162 List o^ donations 



Sabine's Gull, Xema Sahinii, summer plumage, mature, Davis Straits. 



Mr. R. N. Kerr, Dundee. 

 Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps ruficoJlis, winter plumage. Holy Island. 



Mr. Thos. Thompson, WinJaton House. 

 Buzzard, Tierra del Fuego. Mr. P. Hobbs. 



Three Nests of Weaver Bird from neighbourhood of Calcutta. 



Master Gut/ Clephan. 

 Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Mr. Geo. E. Crawliall. 



Egg of Barn-door Fowl, with circular opening at small end, not covered 



with shell but only a thin film, laid at the Mains Farm near Wark- 



wortb. Mr. John Short, Newton Hall, Felton. 



REPTILES. 



A large Viper killed at Gibside. Mr. Johnson, Byer Moor, Burnopjield. 



A small foreign Snake, caught in a fruit warehouse in Newcastle. 



Mr. John Fulton, Jesmond Road. 

 Skin of Lizard, Pietermaritzburg, Natal. 



Mr. F. Fearne, Neale, Pietermaritzhnrg, 

 Skin and rattle of Rattlesnake, from California. Mr. R. Y. Green. 



Specimen of Blind-worm, Shotley Bridge. Mr. John Jackson. 



Vertebral column of large Snake, Darjeeling, India. 



Mr. W. F. Henderson. 

 Snake Skins from S. Africa. Mrs. Gethi'n. 



FISHES. 

 Rostrum of Saw-fish Mr. G. R. Rome, Eldon Street. 



Two specimens of the Scad, Caranx trachurus, from the trawlers, North 

 Shields. Mr. Wm. Gumming. 



Jaw of Porbeagle, Lamna Comubica, caught near Trow Rocks. 



Mr. J. Duncan. 

 A Sapphirine Gurnard, Trigla hirundo, caught off the mouth of the Tyne. 



Mr. R. Howse. 



Muller's Topknot, Rhombus hirtxis. Mr. D. Robinson, High Bridge. 



Large specimen of Grey Mullet, Mugil capita, caught in a salmon net at 



Dunston Battery on the Tyne. Mr. Robert Robson, Derwenihaugh. 



MOLLUSCA, INSECTS, ETC. 

 A few specimens of Anodon, from a pond in Bushbridge Park, Godalmiug. 



Mr. W. Cosens Way. 

 Two specimens of Helix pomatia, from Glion ; five of Lithodomus dactylus, 

 from Toulon. Mr. F. Raine, Hyeres. 



Bone of Cuttlefish from Mediterranean, and other specimens. 



Mr. G. R. Rome. 



