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Report of the British Museum. 

 From the Return of the British Museum for 1920 

 we cull the following items of interest relating to the 

 Bird-Room. 



Valuable assistance in the arrangement of the collection 

 and determination of the accessions has been given by 

 Mr. C. W. Mackworth-Praed and others. Mr. W. L. Sclater 

 has made a revision of the Birds of Prey and prepared a 

 manuscript catalogue of the group. Capt. H. Lyues, C.B., 

 R.N., has worked out the valuable collection made on his 

 expedition to Darfur and presented by him to the Museum. 

 Mr. D. A. Bannerman has continued his work on the Birds 

 of West Africa, and Mr. C. Chubb has woiked at the 

 South American Birds and has also continued the list of 

 type-specimens in the collection. 



Among more important acquisitions are: — 

 41 Birds from Mesopotamia and Persia presented by Mr. F. 

 A. Buxton, and 172 birds and 69 eg<4s from the same 

 region presented by Capt. C. R. S. Pitman. 

 37 Birds from Ceylon, presented by Mr. W. W. A. Phillips. 

 608 Birds from Sumatra, presented by Messrs, 11. C. Robin- 

 son and C. B. Kloss. 

 A restoration of the White Dodo of Bourbon (Dldus bor- 

 bonicus) and a West African Ostrich (Struthio camelus) 

 from the Gold Coast, presented by the Trustees of the 

 Rowland Ward bequest. 

 727 Birds from Darfur and Kordofan, including many types, 



presented by Capt. H. Lynes, C.B., R.N. 

 569 Birds from Cameroon, presented by Mr. G. L. Bates. 

 133 Birds from northern Rhodesia, including one type, pre- 

 sented by Col. Stephenson Clarke, C.B. 

 608 Birds from Sierra Leone and Nigeria collected by 



Mr. W. P. Lowe. 

 270 Birds and 923 eggs from Argentina, presented by 



Mr. Ernest Gibson. 

 840 Birds from Peru, presented by the late Lord Brabourne. 



Altogether 5540 skins and 1333 eggs have been added to 

 the collection during 1920. 



