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In the next year, 1904, Mr. Rad cliff e Saunders added to his 

 former donations a present of 9948 eggs and 165 nests of 

 Palsearctic birds. One hundred and fifty-four eggs from 

 Foh-Kien were given by Mr. C. B. Pickett, and 85 birds and 

 eggs from Sikhim by Mr. B. B. Osmaston. 



Mr. J. Steele Elliot presented 87 eggs from St. Kilda, and 

 other parts of Scotland. One hundred and twenty-two eggs 

 of Costa Rican birds, collected by Mr. C. J. Underwood, were 

 also added, as well as 745 nests and eggs from Mr. W. Foster's 

 Paraguayan collection. 



In 1904 the additions to the Ornithological Department 

 numbered close upon 18,000 specimens. Prom the Indian 

 region were received 333 birds from the Chindwin Piver in 

 Upper Burma, presented by Captain A. Mears ; and 498 

 specimens collected by Mr. Herbert Pobinson and Mr. Nelson 

 Annandale in the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, were 

 given by the Poyal Society and the Universities of Edinburgh 

 and Liverpool. 



Prom the Malayan Archipelago and the Papuan Islands 

 the Museum received the second set of the collections made 

 in Batchian by Mr. Heinrich Kühn, in S. E. New Guinea and 

 the Solomon Islands by Mr. A. S. Meek, and in the islands 

 of Waigiou and Mindanao by Mr. John Waterstradt — 260 

 in all. 



The Earl of Panfurly made a further donation of New 

 Zealand birds, and the Government of Victoria presented a 

 collection of 59 birds from the vicinity of Adelaide. 



The African collections received in 1904 were of great 

 value. Forty-three birds from the Egyptian Sudan were 

 presented by the Hon. Charles Rothschild, and a fine series 

 of birds from the Baro and Sobat Pivers, collected by Mr. 

 Zaphiro, was presented by Mr. W. N. Macmillan, to whom 

 the Museum has been since indebted for some important col- 

 lections from N.E. Africa. Four hundred and forty-two 

 skins and skeletons of birds from the Uganda Protectorate 

 were presented by Colonel C. Delmé-Radcliffe, and Mr. J. F. 

 Cuninghame added forty-five specimens from Entebbe in 

 Uganda. In the year 1904 the Museum also received from 

 Mr. F. J. Jackson the types of 11 more species discovered by 

 him in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Ruwenzori Range, 



