ACCOU^TS, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 57 



Sixty ppecimens from the Caucasus and Altai Mountains ; received in exchange from 

 the St. Petersburg Museum. 



Eiglity-two specimens from South Manchuria ; presented by 11. K. jM. James, Esq. 

 Twenty-five specimens from China, including the types of Pnrnaturhiniis stijani and 

 Trochalopteron cinereiceps ; presented by F. AV. Styan, Esq. 

 Nineteen specimens from the Hills of Perak; presented by L. Wray, Esq. 

 Sixty birds from North America; presented by PI. K. Coale, Esq. 



Eighty-two specimens from Califoi'nia, including the type of Colinus ridgwayi; pre- 

 sented by G. Frean Morcom, Esq. 



Thirty -five birds from the Cameroons, including the types of four new species 

 {Psalidoprocne fiiHginosa, PoUopicus johmtoni, Laniarius atioflavus and Ploccm melanu- 

 gaster) ; collected by H. H. Johnston, Esq., and presented by the British Association. 



Seventeen specimens from the Upper Congo, including nine species new to the collec- 

 tion; purchased. 



Six specimens from Masai Land, five of them being species new to the collection ; 

 purchased. 



Twenty-five specimens from the Solomon Islands, including the types o£ Ninox solomonis 

 Rollus intactm and Mino hreffti ; presented by P. L. Sclater, Esq. 



Thirty-five specimens from the Solomon Islands, including a new species (Macrocorax 

 woodfordi ; purchased. 



Six specimens from New Ireland, including the types oi Donudcola hunslcini, Myzomela 

 ramsayi and Carpophaga suhflavcscens ; purchased. 



Seventy-five specimens from the Horseshoe Range of the Astrolabe Mountains, New 

 Guinea; collected by Mr. Komilly and presented by the Queensland Commissioners for 

 the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. 



One hundred and ninety-two specimens from N.W. Australia ; collected by the late 

 T. H. Bowver Bower, Esq., and presented by Captain Bowyer Bower. 



One hundred and thirty-five specimens from various localities ; presented by R. B- 

 Sharpe, Esq. 



Sixteen specimens from various localities, including seven species new to the collection ; 

 presented by Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



Thirteen specimens from various localities ; presented by Colonel Irby. 



Reptiles : — Eight hundred and ninety-nine specimens have been added to this class, 

 of which the following: are most worthy of note : — 



Eight lizards from Mogador, including a Gecko new to the collection {Gymnodactylu^ 

 mauritanicus) ; received in exchange from the Zoological Museum, Berlin. 



Forty specimens from Cyprus; presented by tiie Right H(m. Lord Lilford. 



Fourteen specimens from Russian Asia ; obtained in exchange from the St. Petersburg 

 Museum. 



Thirty-one specimens from Muscat, Arabia ; presented by Surgeon Major A. S. G. 

 Jayakar. 



Nineteen specimens from the borders of the Persian Gulf; presented by E. Lort 

 Phillips, Esq. 



Forty-four specimens from Persia and Sind, including types of si)Ocies described by 

 Mr. J. A. Murray ; purchased. 



Twelve specimens from various Indian and Burmese localities ; presented by W. T. 

 Blandford, Esq., f.r.s. 



Twenty shells and skulls of Tortoises from Bengal and Burma; obtained in exchange 

 from W. Theobald, Esq. 



Sixteen Lizards from Burma ; presented by W. Theobald, Esq. 



Thirty-eight specimens from the Loo Choc Islands, including the types of two new 

 species '{Tacky dromus smaragdinvs and Tropidonutus pryeri), and representatives of several 

 species which were previously desiderata; presented by H. Pryer, Esq. 



Nine Lizards from Japan ; presented by Dr. J. Anderson, r.ii.s. 



Seventeen specimens Irom Sarawak, Borneo ; among them a new Snake ( Calamaria 

 lowii) ; presented by the late Brooke Low, Esq. 



Ten specimens from New Guinea and the Moluccas, comprising a new Gecko ( Gehyra 

 marginatd) ; purchased. 



Twenty-two specimens from the Solomon Islands, among them types of five new species ; 

 purchased. 



Thirty-four specimens from the East Coast of Africa and Kilima-njara, including three 

 new species of Snakes ; presented by F. Jackson, Esq. 



Five Lizards from the Lower Congo, among them two new to the collection {Ablcpharus 

 cabindcR and Sepsina hessii) ; purchased. 



The type specimen of a new Snake from South Africa {Lamprophis Jiskii) ; presented 

 by the Zoological Society of London, 



A new species of Lizards from the Kalahari Desert '( Choiidrodactylus u-ciri) ; ])resented 

 by J. Jenner Weir, Esq. 



Fifty-five specimens from Madagascar, comprising examples of several new snakca 

 {Langaha intermedia) and two new Chamajleons: purchased. 



Forty-one specimens from Indiana and Florida ; received in exchange from the Uni- 

 versity of Indiana. 



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