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A short-eared Owl (Asio accipitrinus) from King's Co., Ireland. 

 Presented hy R. Mc Combe, Esq. 



A little Owl (^Athene noctua) from Tonbridge. Presented hy the 

 Rev. J. H. Hale. 



A Red-legged Partridge (Caccabis ricfa) from Pershore, Worces- 

 tershire. Presented by Col. A. C. Bailward. 



A little Auk {Alca alle) from Perth. Presented by G. 

 Brooksbank, Esq. 



Asia. 



10 Eggs of the Mikado Pheasant (Calophasis mikado). Presented 

 by the Duke of Bedford, K.G. 



1,077 birds and 380 eggs from Siam. Presented by E. G. 

 Herbert, Esq. 



906 eggs of birds from Eastern China. Presented by J. D. La 

 Touche, Esq. 



293 birds, chiefly from India and Ceylon. Presented by A. L. 

 Butler, Esq. 



Africa. 



713 birds from various localities, chiefly the Sudan, including 

 the types of three newly-described species. Presented by A. L. 

 Butler, Esq. 



1,315 birds from British East Africa and Uganda, including 

 two types of newly-described forms. Presented by Capt. G. P. 

 Cosens. 



590 eggs of birds from the Cameroons. Presented by G. L. Bates, 

 Esq. 



98 birds from the Cameroons, collected by G. L. Bates, Esq. 

 Received in exchange. 



America, South. 



Two examples of the Great Snipe (Gallinago gigantea), from 

 Paraguay. Presented by the Trustees of the late James Rowland 

 Ward. 



20 eggs and four nests of birds from Western Ecuador. 

 Presented by W. Goodfellow, Esq. 



89 birds from Western Ecuador, including the types of five new 

 species. Presented by E. J. Brook, Esq. ■ 



Australasia. 



1,529 birds, 38 eggs, and 13 nests, including nine types of newly- 

 described species, from Dutch New Guinea. Presented by the 

 Subscribers to the British Ornithologists^ Union Expedition to Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



A mounted example of Keysser's Cassowary ( Casuarius keysseri) 

 from the Rawlinson Mountains, N.E. New Guinea. Presented by 

 Lord Rothschild, F.R.S. 



