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parts of N.W. Borneo, and in 1870 the Museum acquired a 

 series of 151 birds from these regions, the collection forming 

 the basis of my paper on the ' Birds of Labuan,' published 

 in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society for 1875 

 (pp. 99-111). As it turned out, Sir Hugh Low's agent in 

 London had not kept the collections from Labuan and the 

 mainland of Borneo separate, and had submitted the collec- 

 tion to me as being all from the Island of Labuan. Thus 

 when Governor Ussher succeeded Sir Hugh Low as Governor 

 of Labuan, he made a careful collection of the birds of the 

 island, and I was enabled to correct several mistakes which 

 had occurred in my previous memoir (cf. P.Z.S. 1879, 

 pp. 317-354 ; Ibis, 1879, pp. 233-272). Governor Treacher had 

 also made an interesting collection of birds in the same parts 

 of Borneo : these he presented to the Museum at Oxford, 

 but I was permitted to include an account of them in my 

 paper. 



The year 1876 was also notable for the addition of 77 

 birds from Professor J. B. Steere's first expedition to the 

 Philippine Islands. I had described the collection in the 

 ' Transactions' of the Linnœan Society (Trans. Linn. Soc. (z.) 

 i., pp. 307-355), and had named 40 new species. The typical 

 specimens and the first set Professor Steere kept for America, 

 but he very kindly allowed us to acquire the second set, 

 which added 20 species to the Museum collection. 



In the year 1877 the Museum began to receive its first 

 additions from British New Guinea. Twenty-five specimens 

 from Mr. 0. C. Stone's exploration added seven new species, and 

 three more were added from the expedition of Dr. James, a 

 young American collector of great promise, who was unfortu- 

 nately killed by the natives at Yule Island. Major 

 Trevelyan this year presented 138 specimens from King- 

 williamstown : this was a valuable contribution, as the 

 Museum possessed little or no material from the Eastern 

 Cape Colony. 



Governor Ussher was keeping a staff of native collectors at 

 work in N.W. Borneo, and 144 specimens from Labuan and 

 the adjacent islands as well as from the Lawas River, Brunei 

 and Lumbidan, were received from him. 



