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The types of two. new Pigeons (Petrojyhassa rufipennis 

 and Ptilo'pus alligator) from Alligator River, N. W. Australia ; 

 received in exchange from Professor R. Collett. 



Forty specimens of Larks and other birds from Morocco 

 and Tunis, including three very rare species new to the 

 collection ; presented by J. T. S. Whitaker, Esq. 



Eight birds from Para, including the rare Psophia ohscura, 

 new to the collection ; presented by Dr. A. E. Goeldi. 



Seventy-four birds, from the Khin-gan Mountains, Mon- 

 golia ; presented by Dr. Donaldson Smith and J. E. and 

 G. L. Farnum, Esqs. 



Fifty-three birds from Mozambique ; presented by H. S. H. 

 Cavendish, Esq. 



Twenty-four birds from the Owen Stanley Mountains, 

 S.E. New Guinea; purchased. 



One hundred and eighteen birds from British Guiana ; 

 presented by Dr. J. J. Quelch and F. V. McConnell, Esq. 



Seventy-two birds from N. Borneo ; collected by J. B. Bell, 

 Esq. ; purchased. 



The nest and eggs of Prince Albert's Rifle Bird {Crasjjedo- 

 'phora alherti) from Queensland ; received in exchange from 

 D. Le Souef, Esq. 



Sixty -one birds from Southern Somaliland and the Lake 

 Rudolph district ; presented by Lord Delamere. 



Twenty-eight specimens from New Guinea, tfec, including 

 five species new to the collection ; received in exchange from 

 the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P. 



Ninety three birds from the Louisiade Archipelago, collected 

 by Mr. A. S. Meek ; purchased. 



Twenty-one specimens of birds from Lahej, Southern 

 Arabia, and one hundred and sixfcj'-three specimens from 

 Somaliland, including types of three new species; presented 

 by R. McD. Hawker,' Esq. 



Two hundred and thirty-eight birds from Nyasaland ; 

 presented by Alfred Sharpe, Esq., C.B. 



Sixty-six birds from the Salisbury district in Mashona- 

 land, including the type of Stactolcema soiverhyi, a new 

 species of Barbet; collected by Mr. J. L. Sowerby; purchased. 



Ninety-five birds from Machakos, British East Africa ; 

 presented by Dr. S. L. Hinde. 



Eighteen birds from Central Australia ; procured during 

 the Horn Expedition, and presented by W. A. Horn, Esq. 



Seventy-seven specimens from Muscat, Arabia; presented 

 by Surgeon-Lieut. -Colonel Jayakar. 



Twenty-one birds from Mt. Albert Edward, S.E. New 

 Guinea; purchased. 



Sixty-four eggs of Gulls and Ducks from the Smolen 

 Islands, N. Norway ; presented by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. 



