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accordance with his wish to the Trustees, has been handed over 

 by his executors. It inchides the tyi)es of 84 species described 

 bv him, and numbers in all 4798 specimens. (3) From 

 Captain E. C. Hardy, R.N., has been received a valuable 

 collection of Birds made by Mr. Willoughby P, Lowe, 

 Avho accompanied H.M.S. * ]Mutine^ as naturalist. Captain 

 Hard}'^ was engaged in carrying out a magnetic survey from 

 the Cape of Good Hope to Sierra Leone, and invited Mr. 

 Lowe to join him as his guest for the purpose of collecting 

 specimens for the Natural History Museum. (4) Mr. G. 

 Blaine has contributed a valuable collection of birds formed 

 during his travels in ]^uatorial Africa. (5) A large series 

 oP Grouse, Black Game, and Ptarmigan, including many 

 interesting phases of plumage and valuable A^arieties, has 

 been presented by the Grouse Disease Inquiry Committee. 



The total number of acquisitions in the class of birds 

 (including the five special donations just mentioned) was 

 30,819. 01: these the most noteworthy were as follows: — 



(1) Two hundred and seventy-six birds from Ireland ; 

 presented by Mr. W. E. Ogilvie-Grant. (2) Five examples 

 of the Irish Jay, Garru/us /libernicus, from Co. Waterford, 

 new to the collection, presented by Count de la Poer. 

 (3) Tw^o Lammergeiers and a Turkey Vulture, presented 

 by the Zoological Society of London. (4) Two nestling 

 Marsh Harriers from the Camargue, presented by Mr. 

 CoUingwood Ingram. (5) Six specimens of species of Para- 

 cloxornis from China, presented by Commander H. Lynes. 

 (6) Twenty-two birds from Sze-chwan, Western China, 

 presented by His Grace the Duke of Bedford. (7) Two 

 hundred and forty-four birds from Central Asia, collected 

 by ]Mr. Douglas Carruthers. (8) Thirty-seven birds from 

 Formosa, collected by Dr. A. Moltrecht. (9) Three hundred 

 and thirty-seven birds from the Island of Palawan, collected 

 by Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe. (10) The type specimens 

 of Tarsiger elgonensis and Irrisor yrant'i, from British East 

 Africa, both new to the collection, presented by Mr. F. J. 

 Jackson, C.B., C.M.G. (11) Nine birds from Equatorial 

 Africa, six species being new to the collection, received in 



