140 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Mammalia- — continued. 



Twenty-two mammals from S. E. Brazil ; presented hy 

 Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R.S. 



One hundred and thirty-six mammals from South America ; 

 presented hy the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 



Thirty-nine mammals from Sta. Catharina ; purchased. 



Thirty-seven mammals from Colombia ; presented by Dr. 

 H. 0. F. Spurrell. 



Two Howling Monkeys from Argentina ; presented hy R. F. 

 Clark, ~ 



Seven mammals from South America ; presented hy the 

 Goeldi Museum, Para. 



Eight mammals from Peru ; presented by the late Gapt. 

 H. S. Toppin. 



Three mammals from Ecuador ; presented hy W. Goodfellow, 

 Esq. 



Twenty mammals from South America ; presented by the 

 Buenos Aires Museum. 



Thirteen mammals from Demerara ; presented hy Mrs. 

 McConnell. 



A deformed skull (human) from Inca ruins, Peru ; presented 

 hy Dr. Foraldo. 



Australasia. 



Three mammals from Australia ; presented hy the Perth 

 Museum, Western Australia. 



Forty mammals from the Admiralty Islands and New 

 Guinea ; purchased. 



The " death-mask " of an Australian Aboriginal ; presented 

 hy Henry Mole, Esq. 



A skull of Mesoplodon australis, from Great Exhibition 

 Bay, New Zealand ; presented hy the British Antarctic 

 (" Terra Nova ") Expedition, 1910. 



Antarctica. 



Two paddles of Sibbald's Rorqual (Baloinoptera musculus), 

 and the scapula, and a vertebra of another specimen 95 feet 

 long ; two paddles of the Common Rorqual {B. physalus) ; 

 two paddles of the Humpback-Whale {31egaptera); together 

 with foetuses and viscera of these Whales collected by the late 

 Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton in S. Georgia ; presented hy 

 Messrs. Chr. Salvesen and Co. 



AVES. 



The acquisitions number seven thousand five hundred and 

 sixty-two. Of these, the most noteworthy are as follows : — ■ 



From Various Localities. 



Sixty-four birds from various localities, mounted for 

 exhibition in the public gallery ; presented by the Trustees of 

 the late James Rowland Ward. 



