176 LIST OP DONATIONS 



1891. 



Jan. 3. Golden Ej^e, mature female, shot on the Wear, near Leamside. 



Mr. Alfred C. Chapman. 

 , , 3. Eared Grebe, Podiceps nigricolUs, ? shot at Holy Island. 



Mr. W. E. Beck. 

 ,, 13. Golden Pheasant S in very fine plumage, from Leazes Park. 



Corporation of Newcastle, per Mr. Wilson, Leazes Park. 



,, 20. Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps grisoic/ena, ? immature, shot at 



Bamburgh. iir. Richard Howse. 



,, 23. Beraicle Goose, B. leucopsis, bred by Capt. Noble at Jesmond 



Dene House, 1885. (The same pair of birds had nested in 



1884 and laid six eggs, which were addled. Nest and five 



eggs presented by Mr. C. M. Adamsou to the Hancock 



Collection.) Capt. A. Noble, C.B. 



,, 26. Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps griscegena, J shot at St. Mary's 



Island. Air. W. English, Langhorn Street, Heaton, 



per Mr. G. F. Smithson. 



,, 26. Tufted Duck, Fuligula cristata, 5 mature. (This bird was 



kept at the Leazes Park about 12 years, and was drowned 



by getting under the ice.) Corporation of Neivcastle. 



,, 28. Scaup Pochard, F?(%2(/a ??ianfe, 2 mature, Holy Island, 



Mr. J. Duncan. 

 ,, 31. Sternum of White-tailed Eagle, shot at Eshott, near Felton. 



Master John Bainhridge. 

 Feb. 19. A female Pheasant, in male plumage, shot at Gunnerton. 



Mr. John Coppin, Bingfield. 

 ,, 20. Three Specimens of the Common Guillemot, Uria troile, shot off 

 Tynemouth, one, var., ringvia. Purchased. 



,, 23, Golden Eye, female, mature, shot near Elsdon. 



Mr. J. E. Craivhall. 

 Mai". . Snowflake, Plectrophanes nivalis, Eglingham, Feb., 1891. 



3Ir. C. H. Bryant. 

 April 10. Two Zebra Finches, Amadina castanotis, from Australia, 



M7-S. Noble, Jesmond Dene House. 

 ,, 16. A Hen's Egg containing two chicks well developed 



Mi: Richard Fortune, Falmouth Road, Heaton. 



,, 16. A Black-headed Gull (with very rosy breast and primaries), 



from the Straits of Magellan. Mr. Allan Hobls. 



May 4. Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 5 and ? mature, summer 



plumage. 



,, 19. ,, ,, ,, females, one mature and one 



immatui'e, and one Herring Gull, ? innnature, Nortluim- 



berland Coast, near Tynemouth, Mr. John Duncan. 



