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Lot 99. Pelecanua bassanus, the Soland Goose (18a.). This 

 is stiU in the collection. {Cf. Gray, Cat. lint. B., p. 245 (1863); 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B., xxvi., p. 427.) 



Lot 109. Cape Penguin (31a. 6d). This must be spec, a of 

 Gray's Catalogue of 1844, p. 154, and spec, e of Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant's volume (Cat. B., xxvi., p. 650, 1898). 



The Fourth Day's Sale (May 5, 1819), consisted of " British 

 Land Birds," a number of which were bought by Sir Thomas 

 Ackland. 



Lot 1. Falco Chrysaetus, the Golden Eagle (male), killed in 

 Scotland ; finely preserved in the act of preying on the white 

 hare. This well-known group, which for many years was a con- 

 spicuous object in the British Gallery at Bloomsbury, was 

 purchased by Dr. Leach for 9 guineas. 



Lot 2 (the female) was purchased by Dr. Leach for 4 guineas, 

 as was also 



Lot 3. The young and egg of ditto, the only one known in 

 any collection (3; r, s.). 



Lot 5. A female Sea-Eagle ; killed in the park of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, in Lincolnshire (extent of wing 8 feet 4 in., MS. note) ; 

 was bought by Sir Thomas Ackland for nine guineas. 



Lot 7, a female White-tailed Eagle, was secured by Dr. 

 Leach for £3 8s., and Lot 8, Two young birds taken in " the Isle of 

 Hoy, one of the Orkneys," were also purchased by him for £4 4s. 



Lot 11. Falco fulvus, King-tailed Eagle (male), went to Mr. 

 Sabine for £7 15s. 



Lot 12. The female was bought by Leach for £5 5*. : and 

 Lot 13, Two young of ditto, was also purchased by him for 

 £5 15s. Qd. ; cf. Gray, Cat. Brit. B., pp. 3, 6 (1863). 



Lot 22. F. Lanareus, Lanner (male and female). Bought by 

 Lord Stanley for £2 12s. 



Lot 31. Strix Xyctea, Snowy Owl (male), killed in Britain, 

 was purchased by Leach for the enormous sum of 25 guineas. 

 This bird is no longer in the Museum. 



Lot 32. Another Snowy Owl (killed in Shetland by 

 Mr. Edmonson, MS. note) was likewise bought by Leach for 

 £9 10s. It is still in the Museum; cf. Sharpe, Tat. B., ii.. p. 128. 



Lot 34. Strix bubo, Great-eared Owl. was purchased by 

 Colonel Bullock tor i;:; L0*. 



Lot 36*. Strix dammea, White Owl (male, female, and young) 

 (and tree containing young, MS. note), fetched L5«. Bought by a 

 Mr. Ashmead. 



