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Each individual example of these classes has been carefully marked and entered in the 

 manuscript Register of Accessions, with a corresponding date and number, as affixed on 

 the specimen thus referred to. The Register also contains a record of the locality at 

 which the specimen was collected, and at the same time shows how it was acquired, 

 whether presented by a donor or obtained by purchase. 



The examples obtained by purchase have been selected from different Collections with 

 great care, as being the most desirable for completing the series previously contained in 

 the British Museum, either in the way of additional species, or as specimens illustrating 

 the differences that exist in allied species in various localities, or as exhibiting the gradual 

 chano-es which take place during their development and growth towards maturity. 

 Others are also highly interesting as being the typical specimens on which the species 

 were established by zoologists in their monographs, or in papers published in the various 

 periodicals. 



The different portions of the collection which are exhibited in the cases in the public 

 rooms for the instruction and amusement of the students and visitors have been cleaned 

 and re-arranged ; while the series of skins and bones of Vertebrated Animals, which are 

 kept in boxes, the general collection of Animals preserved in spirits, and the collection 

 of Insects, Crustacea, and Radiated Animals which are contained in cabinets for the 

 use of more scientific students, have been re-examined, with the view of adopting 

 the arrangements that have been lately promulgated by naturalists, of adding new 

 specimens where necessary, and of facilitating the means of access to the specimens, 

 when required for the purpose of study. 



The Zoological Collections contained both in the private rooms and in the public 

 rooms, have been visited on private days by 2,681 students for the especial purpose of 

 scientifically studying their various portions. 



The following Catalogues have been printed during the year 1869 : — 



" Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia." By 

 John Edward Gray, F.K.6. 



" Catalogue of Dermaptera Saltatoria." Part I., II. By Francis Walker, r. L.S. 

 " Hand List of Genera and Species of Birds." Part I. By George Robert Gray, 

 F.K.S., &c. 



The collection of Mammals has been increased by the following examples, some of 

 which are highly interesting : — 



A large collection of Mammalia, among which was a fine skeleton of Rhinoceros 

 Keitloa, from Abyssinia ; collected by W. Jesse, Esq. 



A collection of dolphin skulls, two of which are the typical specimens described under 

 the names oi Petrorhynchus capensis and Ziphius Lai/ardii, by Dr. Gray, and presented by 

 the Trustees of the South African Museum, Cape Town. 



A small collection of interesting Mammalia, collected in the neighbourhood of Bombay ; 

 presented by Dr. Leith. 



A new species of deer Furcifer ? collected at Tinta ; by Mr. Whitely. 



A large collection of Mammalia, among which was the Pectinator Spekei, Blyth, and a 

 new species of Hyrax; collected by W. T. Blanford, Esq., and presented by his Excel- 

 lency the Governor and the Council of the Bombay Government, through W. T. 

 Blanford, Esq. 



Six plaster casts of the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia ; presented by the Trustees 

 of the Melbourne Library, Australia. 



The following additions to the collection of Birds may be recorded ; some of them are 

 remarkable for their rarity : — 



A specimen of the rare Honey Buzzard, Machaerhamphus alcinus, from Damaraland. 



A specimen of the rare Parro't, Basyptilus Pecqueti, Lesson, from New Guinea. 



A large series of Humming-birds, among which are the ioWo^mg:— Eugenia imperatrix, 

 Fanoplites Jnrdinii, Lophornis HelencB, Saucerottia Warszewiczi, Campy lopter us splendens, 

 C. (Equator ialis, Eutoxeres heterura, Chrysolampis Osberti, Gouldia melanosiernou.^ 



Spedmena of Buteo hemilasius, Artamus melanops, Pachycephala Jiavifrons, Sturnoides 

 gigas, Leptornis samoensis, &c. 



A specimen (in spirits) of the Steatornis caripensis, from Trinidad ; presented by the 

 Hon. A. Gordon, late Governor of Trinidad. 



A series of specimens of Birds, from E. Peru, collected by Mr. E. Bartlett, among which 

 are Oatinops yurucarium, O. anqustifrons, O. atrovirens, Clypicterus Oseryi, Oryzoborus 

 melas, S/nffornis major, Heteropelma Wallacei, Heterocercus Unteatus, Rhynchocyclus 

 megacephalus, Tinamus guttatus. r-i i i n i 



Specimens of Syrnium sehputo, from Java ; Loriculus Sclateri, from Celebes : tydop- 

 sitta Coxeni, Psi^tes coccineopterus, Cuculus minutillus, Machcerir/iynchus Jlaviveuter, 

 Ptilotis Cockerellii, and Malurus hypoleucus, from N. Australia. _ 



The typical specimens of Trochalopteron Fairbanki, and of Callene albiventris, from 

 South India ; presented by the Rev. S. Fairbank, through W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



A series of Birds from the Transvaal Republic of South Africa; presented by A. 



Foresman, Esq. . . i u u- 



A lar^e series of Abyssinian Birds, consisting of 472 specimens ; presented by ins 

 Excellency the Governor and the Council of the Bombay Government, through W. 1. 

 Blanford, Esq. . 



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