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Mr. C. B. Rickett gave a further consignment of I860 

 birds from Southern China, and 202 birds and eggs from the 

 Island of Hainan, collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead, 

 were either purchased or presented by Mr. J. T. Thomasson, 

 one of the subscribers to the Whitehead Expedition Fund. 

 Captain A. W. S. Wingate presented 190 birds from 

 Yun-nan and W. China, and 953 birds from the Shan States, 

 including the types of 7 new species, were given by Colonel 

 Bippon. 



Four hundred and two birds and eggs from N. W. Borneo 

 were sent by Dr. Charles Hose. 



Several valuable additions to the series of African birds 

 in the Museum took place in 1900. Mrs. Jameson presented 

 the remainder of the collections made by her late husband, 

 J. S. Jameson, in Mashonaland and on the Upper Congo. 

 Three hundred and nine birds from Nyasa Land were pre- 

 sented by Sir Alfred Sharpe and General Manning. Ninety- 

 five specimens from his expedition to the Zambesi were 

 given by Lieut. Boyd Alexander, and 70 birds and eggs 

 from the River Ruo, in Zambesi, were obtained from 

 Mr. A. Blayne} 7 Percival. Mr. F. J. Jackson presented the 

 types of 7 more new species discovered by him in Equatorial 

 Africa. 



A collection of 82 birds from the Zeraf River in the Sudan, 

 was presented by Capt. H. 1ST. Dunn, and a very interesting 

 and important series of birds from Southern Abyssinia, 

 consisting of 417 specimens, with the types of 16 new species, 

 was presented by Mr. H. Weld-Blundell and Lord Lovat. 

 Two hundred and forty-three specimens from South Arabia 

 were obtained by the Percival-Dodson expedition, and 85 

 specimens from the Mac-kinder expedition to Mount Kenya. 

 Two hundred birds were received from Mr. Perry O. Simons, 

 from Ecuador and Peru. 



In the year 1900 the Museum received a first consignment 

 of 32 birds from Mr. G. L. Bates ; these were from the French 

 Congo. A valuable series of 568 eggs of North American 

 birds was received in exchange from the Museum of Princeton 

 University, New Jersey, U.S.A. 



The most notable addition to the Museum in 1901 was 

 the Crowley bequest. Fifteen thousand one hundred and 



