ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 29 



A collection of twenty-two Mammals from Kandy ; purchased. 



Forty-one specimens collected by Mr. Everett, in diiferent islands of the Philippine 

 Group ; purchased. 



The entire collection made by the Rev. G. Brown, in Duke of York's Island, and 

 described by Messrs. Alston and Dobson in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 

 1877; purchased. 



Twenty-five specimens from Ecuador ; purchased. 



The typical specimen of the Surinam Otter {Pteronura sandbachii) ; purchased of the 

 Liverpool Institution. 



A specimen of the Freshwater Dolphin of the River Irawaddy ; obtained from Dr. 

 J. Anderson, by exchange. 



Birds. — The total number of acquisitions amounts to 1,890, of which seventy-three 

 were species entirely new to the collection, and twenty-three typical specimens. The 

 following accessions may be specially mentioned : — 



Fifty-four specimens collected by Captain Feilden during the late Arctic Expedi- 

 tion; presented by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. 



The nest and egg of the Snow-Bunting ; and a pair of Knots with the nestlings, obtained 

 by Captain Feilden, in lat. 82° 33', and presented by the collector. 



Forty-four specimens from Turkey, collected by Mr. W. Pearce, of Constantinople ; 

 presented by R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



The types of Podoces biddulphi, and of Suya obscura ; purchased. 



Fifty-three specimens from China ; presented by the Shanghai Museum. 



Twenty-five birds from the Himalayas and North Western India ; collected by Captain 

 T. Biddulph. 



The type of Oreocincla 'pectoralis, and specimens of Centropus chlororhynchus and 

 Phodilus assimUis (species new to the collection) ; presented by Captain Vincent 

 Legge, K.A. 



A series of 144 specimens selected from the collection formed by Governor Ussher, in 

 Labuan, and N. W. Borneo, containing the types of Lobiophasis castaneicaudatus. Pitta 

 ussheri and Cypselus labitanensis ; purchased. 



Typical examples of Corvus annectens and Polyplectron schleiermacheri ; received in 

 exchange from the Darmstadt Museum. 



Two of the typical specimens of Rectes jobiensis ; purchased. 



Selected series from collections made in New Guinea, by Mr. O. C. Stone, and the 

 late Dr. James, containing seven new species. 



A typical specimen of Chatorhynchus papuensis ; presented by the Dresden Museum. 



Three Casowaries, including the types of Casuarius picticollis and Casuarius sclateri; 

 purchased of the Zoological Society. 



Thirty specimens of Corvidoe, from Australia ; presented by the Trustees of the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney. 



Fifty -two specimens from various islands of the South Seas ; purchased of the Godeffroy 

 Museum. 



The fifth portion of the collection of African Birds, formed by, and formerly in the 

 possession of, Mr. R. B. Sharpe ; it consists of 600 specimens, and contains six types, and 

 many species previously not represented in the British Museum. 



One hundred and fifty-nine specimens from King William's Town ; presented by Lieu- 

 tenant H. Trevelyan. 



Thirty-three specimens from the same locality ; presented by Lieutenant Anstey. 



Twenty Warblers and Chats, from the Transvaal ; presented by Dr. Henry Exton, of 

 Bloemfontein. 



Sixty-nine specimens from Abeokuta, including the type of Amadina sharpii ; presented 

 by F. Nicholson, Esq. 



Reptiles and Amphibians. — The additions to these classes have been 351 in number; 

 the following may be specially mentioned : — 



An adult specimen of Testudo elephantina from Aldabra. It is a male, which weighed 

 870 lbs. at the time when it reached England in 1876 ; it survived its arrival for eighteen 

 months only ; purchased. 



The carapace of an extinct Tortoise from the Mauritius {Testudo inepta); presented by 

 Dr. A. Giinther, p.r.s. 



Twenty-two specimens of Reptiles and Amphibians from Madagascar, containing 

 several new species described by Dr. Giinther in the " Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.," 

 1877, April; purchased. 



The collection made by C. C. Bewsher, Esq., in the island of Johanna ; purchased. 



A series of 104 specimens selected from the collection made by Mr. Everett, in various 

 parts of the Philippine Islands ; purchased. 



The collection made by the Rev. J. S. MacFarlane in islands of Torres Straits, 

 described by Dr. Giinther in the "Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist.," 1877, May; pur- 

 chased. 



The collection made by the Rev. G. Brown in Duke of York Island, and described by 

 Dr. Giinther in the " Proceedings of the Zool. Soc," 1877, February ; purchased. 



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