654. Letters, Announcements, Notes, &c. 
form” (it was described by Dr. Reichenow as S. macrura 
antistropha). I may further state that Mr. Howard Saunders 
and I compared the ‘ Scotia’ specimens with the series of 
S. macrura in the British Museum, and were convinced that 
they were simply typical examples of that species. 
I am, Sirs, yours &c., 
Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Wn. Eacie CLARKE. 
July 1907. 
The Bird-Collection of the British Museum.—We extract 
the following passages on the additions made to the Collection 
of Birds in the British Museum of Natural History during 
the past year, from the Parliamentary Report on that 
Institution for 1907, which was received on August 27th. 
The total number of accessions in the Class “ Aves” 
was 9659, the most noteworthy being the following :— 
119 specimens from Japan and Corea, collected by 
Mr. M. P. Anderson, presented by the Duke of Bedford ; 
500 specimens collected by Mr. M. J. Nicoll during the 
voyage of the R.Y.S. ‘ Valhalla,’ presented by the Earl of 
Crawford, K.T., F.R.S.; 526 birds from Western Yunnan, 
collected and presented by Colonel G. Rippon; 108 birds 
from Upper Burma, presented by Capt. H. H. Harington; 
365 birds from Western Australia, collected by Mr. 
Shortridge, presented by Mr. W. E. Balston; 168 birds 
from Western Virginia, presented by H. T. Burls, Esq.; 
71 birds from Uganda, presented by Dr. Cuthbert Christy ; 
205 specimens from Lower Nigeria, collected by Mr. Robin 
Kemp, purchased; 21 specimens from the River Gambia 
presented by Dr. E. N. Hopkinson ; 19 specimens from 
Sarawak, presented by Mr. R. Shelford; the type of 
a new Hill-Partridge (Arboricola batemani), presented by 
Mr. Eugene W. Oates; a specimen of the Australian Casso- 
wary (Casuarius australis) and 10 Birds of Paradise (Schlegelia 
calva), presented by Sir William Ingram, Bart.; 3 Prince 
of Wales’s Pheasants (Phasianus principalis) from the Hari 
River, presented by Colonel P. Molesworth Sykes, H.B.M. 
Consul-General for Khorasan ; 9 types of new species 
