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roherti, M. majori and Evotomys ponticus ; ninety-three from 

 the Pyrenees, and fifty-five from Switzerland, S. Italy, and 

 Sicily, collected by Mr. A. Robert ; also sixty-one mammals 

 from British Guiana, collected by Mr. S. B. Warren ; and 

 twenty-three from Montevideo and La Plata, collected by the 

 donor; presented by Oldfield Thomas, Esq. 



ylves.— The total number of accessions was nine thousand 

 six hundred and fifty-nine, the most noteworthy being the 

 following : — 



One hundred and nineteen specimens from Japan and 

 Corea, collected by Mr. M. P. Anderson ; presented by His 

 Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G. 



Five hundred specimens collected by Mr. M. J. Nicoll 

 during the voyage of the R.Y.S. "Valhalla" ; presented by 

 the Earl of Crawford, K.T., F.R.S. 



Five hundred and twenty-six birds from Western Yun- 

 nan ; collected and presented by Colonel G. Rippon. 



One hundred and eight birds from Upper Burma ; pre- 

 sented by Capt. H. H. Harington. 



Three hundred and sixty-five birds from Western Aus- 

 tralia, collected by Mr. Shortridge ; presented by W. E. 

 Balston, Esq. 



One hundred and sixty- eight birds from Western Vir- 

 ginia ; presented by H. T. Burls, Esq. 



Seventy-one birds from Uganda ; presented by Dr. Cuth- 

 bert Christy. 



Two hundred and five specimens from Lower Nigeria, 

 collected by Robin Kemp, Esq.; purchased. 



Twenty-one specimens from the River Gambia ; presented 

 by Dr. E. JS". Hopkinson. 



Nineteen specimens from Sarawak ; presented by R. Shel- 

 ford, Esq. 



The type of a new Hill-Partridge, Arhoricola batemani ; 

 presented by Eugene W. Oates, Esq. 



A specimen of the Australian Cassowary (Casuarius 

 australis), and ten Birds of Paradise (ScJdegelia calva) ; 

 presented by Sir William Ingram, Bart. 



Three Prince of Wales' Pheasants (Pkasianus princi- 

 palis), from the Hari River ; presented by Colonel P. Moles- 

 worth Sykes, H.B.M. Consul-General for Khorasan. 



Nine types of new species from Equatorial Africa ; pre- 

 sented by F. J. Jackson, Esq., C.B., c.m.g. 



Two eggs of the Standard-winged Nightjar (Macrodipteryx 

 Tnacrodipterus) ; presented by J. H. J. Farquhar, Esq. 



Seven specimens of birds, forty nests and eggs, from 

 Setubal, Portugpd ; presented by Don Luiz Gonzaga do 

 Nascimento. 



