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Notoryctes typhlops, by Master Frank Sutherland. It is all the 

 more interesting to our collections as it was caught on the sand- 

 hills at Idracoura Station, near the Finke River, in the I^orthern 

 Territory of South Australia, by Mr. Herbert J. Sutherland, 

 and was one of the first specimens of this new Marsupial taken, 

 and is one of the rarest discoveries made in Australia in recent 

 years. A. H. Straker, Esq., of Stagshaw House, Corbridge, 

 presented a fine skull of Rhinoceros hicornis ? and two skins and 

 skulls of Neotragus Kirkii from Somaliland. The proprietor of 

 Sanger's Circus, L. G. Sanger, Esq., presented a fine young 

 Lion, which had been killed in the circus by its companion. 

 This Lion has been carefully preserved by Mr. John Jackson, 

 and through the kindness of an unknown friend, per Mr. E.. Y. 

 Green, a valuable case has been presented to the Society for its 

 exhibition. Mr. J. Ewen, St. Mary's Island, sent a very fine 

 young Seal, Phoca vitulina, caught alive on the Island in August, 

 1894. 



During a visit to the Upper Nile district last winter, Mr. R. C. 

 Clephan fortunately obtained a very fine example of the Bichir, 

 Polypterus hichir, a rare ganoid fish, peculiar to North Africa 

 in the Rivers Nile and Gambia, which is now with the increase 

 of traffic becoming rarer every year in the lower parts of the 

 Nile. The great interest attaching to this fish is that it is al- 

 most the only representative in the present period of a large 

 group of fishes that flourished and were characteristic of the 

 Carboniferous and Devonian Systems of the early Palaeozoic 

 Rocks. Mr. Robson, of Derwenthaugh, presented a very large 

 Grey Mullet, 26 inches in length, caught in the Salmon Nets 

 near Dunston Battery. 



About thirty birds have been presented during the year, of 

 which most have been set up and added to the Collection in the 

 Bird Room. Among these is a fine adult example of Sabiae's 

 Gull, Zenia Sabinii, in summer plumage, from the Arctic regions, 

 presented by R. N. Kerr, Esq., of Dundee. A very fine Golden 

 Eagle, captured in Perthshire, was presented by Bryan Cook- 

 son, Esqr. ; and George Crawhall, Esqr., presented a female 

 Peregrine Falcon, caught in the South of Scotland. Mr. T. 



