Birds. 251 



1852. 



307 specimens presented ; U9 purchased. Total. 726. 



1 l~> eggs, presented by II. P. Walter, Esq. 



100 birds from New Zealand. Presented by Captain Stokes, 



a.N. 



29 birds from Damara Land, collected by C. J. Andersson. 



1853. 



L58 specimens presented ; 488 purchased. Total, 646. 

 104 birds from Bagdad. Presented by Kenneth Loftus, Esq. 

 55 Summing Birds, and 80 Toucans. Purchased of Mr. 

 Gould. 



1854. 



84 specimens presented ; 540 purchased. Total, 62 I. 

 127 specimens from Bogota. Purchased of Mr. Samuel 

 Stevens. 



1855. 



150 specimens presented; 742 purchased. Total, 892. 



403 birds from various localities. Purchased from the 

 Zoological Society. 



On the determination of the Zoological Society to give up its 

 Museum, the first choice of acquiring the specimens was ottered 

 to the British Museum, which thus regained the typical examples 

 described from the voyage of the Beagle and other exploring 

 vessels, the collections of which should by rights have gone into 

 the national museum. A few seem to have been overlooked 

 l»y Mr. (t. R. Gray and passed into the hands of private 

 collectors, but within the past few years some of these have 

 likewise been regained by the Museum, on the death of tin* 

 owners, whose collections have been dispersed. 



1855. 



101 birds from South America. Purchased <»f Mr. J. Gould. 

 88 birds from N.W. America. Presented by Captain Collin- 

 son, K.N. (H.M.SS. Enterprise and Endeavour). 



1856. 



.'» 11) birds presented ; 160 purchased. Total. 129. 

 36 birds from Teheran, Persia, collected by the Hon. 

 C. Murray. Presented by Charles Darwin, Esq. 



