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obtained the second set. In 1901 a series of 125 birds, with 

 nests and eggs, collected by Mr. E. Weiske hi the interior of 

 British New Guinea, was acquired, and 23 species, with types 

 of 9 new ones, were added to the Museum collection. 



A further consignment of 211 birds from Ecuador and 

 Peru was received from Mr. Perry 0. Simons. Mr. G. L. 

 Bates forwarded another collection from the Camaroons, and 

 5 species proved to be new to science. 



The Earl of Eanfurly was at the same time forming a col- 

 lection for the Museum from the outlying islands of New 

 Zealand, and among the 67 birds received from him was a 

 new species of Cormorant, which was named Phalacrocorax 

 ranfurlyi, after its discoverer, by Mr. Ogil vie- Grant. Sir 

 Harry Johnston presented 179 specimens from Equatorial 

 Africa, of which 4 were types of new species, one being a 

 beautiful new Touraco, which I named GaUirex johnstoni. 



Eighty-one specimens from Deelfontein, Cape Colony, were 

 presented by Colonel A. T. Sloggett, P.M.O., of the Imperial 

 Yeomanry Hospital. These birds were procured by one of 

 our taxidermists, E. Seimund, who had joined the Yeomanry, 

 and had been invalided. Not having a gun, he procured all 

 the specimens with a catapult. 



In the year 1902 the National Collection added to its list 

 of donors the name of Mr. W. Radcliffe Saunders, who has 

 been a very good friend to the Museum. In this year he 

 presented 2220 eggs of Palsearctic and Nearctic birds, 

 this adding the eggs of many species previously unrepre- 

 sented in the Museum, and this same year was remarkable 

 for the number of additions to the collection made by old 

 friends of the National Collection. Thus 17 types of new 

 species from Equatorial Africa were received from Mr. 

 E. J. Jackson, and 617 birds from Western Yun-nan from 

 Colonel Bippon, 58 birds from New Zealand and its islands 

 from the Earl of Eanfurly; 212 birds from Nyasa Land from 

 Sir Alfred Sharpe ; 623 birds and eggs from Foh-Kien, from 

 Mr. C. B. Bickett ; 450 birds from the Upper Nile and the 

 Egyptian Sudan, from Mr. B. M. Hawker. 



A large collection of 385 birds from Somali Land and 

 Southern Abyssinia, was presented by Sir Alfred Pease ; 

 and Captain Barton, the Governor of British New Guinea, 



