occidentalis , and Corythaix leucolophus. There 



is also an example of Alca impennis, purchased of Moschler 



many years ago. 



In the same building on the upper story is a complete and 

 well-mounted series of the Birds of Wurtemberg, belonging 

 to the Verein fiir vaterlandische Naturkunde. Among the 

 rarities here are examples of Puffinus kuhli, obtained near 

 Stuttgart in October 1891, of Phalacrocorax pygmmus from 

 Upper Suabia, obtained in 1857, and of Btrnicla rujicollis, 

 from near Lem berg (January 1844). "^ 



Darmstadt is well known to ornithologists from the fame 

 of Dr. J. J. Kaup, who was for many years Custos of the 

 Grand-Ducal Naturalien-Sammlung, which is lodged in part 

 of the Palace. The present occupant of this office is Dr. 

 J. V. Koch, and the Preparator is Herr Kusthardt. The 

 mounted collection of birds consists of some 6000 specimens, 

 and there are also some 6000 skins. They have all been 

 examined and determined by the late Dr. Briiggemaun (who 

 died in London in 1878) and contain many of his types — 

 Pitta kochi, Ptilopus fischeri, Polyplectrus schleiermacheri, 

 and Ibis macrorhyncha (N.E. Africa, Harmer). The series 



* A list of the birds of Wiiilemberg was published by Dr. Krauss 

 in ' Das Ktinigreich W'urttembergs,' Fauna, p. 487 (18b0j. 



