222 Letters, Notes and Extracts. 
7 new species and 19 species new to the Collection, collected 
by Mr. W. Goodfellow, purchased; 450 birds from the 
Wagga Mountains, Somali-land, collected by Mr. G. W. 
Bury, purchased; 450 birds, mostly from the Canary 
Islands, presented by Mr. E.G. B. Meade-Waldo ; 874 birds 
from S.W. Australia, collected by Mr. T. Shortridge, presented 
by Mr. W. E. Balston; 396 birds from Persia, collected by 
Mr. R. B. Woosnam, presented by Col. Bailward ; 326 birds 
from Cameroons, West Africa, collected by Mr. G. L. Bates, 
purchased ; and 18 Silver Pheasants from Upper Burma, 
received in exchange from the Bombay Natural History 
Society. 
The chief points in the progress made with the General 
Collection of Birds are described in the Report as follows :— 
“Considerable progress has been made with the re- 
mounting of the British Birds for the pier-cases in the 
Pavilion and among the series in the General Gallery. 
“Descriptive printed labels have been placed im all the 
cases containing the nesting series of British Birds, and 
framed tablets, shewing the classification adopted, have been 
placed at intervals in the Gallery. Progress has been made 
with the Osteological Collection, and a large number of the 
eggs of the species included in Volume V. of the ‘ Catalogue 
of Birds’ have been incorporated. 
«The arrangement and cataloguing of the skeletons of 
the Tracheophone Passeres, Pteroptochidze, Conopophagide, 
Formicariidze, and Dendrocolaptidee have been proceeded 
with. 
“The collection of birds in spirits has also been over- 
hauled, but cannot be perfectly arranged until better 
accommodation has been provided. 
“A case illustrative of the parasitic habit in birds has been 
installed in the North Hall, near the one containing eggs 
of the Common Cuckoo. In the same neighbourhood have 
been placed some photographs illustrating the manner in 
which young Cuckoos eject the rightful occupants of the 
nest they usurp, and also a label describing the nesting- 
habits of the Cuckoos.” 
