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Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Nos. 23 

 and 2i. The Society. 



Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural 

 History Society, Part 2, Vol. IV., 1870-71. The Institution. 



Transactions of the Newcastle Chemical Society, 1870. The Society. 



Report of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of York- 

 shire, 1870. The Society. 



The Anglers' Garland, 1870. Mr. Edwin Pearson. 



Wilson and Bonaparte's Ornithology. W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



Contributions towards completing the Society's set of Proceedings and Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean and Zoological Societies. 



W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



On the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera, by W. K. Parker, F.R.S. ; Prof. 

 T, Rupert Jones, F.G.S. ; and H. B. Brady, F.L.S. The Authors. 



MUSEUM. 



MAMMALS. 



Specimen of the Domestic Cat, showing some of the peculiar characters of 

 the Wild Cat. Rev. T. R. Green. 



BIRDS. 



Specimen of the Bartailed Godwit (Limosa rufa) shot at Newbiggen, August, 

 1870. G. F. Dommer, Esq. 



Skin of Humming Bird. Mr. Harke, Bandmaster, The Barracks. 



Two Specimens of the Ruff (Machetes pagnax), male and female, and one 

 Specimen of the Hoopoe (Upupa epops), shot at Ingiewood Forest, Cum- 

 berland. L. Adamson, Esq. 

 A Specimen of the Ruby Bird of Paradise (Paradisea rubra). 



Mrs. W. D. Cruddas. 

 A Specimen of the Shore Lark (Alauda alpestris). Mr. John Robson. 



White Variety of the Common Starling (Sterna vulgaris), from North Tyne. 



Ernest Charlton, Esq. 

 Variety of the Common Partridge (Perdix cinerea). 



John Warwick, Esq., Callerton Hall. 

 Two Specimens of American Grouse. Thos. Wilson, Esq., Shotley Hall. 



Nest and Eggs of the Moor Hen (Gallinula chloropus). Mr. Wm. Lyall. 

 A Specimen of the Ibis, from Africa. Mr. Thomas Craster. 



Two Specimens of the Purple Sandpiper (Tringa maritima), shot at Whitley. 



Mr. William Hepple. 

 Two Eggs of the Emu. C. O. McAllum, Esq. 



Desiderata from Major Ismay's Collection of British Birds. 



Hugh Taylor, Esq., Chipchase Castle, 



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