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all the information I could obtain. Allusion is made in ' The Zoolo- 

 gist,' 1897, pp. 270, 271, by Mr. W. Euskin-Butterfield, Curator of 

 the Hastings Corporation Museum, to the specimen belonging to 

 Dr. Otho Travers, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, shot by his father, 

 Mr. O. W. Travers, it is believed at Mildenhall, in Suffolk, between 

 the years 1830-40 ; and Mr. G. W. Bradshaw, in the same volume 

 of 'The Zoologist,' p. 270, states that "this specimen was restored 

 by Mr. Bristow, of St. Leonards, and that Mr. Travers, who shot it, 

 told him it was eating a Partridge at the time." The late Mr. 

 Howard Saunders, however, would not include the species in his 

 ' Manual of British Birds,' and in his second edition, p. 338, he writes 

 that " An example of the American Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides 

 furcatus) was taken alive during a heavy thunderstorm near Hawes, 

 in Yorkshire, on Sept. 6th, 1805, but afterwards made its escape, and 

 there is ground for suspecting that it had previously been in confine- 

 ment. There are other records of the occurrence in Great Britain of 

 this chiefly Neo-tropical species, but none of these are, to my mind, 

 satisfactory, and the species has never occurred on the Continent." — 

 Thomas Paekin. 



PEBSONALIA. 



Presentation to Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, I.S.0. — On June 30th 

 Mr. Charles Owen Waterhouse, I.S.O., Assistant Keeper of Zoology 

 in the British Museum (Natural History), severed his official connec- 

 tion with the Museum, and the opportunity was taken of presenting 

 him with an illuminated address, signed by numerous members of 

 the Staff and others, including Dr. A. G. Butler ; he was also the 

 recipient of a desk, a barometer, and a gold watch. The presentation 

 was made by Mr. L. Fletcher, Director of the Museum, who, in the 

 course of a short speech, pointed out that Mr. Waterhouse was 

 retiring from the service of the Trustees after a period of forty-four 

 years, a period of service only exceeded by one member of the Staff 

 of five hundred employed in the British Museum. Eeference was 

 also made to the honour lately conferred on Mr. Waterhouse by the 

 King. Mr. Fletcher then read aloud the text of the address before 

 handing it to Mr. Waterhouse and presenting him with the other 

 donations. Mr. Waterhouse, in returning thanks, said how very 

 much he regretted leaving the Museum, where he had spent so many 

 years. He traced the growth of the Insect Eoom from the modest 

 dimensions of the former Insect Room at Bloomsbury to the fine 

 series of rooms at South Kensington to-day, extending along a frontage 

 of some three hundred feet, and hinted that some of those present 



