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gave a collection of 58 birds from the latter country, 

 including many species new to the Museum. After the 

 death of that excellent naturalist, Mr. Perry Simons, his 

 collection of 2300 birds from Peru and Bolivia became the 

 property of the Museum. Two hundred and thirty-one 

 specimens of birds from the Camaroons were received from 

 Mr. G. L. Bates, and 160 birds from the frontier of Yemen, 

 in South Arabia, were sent by Mr. G-. W. Bury. To the 

 West Australian Museum the National Collection was 

 indebted for a series of 32 Accipitres f rom Western Australia, 

 especially useful, as the Museum possessed no specimens 

 from that part of the Australian Continent. A second con- 

 signment of 407 eggs of North American birds was received 

 in exchange from the Museum of Princeton University, New 

 Jersey, U.S.A. 



Other collections received in 1902 were 31 birds from the 

 Aruwhimi River, on the Upper Congo, obtained by Capt. Guy 

 Burrows ; 71 birds from Ecuador and Colombia, collected by 

 Messrs. Micketta and Fleming ; 43 birds from Surinam, 

 presented by Messrs. F. P. and A. P. Penard ; 91 birds from 

 Cyprus, collected by Mr. C. Glazner. Captain Nesbitt 

 presented 15 specimens of Pheasants from Burma, including 

 the type of Gennceus nisbetti ; and Captain Dunn presented 

 59 specimens from the Egyptian Sudan. 



Twenty specimens from the provinces of Shensi, N. China, 

 were sent by Father Hugh to the Museum, which was further 

 indebted to the Hon. Charles Rothschild for. a present of 20 

 birds from the Liu Kiu Islands. 



In 1903 the Museum received a most valuable present of 

 973 birds from the Earl of Crawford. These specimens were 

 procured by Mr. M. J. Nicoli during the voyage of Lord 

 Crawford's yacht, the "Valhalla," to the South Atlantic 

 and Pacific oceans. A large collection of 973 birds, nests 

 and eggs, from Deelfontein, Cape Colony, was presented by 

 Colonel Sloggett, C.M.G. This collection was made by two 

 troopers of the Imperial Yeomanry, Eibert Seimund and Claude 

 Grant, who had been our taxidermists in the British Museum, 

 and the preparation of the skins was in every way excellent. 

 Seimund returned to his duties at the Museum, but Grant 

 has continued his explorations in South Africa, and has 



