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Museum, through the Director, Dr. F. Moreno. Twenty 

 rare birds from Bolivia were given by Count von Berlepsch ; 

 and Sir Martin Conway presented 23 specimens procured by 

 him in the last-named country. 



Thirty birds from Muscat were presented by Colonel 

 Jayakar, and 18 specimens from Yarkand by Captain H. P. 

 Deasy. The year 1898 also saw the presentation, by the 

 Boy al Society, of the collection of 221 birds and eggs 

 (including types of 8 new species) obtained in the islands of 

 Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri by Mr. W. i&. Ogilvie-Grant and 

 Dr. H. 0. Forbes ; and Mr. F. J. Jackson presented the 

 types of 8 new species procured by him in Uganda. 



The Museum likewise acquired the second set of skins 

 and eggs, consisting of 717 specimens, procured by the 

 Webster-Harris expedition to the Galapagos Archipelago, 

 and the first of a series of collections was received from Mr. 

 Perry O. Simons, from Ecuador and Puna Island. One 

 hundred and three birds from Canada were presented by Mr. 

 J. H. Fleming, who had in 1898 sent a series of 443 specimens 

 in exchange. Strange as it may appear, these were almost 

 the only birds which the Museum had received from Canada 

 since the days of the early travellers in the Hudson's Bay 

 Territory, in the early part of the last century. 



Count Arrigoni degli Oddi presented in 1899, an interest- 

 ing series of 100 birds from various parts of Italy, and Dr. 

 Lopez Seoane sent 18 specimens from the neighbourhood of 

 Coruna in Spain. 



An interesting series of 55 birds from the Gold Coast 

 Hinterland was presented by Colonel H. P. Northcott, and 

 Dr. Cuthbert Christy gave a series of 27 birds and eg'gs from 

 the Niger. 



One of the most remarkable additions to the Museum 

 during the year 1900 was the collection of birds made in the 

 New Hebrides group of islands by Captain A. M. Farquhar, 

 no less than 12 species being new to science. A fine series 

 of Birds of Paradise was presented by Sir P. G. Le Hunte, 

 the Governor of British New Guinea. Two hundred and 

 twenty-nine Australian birds and eggs were presented by 

 Mr. Donald Mcintosh, and 35 birds from North Queensland 

 by Mr. Herbert C. Eobinson. 



