220 Zoology. 



Lot 37. Strix stridula, Tawny Owl, egg and young ones. 

 Purchased by Leach for 7s. 



Lot 38. Strix nebulosa, Barred Owl. Purchased by Dr. Leach 

 for £2. 



AY hat bird this could have been I have been unable to 

 determine. It was not the true Strix nebulosa, as in 1875, when 

 I published the second volume of the " Catalogue of Birds," the 

 Museum only possessed one specimen of this species, presented 

 by Lord Odo Russell (cf. Cat. B., ii., p, 258, 1875). Bullock's 

 specimen may have been S. lapponicum, spec. a. (cf. Sharpe, i.e., 

 p. 255). 



Lot 52. A nondescript Cuckoo, perfectly white, less than half 

 the size of the common ; taken in Cornwall, and sent to Sir 

 Joseph Banks ; the only one known. Bought by Mr. Sabine for 

 3 guineas (the Museum copy says by Dr. Leach). 



Lot 58. Merops Apiaster, Bee-eater ; very rare. Bought by 

 Col. Bullock for 14s. 



Lot 66. Turdus roseus, Rose-coloured Thrush (female), taken 

 in the Orkneys, 1818; extremely rare. A MS. note states that 

 it was killed in the garden of the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, Isle of 

 Hoy. Lord Stanley bought the specimen for 3 guineas. 



Lot 67. Turdus roseus, Rose-coloured Thrush (male) ; very 

 line. Bought by Sir Thomas Ackland for <£5 6s. A MS. note 

 states that it " flew against the light House of Isle of Sanda and 

 was killed. Sent to Mr. B[ullock] by Mr. Strong." 



In the Museum copy this specimen is said to have been 

 bought by Dr. Leach, but there is no example recorded by G. R. 

 Gray as being in the British Museum in 1863. 



Lot 102. Little Bustard, Otis tetrax (male) ; extremely rare. 

 Purchased by Dr. Leach for the British Museum for .£10. This 

 is spec, b of Gray's "Catalogue of British Birds" (p. 134), 

 recorded as from " Norfolk," from Mr. Bullock's Museum. In 

 our official copy I find that I have a MS. note from the Rev. 

 O. Pickard-Cambridge to the effect that this individual was 

 killed by the Rev. G. Pickard-Cambridge, at Walmwell, Dorset- 

 shire. This locality is given by me in the " Catalogue of Birds " 

 (vol. xxiii., p. 290). Professor Newton has added a note to his 

 copy of Bullock's Sale-Catalogue : " The Rev. O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, says (in litt., Nov. 2, 1877), that his father sent 

 Bullock a female Little Bustard killed at Walmwell in Dorset in 

 the late autumn or beginning of winter about or before 1818." 

 This was probably the female (Lot 103) which was bought for 

 8 guineas by Mr. Brooks, at whose sale, according to Professor 



