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A specimen of the very rare Arctocebus Caldbariensis, from the old Calabar; presented 

 by Andrew :^ urrav, Esq. 



Sundry Bats fiom U'esi Africa; presented by Dr. Welwitch and Dr. Peters. 



A collection of North American Bats, named by Mr. Allan, in his Monograph, and pre- 

 sented by the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, U. S. 



The colIec:ion ot skeletons of Cetacea has been increased by the addition of the skulls of 

 Euphysetes, and of five species of Dolphins from India, presented by Sir Walter Elhot, 

 K.c.s.i. ; and hv the addition of a skeleton of the Inia, sent from the upper parts of the 

 Amazon, by iVJr. Bartlett, jun. ; and by the skull of the nearly allied genus Pontoporia, 

 obtained at Buenos Ayres, and presented by Professor Burmeister, Director of the Royal 

 Museum at Buenos Avres. The Indian specimens have been described by Professor Owen, 

 and the South American ones by Mr. W. Flower, in the "Transactions o^' the Zoological 

 Society," 1866. 



A skeleton of the Delfhinus tursio, from the coast of Anglesey. 



Acollection of Human Skulls of the Ino tribe of Japan; presented by Captain Vyse, 

 Her Majesty's Consul, and Alfred Howard, Esq. 



A series of small German Mammalia ; presented by Dr. Giinther. 



Some Mammalia from Ceylon; presented by Viscount Walden. 



Three specimens of Platypus; n female of Echidna, presented by Sir Daniel Cooper, 

 Bait. 



The collection of Birrls has been considerably enlarged, and several families in the collec- 

 tion, as the Crows, Thrushes, and Woodpeckers, have been examined, and the nomenclature 

 revised so as to make it conformablt- with the more modern work. 



The collection of GalUnm has been extended by the addition of several very rare species, 

 and the entire order has been revised and catalogued. The catalogue embraces 340 species, 

 many of which are described for the first time, and it contains the types of beautiful and 

 remarkable sj^ecies that have been described within the last few years by Messrs. Swinhoe, 

 Elliot, Gould, and other ornithologists. 



A series of the Bones of the Dodo, from Mauritius, has been added to the collection, 

 and they are placed with the leg and cast of the head in the public room. These bones 

 have been described by Professor Owen, in the "Transactions of the Zoological Society." 



The follov/ing additions may also be recorded : 



A series of birds from Ceylon; presented by Viscount Walden. 



A specimen of Black Swan, shot at Lough Beg, near Ringaskiddy, County Cork, and 

 presented by R. H. B. Campbell, Esq. 



A series of Birds from Central America, some of which are new to science, and are of 

 great interest. 



A large collection of Birds from Malacca ; presented by William Harvey, Esq. 



A specimen of the Malayan Eagle, Aquila Malayana, shot m India, and presented by 

 H. S. H. Prince Frederick, of tf chleswig Holsf.ein. 



A series of Birds from Gilolo, Ceram, New Guinea, &c., collected bv A. Wallace, Esq.; 

 many ot which have lately been described. 



A specimen of the extremely rare Cabot's Horned Pheasant (Ceriornis Caboti), from 

 North China. 



Numerous specimens of Birds from Japan, Mexico, Damara Land, and Asia Minor, &c. 



A series of Birds from Central America, presented by Osbert Salvin, Esq; 



The collection of Reptiles has been enriched by the addition of various interesting 

 species, but especially by a series of fine specimens chiefly from the Dutch Colonies, being a 

 selection of all the specimens that were desirable for the Museum, from the famous collec- 

 tion at Utrecht, which is now being dispersed by sale. 



The specimens added to the collection of Ophidians in the course of last year, have been 

 named and entered into the catalogue, and the new species have been described. This 

 collection, containing 827 species in about 5,000 examples, is now nearly complete, so that 

 comparatively few of the specimens, lately offered, have been found to be desiderata. 



Dr. W. Lockhart, the medical missionary at Pekin, has presented an interesting spe- 

 cimen of a young fresh water tortoise (Emys), with the back entirely covered with a spe- 

 cies of conferva, from Kia-kang, Yan-tse. This is evidently the animal so frequently 

 represented in the Japanese books, and which has been described as a tortoise covered with 

 hair. 



Specimens of Reptiles, from the Cape de Verd Islands, have been presented by the Rev. 

 T. Lowe. 



A series of Reptiles collected in Formosa by H. M. Consul Swinhoe. 



Large additions have been made in the collection of Fish, especially by — 



A series of the typical specimens of the Cyprinoid-fish, obtained and described by Dr. 

 Bleeker, from the Dutch East Indian Archipelago. 



A large collection of Fish, collected by Colonel Playfair, at Zanzibar. These Fish have 

 been determined, and are about to be published in a separate work on the Fish of Zanzibar, 

 by Colonel Playfair and Dr. Giinther. 



A large series of Fish, from Central America, collected by Messrs. D. Godwin and 

 O. Salvin ; they have been systematically arranged, and have been described in a memoir 

 to be published in "The Transactions ofthe Zoological Society." 



A large collection of Fish, from the Dutch iiast Indian Colonies and Guiana, from the 

 lUtrecht Museum. 



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