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of Hymenoptera is added to the collections of W. W. Saunders, Sir 

 Sidney Saunders, F. W. Hope, J. 0. Westwood, to the numerous types 

 of Frederick Smith, and to the large number of accessions registered 

 in these reports during the past ten years, the most interesting of all 

 the orders of insects will be represented in Oxford by one of the great 

 collections of the world." 



The following important additions have been made to the menagerie 

 of the Zoological Gardens, Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, by the members 

 of the staff of these gardens who left Cairo for the Sudan on 

 May 10th last, and returned on August 10th with the following live 

 animals : — One very fine young female Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) 

 from Kordofan, deposited by H.H. the Khedive, three African Ele- 

 phants, fifteen Sudanese Lions, one Libyan Cat (Felis ochreata), three 

 Genet-Cats (Genetta dongolana), three White-tailed Mongeese (Herpestes 

 aibicauda), two Zebra Mongeese (Crossarchus zebra), one Pale Fox 

 (Cards pallida), one Ratel (Mellivora ratel), one Black-nosed Eed 

 Monkey (Cercopithecus patas), one White-nosed Red Monkey (C. pyr- 

 rhonotus), one Grivet Monkey (C. cethiops), one Ethiopian Hedgehog 

 (Erinaceus cBthiopicus) , four Ground- Squirrels (Xerus erythropus), five 

 Korin Gazelles (Gazella riififrons), two Oribi (Ourebia montana), two 

 Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) , one Sabre-horned Antelope (Oryx 

 leucoryx), one Darfur Ram (Ovis aries var. ?), one (Elian's Wart Hog 

 (Phacochcerus africanus), one Fish Eagle (Halicetus vociferus), one Eagle 

 Owl (Bubo cineraseens), two Senegal, or Saddle-billed, Storks (Ephippio 

 rhynchus senegalensis), one Sacred Ibis (Ibis cethiopica), three Golden- 

 crowned Cranes (Balearica cecilia), three Egyptian Geese (Chenalopex 

 mjyptius), three Spurwing Geese (Plectropterus rueppelli), three Ruffs 

 (Pavoncella pugnax), two African Green Parrots {Palceornis docilis), two 

 Brown-necked Ravens (Corvus umbrinus), one Glossy Starling (Lam- 

 protornis porphyropiterus), one Blue-naped Coly (Colius macrurus), one 

 Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), three Long-tailed Doves (QSna capensis), 

 two Red-backed Sparrows (Passer rufidor satis), nine Yellow Sparrows 

 (P. luteus), nine Indigo Finches (Hypochcera ultramarina), four Bishop 

 Finches (Pyromelana franciscana), ten Fire Finches (Lagonostricta 

 brunneicepis) , one Weaver-Bird (Ryjohantornis tcmiopterus), three Weaver- 

 Birds (Hyphantornis sp. ?), six Crocodiles (Crocodilus niloticus), two 

 Nile Turtles (Trionyx triitnguis), three Terrapins (Sternotharus adansoni), 

 two Leopard Tortoises (Testudo pardalis), one Waran Lizard (Varanus 

 ocellatus). Total, one hundred and twenty-nine animals (i.e., fifty 

 mammals, sixty-five birds, and fourteen reptiles). 



