DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 1 i3 



AvES — continued. 



America, North. 



Three examples of a rare Ptarmigan, Lagopus welchi, from 

 Newfoundland ; presented by R. G. Geoffrey Harley, Esq. 



Fifty-one birds from British Columbia ; collected by- 

 Mr. J. A. Munro. 



Twenty birds and four eggs from Colorado ; received in 

 exchange from Mr, W. Cross. 



Fourteen birds from California ; received in exchange from 

 Dr. L. B. Bishop. 



America, Central and South. 



Nine hundred and fifty-five birds, chiefly from the West 

 Indies ; collected by Dr. Percy E.. Lowe ; purchased. 



Two examples of a rare Duck, Anas diazi, from Mexico ; 

 received in exchange from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, 



Five birds from the West Indies and three from Venezuela; 

 received in exchange from the Tring Museum. 



Thirty birds, one nest, and five eggs from Tobago, West 

 Indies, including Saucerottia wellsi, previously unrepresented 

 in the collection ; collected and presented by W. E. 

 Broadway, Esq. 



Twenty-one birds from the Lower Amazons, including 

 fourteen species hitherto unrepresented in the collection ; 

 collected and presented by Miss E. Snethlage. 



Nineteen birds from the Argentine Chaco ; collected and 

 presented by R. F. Clark, Esq, 



Seven hundred and fifty birds from the neighbourhood 

 of Merida, W. Venezuela ; purchased. 



Three hundred and fifty-seven birds, chiefly from Peru, 

 including the type-specimens of two newly described birds, 

 Buarremon matucanensis and Upucerthia juninensis : 

 collected and presented by Lord Brabourne. 



Australasia. 



An example of Casuarius sclateri from South Dutch New 

 Guinea ; purchased from the Zoological Society of London. 



Six birds from Goodenough Island ; collected by Mr, A. S. 

 Meek ; purchased. 



Seventy-eight birds from New Guinea and the Papuan 

 Islands, including male and female examples of Pitta superba 

 from the Admiralty Islands, and the type-specimen of a newly 

 described form from the Solomon Islands, previously unrepre- 

 sented in the collection ; received in exchange from the Tring 

 Museum. 



Antarctica. 



One hundred and eight birds and thirteen eggs, collected by 

 the late Dr. E. A. Wilson during the voyage of the " Terra 



