PROCEEDINGS, 



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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 

 Mr. H. M. Phipson, the Honorary Secretary, acknowledged receipt of the 

 following contributions to the Society's Museum since the last meeting: — 



Contributions. 



Description. 



Contributor. 



1 Brown tree snake 



1 Scaley ant-eater 



1 Snake (alive) 



Sggs of the following :— 



White-winged myna 



Siamese myna 



Burmese pied-myna 



Magpie robin 



Small Himalyan yelloW' 



naped Woodpecker. 

 Indian skimmer 



Little tern 



Brown rock-chat 



.1 Palm civet 



2 Eed-billed blue Magpies. 

 1 Chestnut bellied rock- 

 thrush. 



Tree lizard''s eggs , 



Geoko^'s eggs 



1 Woodcock 



Dijjsas forstenii 



Manis pentadactylus 

 Zanienis fasciolatus ... 



Sturnia nemorioflla 



^thiop.sar grandis....... 



Sturncpastor superciliart 

 Copsyclms saularis 



> Gecinus chlorolophus . 



Bhynoho^JS aliicollis 



Sterna minuta 



Cercomela fusca 



Faradoxurus niger 



Urocissa occi2ntalis 



PetropMla erytlirogaster 



Mr. F. Dundas-Whiffin. 



Mrs. Fawcett. 



Mr. F. G. Hutchinson. 



Capt. H. H. Harrington. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



Do. 



Major C. E. Bartlett, E.A. 

 M.C. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Mr. F. L. Goldsmid. 

 Mr. S. L. Whymper. 



Do. 



Calotes versicolor Eev. H. Mould. 



Hemidactylus sp Mr. W. F. Hamilton. 



Scolopas! rusticola jMr, J. W. Fellowes. 



COLLECTION OF BIRDS' SKINS. 

 Mr. Comber drew attention to a most interesting collection of bird skins 

 mostly excellent specimens, received lately from Captain H. H. Harrington 

 which he had collected around Kamaing, and other parts of the Myitkyina 

 district, Upper Burma. The collection consists of 112 specimens representing 

 74 species, and of these 27 are new to the Society's^ collection, as 

 follows : — 



No. 87, Trochalopterum phoeniceum crimson-winged laughing thrush ; No. 

 137, Gampsorhynchus rufuius, white-headed shrike babbler ; No. 143, 

 Peilorneum minus, Sharpe's spotted babbler ; No. 169, Stachyris nigriceps, 

 black-throated babbler ; No. 203, Sibia picaoides long-tailed sibia ; No. 222, 

 iva sordida, dull siva ; No. 228, Zosterops simplex, Swinhoe's white-eye ; No. 

 238, Pteruthius seralatus, Tickell's shrike-tit ; No. 257, Mesia argentaris, silver 

 eared mesia ; No. 276, Hemixus tickelli, Tickell's bulbulj No. 287, Xanthixus 

 flavesceus, Blyth's bulbul ; No. 290, Otocompsa flaviventris, black-crested 

 yellow bulbul ; No, 333, Dicrurus cineraceus, grey dronga ; No. 522, Oriolus 

 traillii, maroon oriole ; No. 535, Spodiopsar cineraceus, grey:starling ; No. 539 

 Sturnia nemoricola, white-winged myna ; No, 553, Athiopsar grandis, Siamese 

 myna ; No. 554, iEthi' psar albicinctus collared myna ; No. 559, Hemichelidon 

 Serruginea, ferruginous flycatcher ; No,:569, Cyornis melanoleucus, little pied 

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