G74 Letters, Extracts, and Notices. 



The Sarawak Museum. — The report of the Sarawak 

 Museum for 1903, drawn up by Mr. R. Shelford, M.A., 

 M.B.O.U., gives a good account of the condition of that 

 flourishing establishment. The zoological collections have 

 received many accessions during the past year, amongst which 

 are enumerated examples of nine additional species of birds. 

 The type and only certainly identified specimen of Spilornis 

 raja has been transferred to the National Collection at South 

 Kensington. It has been discovered that an example of a 

 Stork received from the Baram district in 1892 and hitherto 

 referred to Dissura episcopus really belongs to the nearly 

 allied species recently described and figured in this Journal 

 as Dissura mortoni ('Ibis/ 1903, p. 145, pi. v.), but more 

 correctly named Dissura stormi (see above, p. 642) . 



We are informed that Mr. Shelford is about to resign the 

 Curatorship of the Sarawak Museum and will return to 

 England in June next. We believe that we may state that 

 the vacant post, which is in the gift of H.E. The Rajah of 

 Sarawak, is likely to be offered to another active and well- 

 known member of our Union. 



We may take this opportunity of mentioning that the 

 Rajah of Sarawak, who has an English residence at 

 Cirencester, has lately built in that town a new Museum for 

 the exhibition of the products of Borneo of all kinds, which 

 will shortly be open to the public. A series of the native 

 birds of Borneo will form a portion of its contents. 



