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consequence were included in the genus Sylvia. Another bitter complaint 

 is that " its usefulness is marred by an attempt to make it appear scientific." 

 This last is so funny that we are tempted to ask the redoubtable savant if 

 he will help us to get subscribers for a revised edition of Mr. Swann's Hand- 

 book in which no Latin (or even Greek ? ?) names shall be used, while we 

 will also include gratuitously a list of the meanings of all the " hard " words 

 used in the book; indeed we would endeavour to use only such words as 

 might be suited to the mental calibre of our bewildered complainant, and 

 we would take especial care to call a bird's tarsus its leg, since the latter is 

 such a nice homely word, no matter whether correct or not. 



ADDITIONS TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S COLLECTION 

 DURING AUGUST. 



One Raven (Corvus corax), Europe, presented by A. H. Cullingford, 

 Esq., F.Z.S. (Crows' Cages) ; two Ypecaha Rails (Aramides ypecaha), bred 

 in the Gardens (Eastern Aviary) ; one Common Cormorant (Phalacrocorax 

 carbo), British Isles, presented by Miss G. Howell (Eastern Aviary) ; two 

 Passerine Parrots (Psittacula passerina), S. America, presented by Miss L. 

 Scott Moncrieff (Parrot House) ; one White-browed Amazon (Chrysotis 

 albifrons), Honduras, purchased (Parrot House) ; two Sclater's Curassows 

 (Crax sclatera), Brazil, presented by E. Sutnead, Esq. (Eastern Aviary) ; 

 one Common Sandpiper (Tringovles Jiypoleucus), British Isles, presented by 

 E. C. Sprawson, Esq. (Fish House) ; one Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetus), 

 Spain, presented by F. Leathly Holt, Esq. (Eastern Aviary) ; three Com- 

 mon Blue-birds (Sialia ivilsonii), N. America, presented by A. T. Binny, 

 Esq. (Western Aviary) ; two Stone-Curlews (CEdicnemus scolopax), British 

 Isles, presented by W. J. Kidman, Esq. (Eastern Aviary) ; two Common 

 Blue-birds (Siaiia ivilsonii), N. America, presented by Percy Cockshut, Esq. 

 (Western Aviary) ; two Brush-Turkeys (Talegalla lathami), Australia, 

 deposited (Brush-Turkeys' Enclosure) ; one Black-necked Grackle (Gracupica 

 nigricollis), China, presented by Dr. Nowell (Western Aviary) ; three Ivory 

 Gulls (Pagophila eburnta) and one Richardson's Skua (Stercorarius crcpidatus), 

 Spitzbergen, presented by J. T. Studley, Esq. (Eastern Aviary) ; one 

 Chinese Mynah (Acrid otheres cristatellus), China, received in exchange 

 (Western Aviary); two Variegated Sheldrakes (Tadorna varicgata $ 9- )? 

 New Zealand, presented by Sir Walter L. Buller, K.C.M.G., C.M.Z.S. 

 (Duck Ponds) ; one Beccari's Cassowary (Casuarius beccariif), S.E. New 

 Guinea, deposited (Cassowaries' House) ; two Streaky-headed Grosbeaks 

 (Poliospiza gularis)* S. Africa, presented by Miss Jessie Porter (Western 



* New to the Collection. 



