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AvES — continued. 



Five birds from the Southern Shan States ; presented hy J. 

 Pemherton Cook, Esq. 



Two hundred and forty-eight birds from the Island of 

 Shaweishan, South China: collected by J. D. La Touche, Esq. 



The type specimens of Porzana cinerea hrevipes from the 

 Bonin Islands ; presented hy Collingwood Ingram, Esq. 



Four examples of the Persian Pheasant (Phasianus per- 

 sicus) ; presented hy Major P. M. Sylces. 



The co-type of Kuser's Blood Pheasant (Ithagenes kuseri) 

 from Yunnan ; received in exchange from the Paris Museum. 



One hundred and two birds from the Philippine Islands ; 

 collected by J, J. Mouncey, Esq. 



The type specimen of Pucrasia joretiana from Anwhei 

 Province, China ; presented hy the Rev. J. Gourtois. 



Five examples of Cuvier's Silver Pheasant {Gennoius 

 cuvieri) from Upper Burma; presented hy C. Hopwood, Esq. 



Six birds from the Mishmi Hills, collected by Capt. F. M. 

 Bailey ; presented hy the Bomhay Natural History Society. 



Africa. 



One thousand nine hundred and ninety birds from North- 

 east Africa, including the types of Anomalospiza macmillani, 

 Ereraoinela ahyssinica, Pentholoea macmillani, and Brady- 

 ornis granti ; j^'^^esented hy W. N. McMillan, Esq. 



One hundred and eighty-nine birds from the Tana River, 

 including a rare Pipit, Macronyx aurantiigula, which was 

 previously unrepresented in the collection; presented hy G. 

 Blaine, Esq. 



One hundred and forty-two birds from Uganda and the 

 Belgian Congo, collected by Robin Kemp ; presented hy Oldfield 

 Thomas, Esq., F.R.S. 



Nine eggs from British East Africa, including those of a 

 Weaver-Finch, Ploceipasser melanorhynchus, new to the 

 collection ; ptresented hy F. C. Selous, Esq. 



Three rare birds from British East Africa, including examples 

 of Pitta longipennis and Francolinus uluensis ; presented hy 

 R. B. Woosnam, Esq. 



Eleven birds from British East Africa, including a rare 

 Weaver-Finch {Estrilda cyanocephala) new to the collection; 

 presented hy Colonel R. Stephenson Clarke. 



Three hundred and ninety-seven birds from British East 

 Africa, including the type of a new Weaver-Finch {Cryptospiza 

 horealis) ; presented hy A. Blayney Percival, Esq. 



The type-specimen of Erythrocercus nyassa. from Nyasa- 

 land ; presented hy Professor R. Newstead, F.R.S. 



Six birds from Natal ; presented hy E. C. Chuhh, Esq. 



