﻿156 
  Letters, 
  Extracts, 
  Notices, 
  &^c. 
  

  

  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild. 
  

   A 
  tail-feather 
  of 
  an 
  Argus 
  Pheasant^ 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Argus 
  

   trijjunctatus 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  Edward 
  Bartlett, 
  Esq. 
  An 
  

   example 
  of 
  a 
  rare 
  species 
  of 
  Lark 
  {Spilocori/don 
  hypermetrus) 
  

   and 
  of 
  a 
  Bunting 
  [Fringillaria 
  poliopleura) 
  from 
  Shoa, 
  both 
  

   new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  received 
  in 
  exchange 
  from 
  the 
  Turin 
  

   Museum. 
  Thirty-two 
  specimens 
  from 
  St. 
  Thomas' 
  and 
  

   Prince's 
  Islands, 
  West 
  Africa^ 
  comprising 
  examples 
  of 
  six 
  

   species 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  Professor 
  Bar- 
  

   boza 
  du 
  Bocage. 
  Sixteen 
  birds 
  from 
  East 
  Africa, 
  including 
  

   SIX 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  received 
  in 
  exchange 
  from 
  the 
  

   Berlin 
  Museum. 
  Ten 
  birds 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Islands, 
  in- 
  

   cluding 
  examples 
  of 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  Petrel 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  J. 
  J. 
  Lister, 
  Esq. 
  The 
  type 
  specimen 
  

   of 
  a 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Petrel 
  {CEstrelata 
  cervicalis) 
  from 
  the 
  

   Kermadec 
  Islands 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  Captain 
  Carpenter. 
  The 
  

   type 
  of 
  Erythrura 
  regia, 
  a 
  Weaver 
  Finch 
  from 
  Api, 
  New 
  

   Hebrides; 
  presented 
  by 
  P. 
  L. 
  Sclater, 
  Esq., 
  F.R.S. 
  Speci- 
  

   mens 
  of 
  three 
  Kingfishers 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Tanysiptera 
  {Tany- 
  

   siptera 
  obiensis, 
  T. 
  emil'ue, 
  and 
  T. 
  eUioti), 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collec- 
  

   tion, 
  received 
  in 
  exchange 
  from 
  the 
  Leyden 
  Museum. 
  Two 
  

   specimens 
  of 
  a 
  Kingfisher 
  (Halcyon 
  aJhicilla) 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  

   species 
  of 
  Honey-sucker 
  [Cleptornis 
  marctiU) 
  from 
  the 
  

   Marianne 
  Islands, 
  both 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  

   the 
  Paris 
  IMuseiim. 
  Nine 
  specimens 
  of 
  Buzzards, 
  and 
  

   thirteen 
  other 
  specimens 
  from 
  Montana 
  and 
  Dakota; 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  by 
  E. 
  S. 
  Cameron, 
  Esq. 
  Three 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty 
  

   skins 
  of 
  birds 
  from 
  Chili 
  and 
  Tarapaca, 
  including 
  a 
  rare 
  

   Avocet 
  {JRecurvirostra 
  andhia) 
  and 
  examples 
  of 
  several 
  other 
  

   species 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  ; 
  presented 
  by 
  H. 
  Berkeley 
  

   James, 
  Esq. 
  Thirty-four 
  nests 
  and 
  eggs 
  from 
  Barbados, 
  

   presented 
  by 
  Colonel 
  H. 
  W. 
  Feilden, 
  R.A." 
  

  

  The 
  Bird-Collections 
  in 
  the 
  Oxford 
  University 
  Museum. 
  — 
  

   In 
  last 
  year's 
  volume 
  of 
  this 
  journal 
  (Ibis, 
  1892, 
  p. 
  187) 
  I 
  

   called 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  state 
  of 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  birds 
  in 
  the 
  

   Oxford 
  University 
  jMuseum. 
  I 
  have 
  lately 
  paid 
  another 
  

   Adsit 
  to 
  the 
  Museum, 
  and 
  was 
  pleased 
  to 
  find 
  that 
  some 
  pro- 
  

  

  