President's Address. 121 



In this year an interesting 1 little series of Chinese Birds were 

 presented by Mrs. Ince. They were collected in former years 

 by Captain Ince, after whom Gould named a Paradise Fly- 

 catcher, Tchitrea incei. 



The seventh volume of the e Catalogue of Birds ' was now in 

 progress, and Colonel Wardlaw-Ramsay again presented the 

 Museum with 33 birds from the Philippine Islands and other 

 localities, to help the work. 



Ninety-five birds from Tenasserim were obtained from 

 Colonel C. T. Bingham, and 28 birds from British New Guinea, 

 collected by Mr. A. Goldie, were also added. 



In 1883 the Museum received from the British Association 

 the collections made by Dr. H. O. Forbes in the Tenimber 

 Islands. The birds numbered 103, 25 of which were new to 

 the Museum, 21 being types of new species. 



One hundred and seven specimens of Australian Birds were 

 presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W. The 

 Ley den Museum also presented 13 specimens from Java and 

 the Malay Archipelago, including 8 species new to the col- 

 lection. 



An important series of birds from Mt. Kina Balu and the 

 Lawas River in N.W. Borneo, procured by Mr. F. Burbidge, 

 one of their botanical collectors, was presented by Messrs. 

 Veitch. 



The most important addition to the Museum in 1884 was 

 the collection of birds formed by the late Dr. W. A. Forbes, 

 whose sad death on the Niger will be remembered by most of 

 us. He bequeathed his collection to the Museum. It con- 

 sisted of 426 specimens, and not only included his Nigerian 

 series, but also an interesting set of Weaver-birds and 

 Finches, of which groups he was projecting a monograph. 



Nineteen birds, including the type of a fine new species of 

 Bush Shrike (Laniarius lagdeni), from Kumasi, were pre- 

 sented by Sir Godfrey Lagden. 



Thirteen birds collected in the Solomon Islands, embracing 

 1 type and 7 new species to the collection, were purchased of 

 Mr. Cockerell. 



Sir John Kirk presented 64 birds from the Zambesi, the 

 remains of his old collection formed during the Livingstone 



