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  Under 
  the 
  special 
  head 
  of 
  " 
  Birds 
  " 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  remarks 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  Besides 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  eggs 
  presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Seebohm, 
  

   7866 
  specimens 
  of 
  skins 
  and 
  eggs 
  have 
  been 
  added 
  to 
  this 
  class. 
  

   Some 
  of 
  these 
  additions 
  have 
  already 
  been 
  mentioned. 
  Of 
  

   the 
  others 
  the 
  following 
  are 
  the 
  most 
  important 
  : 
  — 
  Twenty- 
  

   six 
  eggs 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  P. 
  L. 
  Sclater, 
  Esq. 
  Fifty-four 
  

   Parrots 
  and 
  fifty 
  eggs, 
  including 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Lorius 
  tibialis, 
  

   purchased 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  London. 
  Twenty- 
  

   eight 
  specimens 
  of 
  Game-birds 
  from 
  Argyllshire; 
  presented 
  

   by 
  F. 
  Menteith 
  Ogilvie, 
  Esq. 
  Fifty-five 
  Game 
  and 
  Wading- 
  

   birds 
  from 
  Lincolnshire 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  J. 
  H. 
  Caton 
  Haigh, 
  

   Esq. 
  Sixty 
  birds 
  from 
  St. 
  B 
  riders, 
  South 
  Wales 
  ; 
  presented 
  

   by 
  the 
  Hon. 
  W. 
  Edwardes. 
  Twelve 
  specimens 
  from 
  Croatia, 
  

   including 
  examples 
  of 
  a 
  supposed 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Shag 
  

   [Phalacrocorax 
  croaticus*) 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  Professor 
  S. 
  Bru- 
  

   sina. 
  Twenty-three 
  birds 
  from 
  various 
  parts 
  of 
  Asia 
  ; 
  

   presented 
  by 
  Henry 
  Seebohm, 
  Esq. 
  A 
  collection 
  of 
  fifty- 
  

   six 
  birds 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Muscat 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  Surgeon- 
  

   Major 
  A. 
  S. 
  G. 
  Jayakar. 
  Four 
  hundred 
  and 
  eighteen 
  

   specimens 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Dr. 
  Stoliczka 
  in 
  Yarkand, 
  

   during 
  Forsyth's 
  second 
  expedition 
  in 
  1874 
  ; 
  received 
  in 
  

   exchange 
  from 
  the 
  Indian 
  Museum, 
  Calcutta. 
  A 
  pair 
  of 
  

   Bed-billed 
  Curlew 
  [Ibidorhynchus 
  struthersi) 
  , 
  together 
  with 
  

   thirty-seven 
  other 
  birds 
  and 
  nests, 
  from 
  the 
  Pamir; 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  by 
  St. 
  George 
  Littledale, 
  Esq. 
  Ninety-six 
  specimens 
  

   from 
  Corea, 
  including 
  an 
  example 
  of 
  Thriponax 
  kalinoivskyi, 
  

   a 
  large 
  Woodpecker, 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  

   C. 
  W. 
  Campbell, 
  Esq. 
  Thirteen 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  Shan 
  

   Hills, 
  Burmali; 
  presented 
  by 
  Eugene 
  W. 
  Gates, 
  Esq. 
  A 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  four 
  specimens 
  of 
  birds, 
  collected 
  during 
  the 
  

   Steere 
  Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands, 
  containing 
  

   types 
  of 
  Crijptolopha 
  nigrorum 
  and 
  Abrornis 
  olivacea 
  ; 
  ob- 
  

   tained 
  by 
  exchange. 
  Eighty-two 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  above- 
  

   named 
  expedition, 
  containing 
  examples 
  of 
  eighteen 
  species 
  

   new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  purchased. 
  A 
  pair 
  of 
  Loriculns 
  

   bonapartii, 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Lorikeet 
  from 
  the 
  Sulu 
  Islands, 
  new 
  

   * 
  [Orn. 
  Jahrb. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  27.— 
  Ed.] 
  

  

  