92 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Capreolus capreolus, Pantholops hodgsoni, and Buhalis 

 boselaphus. Rodeiitia : — Mus sylvaticus ; Aplodontia major ; 

 Lagothrix humboldti ; Hystrix cristata ; and Dolichotis 

 patachonica. Cetacea: — Half models have been made and 

 affixed to the skeletons of the followino- specimens : Sperm 

 Whale (Physeter m(xcroce2:>halus), Biscay Right Whale 

 (Balcena biscayensis), Beluga or White Whale (Delphin- 

 apterus leucas), Northern Rorqual {BalcGnoptera borealis), 

 and Common Rorqual (B. inusculus). 



Aves. — One of the most valuable of the donations to the 

 Bird department during the year 1898 was that made by 

 Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. 1,344 specimens have been 

 selected from his collection, which contained a series of birds 

 from Quetta obtained by the late Sir Oliver B. St. John, as well 

 as a set of the specimens obtained by Dr. Blanford himself in 

 Sind and Central India. These collections, especially those 

 from the last-named locality, were very valuable as supple- 

 menting the great Hume collection already presented to the 

 Trustees by Mr. Allan Hume, C.B. 



Mr. R. McD. Hawker, during his recent expedition to 

 Somaliland, took with him a collector on purpose to pre- 

 serve specimens of Mammalia and Birds for the Museum. 

 His donation of 160 birds was a most interesting addition to 

 the Museum series, and contained the types of four new 

 species, and nine species not previously represented in the 

 Museum Collection. 



The Collection of Birds bequeathed by the late Mr. Henry 

 Seebohm in 1896 has now been registered, and the specimens 

 incorporated in the bird-cabinets. The Seebohm Collection 

 consisted of 13,460 specimens, with 139 types, and 39 species 

 new to the collection of the British Museum. This donation 

 is one of the most important ever received by the Trustees 

 of the Museum. For several years past Mr. Seebohm had 

 given portions of his collection of birds to the Museum to 

 assist the prepai-ation of the "Catalogue," and the whole of 

 his magnificent collection of eggs had also been presented by 

 him to the Museum. 



The series bequeathed by him, however, contained the 

 results of his expeditions to Siberia and various countries in 

 Europe, the Swinhoe collection of Chinese birds, the Pryer 

 collection of Japanese birds, Doerries' collections from the 

 Amoor, besides others from India, Borneo, and various 

 portions of the globe. 



A further instalment of the Salvin-Godman collection, 

 amounting to 3,408 specimens, has been received and 

 registered, and the registration and incorporation of the 

 Hargitt collection of Woodpeckers has been completed. 



The lamented death of Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. , has de- 

 prived the Museum of one of its most valued workers, as his 

 unrivalled knowledge of the South American Avifauna 

 rendered his aid in the determination of species simply 



