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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 
April 16, 1856. . very valuable donation of Australian Birds, Mammals, and 
Fossils, made by the Government Museum of Natural History, at Melbourne, 
upon the "agen of Oliver H. Holden, Esq., of that city, formerly a resident 
„as fol 
female; rka 
oe male; Spheniscus minor, Little Pen eii Lestris catarractes, 
Skua Gull; Ardea Nove Hollandie, White-fronted Hero ecurvirostris rubri- 
collis, rasie male and female ; Eöpsaltria Australis, Yollow-bresstod. Rasy 
male and female; Xema Jamesonii, Ji 's Gull; Lobivanellus lobatus, Spur- 
Winged Plover, or Alarm-bird; Hema empto White-breasted bem 
catcher; Spatula rhynchotis, rabiem. ‘Shovell er, 
Little Teal: Malacorhynchus membranaceus, st Shoraiien; fon d rhyn- 
— Shoveller, female s Schani clus magnus, Great Sandpiper; Anas punctata, 
Chestnut- proe Duc i Petroica multicolor, Scarlet-breasted Robin, ma aja and 
female ; antopus leucocephalus, MaA headed Stilt ; pe acidea berigora, 
Brown or Eastern Coa Bernicla jubata, Wood Duck, male and female; 
Nycticorax Culedonicus, d Bi rd; Biziura lobata, ur k Du ck, male and 
female; Anas superciliosa, Australian Wild Duck; Athene (?) connivens, pei 
Owl; Cuculus inornatus, Unadorned — ; Rallus pectoralis, Cuv., ectoral 
Land d Rail; —— — Little Scrub Pigeon; Pe Aie chal- 
coptera, Bronze-winged Pigeon ; Diano galerita, White Cockatoo ; Dacelo 
gigantea, Laughing doo eser hina — White-bae ked Magpie; — 
delic ; Delicate Ow d Quail, wu and fe E 
Cygnus atratus, Black eid 2; pia m Australi n Tringa; ps i 
Collu s mats Biu ec Entom myza; Colluri Harmonious | 
cla, fem Phalacrocorax carboides, Ded n Cormorant; thoni 
minima, Little come Myzantha garrula, Miner; Euphema aurantia, Orange- 
bellied Gras s-Parrakeet ; Acanthogenys rufogularis, Spingchecked Honey-Eater; 
ynchus cornic Cidadan, Friar Bird; Rallus Lewinii, Lewin’s Water-Rail; — 
Pennantii, Lory ; Anthochera carunculata, "Co mmon Wattle-bird;. 
thamii, oii Spotedsided Finch; Cthenicola — Little Cthonicola, 2; 
, Red-eared Lorikeet 6235 
Platycercus 
Satin Bower-Bird, rate 
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punctatum, Spotted Ground-Thrush; paoa pond 
comis; Pachycephala glaucura, Grey-tailed Pair opna peras 
usos, E, cer Rainy Cuculus inspergivs, Brash € uekoo ; Crac- — 
ird; 2:3 lluricinela; ^ 
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