Birds. 273 



263 specimens from Central Chili and Tarapaca, including 



many species new to the collection, among them the rare Avocet 

 of the Andes (Recnrri rostra andina). Presented by H. Berkeley 

 James, Esq. 



34 nests and eggs from Barbados. Presented by Colonel \V. 

 H. Feilden, C.B. 



65 Arctic and Antarctic birds. Bequeathed by the late Dr. 

 Robert McCormick. 



501 eggs of Gulls and Terns (Laridse). Presented by Howard 

 Saunders, Esq. This was a very valuable present, the donor being 

 our greatest authority on the Laridse, which family he described in 

 the twenty-fifth volume of the "Catalogue of Birds." 



The first instalment of his collection of bird's eggs, comprising 

 5017 examples. Presented by H. Seebohm, Esq. 



In this year Mr. Seebohm commenced the arrangement of 

 the Museum series of eggs in cabinets. 



4787 specimens of American birds, being the forty-sixth to 

 fifty-sixth instalments of the Salvin-Godmaii collection. Presented 

 by Dr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, Esq., F. 1 ( . S. 



451 specimens of African Galli formes (Game-birds), Ralli- 

 formes (Rails), and Charadriiformes (Plovers, etc.), being the 

 twentieth to the twenty-second instalments of the Shelley 

 collection. 



1892. 



Specimens presented, 10,024; purchased, 1013; received in 

 exchange, 119. Total, 11,156. 



4013 eggs and specimens of Charadriiformes (Wading Birds), 

 Lariformes (Gulls and Terns), Balliformes (Rails). Presented by 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq. 



4534 specimens, being the fifty-sixth to sixty -sixth instalments 

 of their collection of Neotropical birds. Presented by Dr. F. Du 

 Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin, Esq. 



A pair of Newton's Gardener Bower-bird (Prionodura //< wtoni- 

 ana). Presented by the Queensland Museum. 



1042 birds from Central Chili and Tarapaca. Presented by 

 H. Berkeley James, Esq. 



19 birds and eggs from the River Gambia. Presented by Dp, 

 Kendall. 



16 birds from the island of Engafio, collected by Mr. Modi- 

 gliani. 



98 birds from Eastern Prussia and other parts of Germany. 

 Received in exchange from Dr. E. llartcrt. 



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