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paration. A new edition of the Guide to the Galleries of 

 Mammalia is also ready for publication. 



The following are the most important reports or descriptive 

 papers which have been prepared by the Departmental Staff 

 in connection with various parts of the collection, especially 

 recent acquisitions, and have been published in scientific 

 journals : — 



1. "On the species of the Hyracoidea"; " Description of . 

 a new East African Antelope ( Oryx callotis) " ; " On some 

 Mammals from Mount Dulit, North Borneo " ; " On the 

 probable identity of certain specimens in the British Museum 

 with those figured by Albert Seba in his Thesaurus of 1734 " ; 

 " On the Antelopes of the genus Cephalolophus" ; "On the 

 Insectivorous genus Echinops," by 0. Thomas. 



2. " Descriptions of new species of Birds discovered by Mr. 

 C. Hose on Mount Dulit"; " Description of a new species of 

 Calyptomena from North-Western Borneo " ; " On a collec- 

 tion of Birds from Mount Dulit " ; " On the Birds collected 

 by Mr. F. J. Jackson during his recent expedition to Uganda, 

 through the territories of the Imperial British East African 

 Company, with notes by the collector. Parts III-V. Descrip- 

 tions of some new species of Timeliine Birds from West 

 Africa," by R. B. Sharpe. " A short review of the Francolins 

 belonging to the genera Francolinus and Pterinotes " ; " On 

 the Gallinaceous genera Bamhusicola and Arhoricola " ; "On 

 the genus Coturnix," by W. B. 0. Grant. 



3. " List of the species of Reptiles and Fishes collected by 

 Mr. A. E. Pratt on the Upper Yang-tze-kiang and in the 

 Province Sze-chuen, with descriptions of the new species " ; 

 " Report on a collection of Reptiles and Batrachians trans- 

 mitted by Mr. H. H. Johnston from Nyassa Land," by A. 

 Giinther. " A Synopsis of the Tadpoles of European Batra- 

 chians"; Notes on Transcaspian Reptiles"; "On newly 

 discovered East African Chameleons " ; " List of Reptiles and 

 Batrachians from the Transvaal"; "On Reptiles and Batra- 

 chians from the Loo Choo Islands " ; " Third account of the 

 Fishes obtained at Muscat by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. 

 Jayakar " ; " On Lucioperca marina " ; " On new or little 

 known Fishes from Matte Grosso, Brazil," by G. A. 

 Boulenger. 



4. "Descriptions of new species of Shells from Mauritius 

 and California " ; " On the Shells of the Victoria Nyanza or 

 Lake Oukerewe " ; " Further additions to the known marine 

 Molluscan fauna of St. Helena " ; " Additions to the Shell- 

 fauna of the Victoria Nyanza " ; " On the Land Shells of 

 St. Helena " ; " Description of a new species of Slug from 

 South Africa," by E. A. Smith. 



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