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systematic order on racks, preparatory to the final classi- 

 fication and arrangement in proper cabinets and boxes in 

 juxtaposition with collection of skins of the same class. 



The collection of Ducks has been arranged and labelled in 

 accordance with the Catalogue of Birds prepared by Count 

 Salvadori ; the Petrels have been catalogued and arranged by 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, f.r.s. ; and the Gulls and Terns by Mr. 

 Howard Saunders. 



The Herons have also been catalogued and arranged, and 

 the whole of the Plovers and Sandpipers catalogued and 

 placed in glass-topped boxes, 



A group illustrating the " showing-off " of the male of the 

 Great Bustard {Otis tarda) has been mounted ; the specimens 

 having been presented by Abel Chapman, Esq. 



A group illustrating the nesting habits of the Pied Hornbill 

 of South Africa has also been mounted, with a section of the 

 tree in which the female was imprisoned by the male bird. 



The Godwin-Austen Collection and the Shelley Collection 

 have been registered and incorporated in the cabinet series of 

 skins. 



Repliles, Batrachians and Fishes. — Among the mounted 

 specimens added to the exhibited collection may be men- 

 tioned : - 



A large Indian Monitor {Vavanus salvator); a gigantic 

 Sea perch {EpinGijItcliis lanceolatus) from Aden ; a large 

 Sea-perch {Eplnepheliis venadoriiin) from West Mexico ; a 

 large Tunny {Thynnus vulgaris) from Plymouth. Additions 

 have also been made to the case containing the Batrachians, 

 which is now placed in the passage between the Bird and Fish 

 Galleries. 



Mollusea. — The collections of Land and Freshwater Shells 

 collected by Mr. H. H. Smith, in St. Vincent, Grenada, and 

 the Grenadines, under the auspices of the West India Com- 

 mittee of the Royal Society and the British Association have 

 been worked out, and reported on. This work has neces- 

 sitated the examination and identification of the terrestrial 

 and fluviatile mollusca of several of the adjacent islands of 

 the Lesser Antilles. 



An important series of deep-sea Molluscs from the Baj-- of 

 Bengal and the Arabian Sea has also been named and described, 

 and small series from Kolguev Island, Central Africa, and 

 New Guinea have been identified. The species of the genera 

 Clea, Nassodonta, Niso, Amphidromus, and Heterodonax 

 have been critically examined and determined. With the 

 exception of a selection which has been mounted for exhibi- 

 tion in the table-cases, all the acquisitions have been mounted 

 in glass-topped boxes. 



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