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A Cassowary, Casuarius Bennettt? 



Purchased foom Mr. W. Yellowley. 



Five Carapaces of Tortoise, Skull of Alligator, small Shark from 



CuUercoats, Jaws of Shark, one large Vertebra of Shark, etc., 



etc. Mr. John Hancock. 



Two Koseate Terns (one mature and one young), Northumberland 



Coast. Mr. C. M. Adamson. 



Two specimens of the Shoveller (male and female), shot at Gosforth. 



Mr. N. Dunn. 

 Four Egg Pouches of small Skate, taken from the stomach of a Cod. 



Capt. F. H. Salvin. 



Egg of Ostrich, taken in Abyssinia, brought from Massowah, on 



the Red Sea, May, 1877. Mr. Warjmnan Dixon. 



Small Starry Ray, Raia i-adiata., juv. , with abnormal mouth, Cul- 



lercoats. Mr. Thos. Thompson. 



Skull of Cod, prepared to show vertebral segments. 



Lady Armstrong. 

 Nest and Eggs of Scoter, and Nest and four Eggs of Phalarope. 



Mr. S. Gi'aham. 

 Two young Herons (ten day old), from the neighbourhood of Loch 

 Etive. Mr. A. S. Stevenson. 



Gadwall (mature female), from Leadenhall Market. 



Mr. C. M. Adamson. 

 Two fine specimens of Apteryx Austrcdis, from the Black Mountain, 

 near Whangarei, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. 



Mr. Geo. Burnett. 

 Nest of young Kestrels, taken near Alnwick. Mr. N. Dunn. 



Large Shark's Jaws. M/ . John Dent. 



A large Tunny, Thynnus Thynnus, L., nine feet long, caught in the 

 Salmon nets, off Frenchman's Bay, near South Shields, August 

 24th, 1885. Mr. W. Clift, South Shields. 



Two Shark's Teeth, from Charleston, U.S. America (fossil). 



Mr. G. Morley, Conyers Road, Byker. 



Rook's Nest with five Eggs. Mr. F. Raine. 



Eight Eggs from the Falkland Islands, viz. : Rocky Penguin, Molly- 



moak, two Curlew Tern or Shag Poke, ? Upland Goose, two 



Loggerheads. Mr. Philip Hobhs. 



Specimen of Seesee (male), shot by Col. Julius Barras, at Kach, in 



the Quetta district, Afghanistan, 6,000 feet above sea level. 



Col, Jidius Barras, Queen Anne''s Buildings, St. James' Park, 

 A Hybrid Swan, bred at Gosforth Lake in 1883. A ci'oss between 

 the female Common Wild Swan and the male Mute Swan. 

 Note, In the year 18 — several wild Swans came to Gosforth 



