268 Zoology. 



6 birds from New Ireland, including the types of three new 

 species, collected by Dr. Otto Finsch. 



37 birds from S. Manchuria. Presented by Sir Evan James. 



1 7 birds from the Congo, collected by Mr. F. Bohndorff. 



342 birds from Equatorial Africa. Presented by Emin Pasha. 



5 birds from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, collected during 

 the voyage of the Flying Fish. Presented by the Lords of the 

 Admiralty. 



GO birds from the Caucasus and other parts of the Russian 

 Empire. Received in exchange from the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, St. Petersburg. 



•~)39 Cuckoos and 36 Petrels from various localities, including 

 the type of Cymocliorea monorhis. Presented by Henry Seebohm, 

 Esq. 



25 birds from the Sudan. Presented by Colonel Willughby 

 Yerner. 



183 birds from East Africa, including the types of Ploceus 

 jacksoni, Sylviella minima, and Campothera pallida. Presented by 

 P. J. Jackson, Esq., C.B., C.M.G. 



3335 specimens of American Corvidse, Truchilidse, and Acci- 

 pilres, being the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth instalments 

 of their Neotropical collection. Presented by Osbert Salvin, Esq., 

 F.R.S., and Dr. Du Cane Godinan, F.R.S. 



1888. 



Specimens presented, 20,392; purchased, 1986; received in 

 exchange, 30. Total, 22,408. 



Special mention may be made of the following accessions :— 



1718 specimens of Tyrannidse, Cotingidse, and Pipridse, including 

 no less than 117 types of species, being the tenth instalment of 

 the Sclater collection. 



44 birds from East Africa. Presented by F. J. Jackson, Esq., 

 C.B., C.M.G. 



57 birds from the island of Guadalcanal Solomon Archipelago, 

 including the types of 13 new species. Collected by C. M. 

 Woodford, Esq. 



68 birds from Guadalcanal'. Presented by C. M. Woodford, 

 Esq. 



5408 specimens of Tyrannidse, Pipridse, Cotingidee, Strigcs, 

 Pic arise, etc., being the seventeenth to twenty-ninth instalments 

 of their Neotropical collection. Presented by Osbert Salvin, Esq., 

 F.R.S., and Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S. 



