1®8 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Two Ruminants (Ammotragus tragelaphus and Gazella 

 dor can ' from near Biskra, Algeria ; presented by Sir Edmund 

 G. Loder, Bart. 



A set of twenty specimens containing the type of Croci- 

 dura crossei, from Asaba, 150 miles up the River Niger; 

 collected and presented by Dr. W. H. Crosse. 



Six specimens from Lukoya, Niger ; presented by Captain 



F. D. Lugard. 



Nineteen small Mammals of various genera collected at 

 Rondebosch, near Cape Town ; pi-esented by F. C. Selous, 

 Esq. 



Seventy small Mammals collected at Mazoe, Mashonaland ; 

 presented by F. ffolliott Darling, Esq. 



Five small Mammals from Salisbury, Mashonaland, con- 

 taining the type of Georychus darlingi ; presented by 



G. A. 'K. Marshall, Esq. 



A small series of Mammals collected at Fort Johnston, 

 Nyasa ; presented by Dr. Percy Rendall. 



The type specimen of Anomalurus cinereus from the 

 Upper Rovuma River, near Lake Nyasa ; presented by Canon 

 H. B.Tristram. 



A skin and skull of Oercocehus aterrimus from Lake Tan- 

 ganyika, and a series of twenty-three specimens mostly col- 

 lected in the neighbourhood of Zomba, Nyasa ; presented by 

 Sir H. H. Johnston, k.c.b. 



Eighteen Mammals collected by G. F. Scott Elliot, Esq., 

 chiefly in Uganda, and at the Albert Edward Nyanza ; pre- 

 sented by the collector. 



A male example of a Cervicajrra from E. Africa ; presented 

 by Major R. Kenrick. 



A valuable collection of eighty-nine specimens collected 

 chiefly in Aden, and presented by Colonel J. W. Yerbury. 

 There are several new species among them, notably specimens 

 of Gerhill'us famulus, G. poecilops, G. lixa, and Meriones 

 rex. 



The horn of Cervus (Dama) mesopotamicus, a co-type of 

 the species from Persia ; presented by Sir Douglas Brooke. 



An interesting series of specimens ccmtaining examples of 

 Platacanthomys lasiurus, from Travancore ; presented by 

 H. S. Ferguson, Esq. 



Five Mammals obtained chiefly near Benares ; presented by 

 Lieutenant S. S. Flower. 



Seven Rodents from Assam ; presented by Colonel H. H. 

 Godwin Austen. 



Three Ruminants from Nort-west Attai ; presented by 

 Major C. S. Cumberland. 



Five specimens, including the type of Helictis everetti, 

 collected by A. Everett, Esq., at Mount Kina Balu and North 

 Borneo ; purchased. 



A most valuable collection of forty-two specimens collected 



