^8 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



8. Five hundred and eighty-four Lucanida, 22 Cc.tonidcB, and 78 CleridcB ; being a 

 portion of Major Pnrry's collection, and containing 63 type specimens ; purchased. 



Mammalia: — The additions to this class were 755, of which the following are most 

 worthy of note:- — • 



Eight human stulls and bones from Purley, Surrey; presented by Dr. A. Carpenter. 



Six skeletons of Indian natives; presented by Dr. F. Coull Mackenzie. 



Four human skulls from Peru ; presented by A. Corrie, Esq. 



Thirty skulls of natives of New Zeal.md ; presented by T. F. Cheeseman, Esq. 



A skeleton, two heads, and an abnormal horn of the Roebuck ; presented by the Eai-1 

 of Cawdor. 



Skeletons of a Beaver from Norfolk ; purchased. 



A Beaver from the Hhone ; pui'chased, 



A skeleton of Rudolphi's Korqual (Balcenoptera borealis) from Goole ; purchased. 



A Finwale {B'dcBnoplera sj). i/icerta) from Hampshire; purchased. 



A Vandean GrifFon-Hound ; pi-esented by F. Adcock, Esq. 



A skeleton and a double-tusked skull of the Narwhal (^Monodon monoceros); 

 purchased. 



A model of a Greenland Whale (BalcB/ia mysticetus) ; presented by Captain D. Gray. 



A pair of stuffed Gaur {Bibos gaurus) from Central India; purchased. 



Two Cyprian Sheep ( Ovis ophion) from Cyprus, new to the collection ; collected and 

 presented by His Excellency General Sir R. Biddulph. 



Twelve mammals from Muscat ; presented by Dr. A. S. G. Jayakar. 



A specimen of Parodoxurus Jiiusschenbrocltii, new to the collection ; received in ex- 

 change from the Leyden Museum. 



Eight mammals from Somali-land ; purchased. 



The type specimen of Heterocep/ialus 2)hillipsi from Central Somali-land ; presented by 

 E. Lort Phillips, Esq. 



Two Dugong's skeletons from Lamoo; presontea by J. Haggard, Esq. 



Forty-nine Peruvian Muridce, including the types of three new species ; presented by 

 Professor L. Taczanowski. 



Twenty-seven mammals from Rio Grande do Sul ; collected by Di\ von Ihering. 



Specimens of Pulorhis nigripcs and Hespsromys leuvogastcr from the United States, 

 both new to the collection ; presented by the Smithsonian Institution. 



Five Bats from the Amazon; j^vesented by J. H. Leech, Esq. 



A skeleton and skull of the Sea Leopard {Stenorhynclius hplonyx) from the Falkland 

 Islands ; j)resented by E. A. Holmested, Esq. 



An Otter from Buenos Ayres ; presented by Lord Lilford. 



Eleven mammals from Buenos Ayres ; collected by the late Mr. H. Durnford ; pur- 

 chased. 



A skeleton of the Southern Dugong {Halicore australis) from Queensland; purchased. 



Eight Muridce from Queensland ; presented by the Brisbane Museum. 



Birds : — Besides the " Hume " collection with 82,000 skins and eggs, and besides 5,331 

 specimens from the "Salvinand Godman" collection, and 2,281 from the "Sclater" collec- 

 tion, the additions amount fo 2,149, of which the most important are the following : — 



Pairs of the parent birds of the King Ouzel, Shoveller, Teal, Pochard, and Tufted 

 Duck, with their nests and eggs, from Norfolk ; presented by Lord Walsingham. 



Pairs of the parent birds of the Common Gull, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed 

 Gull, Arctic tern (five pairs), and Ilichardson's Skua (two pairs), with their nests and 

 eggs, or youEg, from the Island of Moussa, Shetland; presented by Lieut. G. H. Bruce, 

 K.N., and E. M. Nelson, Esq. 



Nest and young, with parent bird of the Common Wren ; presented by Colonel Irby. 



A pair of Teal, with nest and young, from Tring ; presented by the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild. 



Nine hundred and thirty-six specimens from various localities; presented by R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, Esq. 



Thirty Finches from Northern France and the Vosges Mountains ; presented by 

 E. Hargitt, Esq. 



Twenty specimens of Finches and Starlings from Norway; presented by the Chris- 

 tiania Museum. 



Twelve specimens of rare Buntings from Siberia and Japan; presented by Henry 

 Seebohm, Esq. 



Three specimens of Steller's Sea- eagle (/^o/me/Ms /je/o^/cM.?) from Kamtchatka ; pre- 

 sented by Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



A collection of 198 specimens from Fao in the Persian Gulf; presented by W. D. Gum- 

 ming, Esq. 



Twenty-four specimens from the Island of Palawan, collected by W. E. Lempriere, 

 containing 13 species new to the collection, with three types of new species; purchased. 



Two specimens of i^cf/crj Z>«Z>_?//o??.z(7<s, and one ofi''. peregrinns from Eajputana; pre- 

 sented by Scrope Doig, Esq. 



Sixty-six skins from Muscat, including the types of Merops musratensis and Bubo 

 millsi ; presented by Colonel Mills. 



Twenty-two birds from Aden ; presented by Major Yerbury, r.a. 



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