Birds. 413 



ruitn's, Baza madagascariensis, Astur htog<uter t A. mttdUri, .1 

 rko dog aster, Spizaetus gurneyi, Ninox ochracea. 



When I was writing the fourth volume of the "Catalogue," i 

 went over to Leyden, and effected a similar exchange with 

 Bchlegel, obtaining for our Museum many Bpecies of Flycatcher! 

 ire did not before possesfi — Poxilodryas brachyuriu, Qtrygx 

 thorax, G. notata, (/. magnirostris, G. flaveola, Pristorhamphut 

 Oryptolopka grammiceps, Todopsis bonapartei, '/'. coronata, '/ 

 kordensis, Piezorhynchus diadematus, Anthipes solitaries Erythromyiat 

 mulleri, Pachycephala obiensis, Rhipidura obieruis. 



In 1883 Professor Schlegel also gave me the following 

 for the succeeding volumes of the "Catalogue": Hirundo 



vm /uaforense, D. keiense, Napothera pyrrhopU ni, ZosU rops rujb 

 Z. uropygial%s t Stachyridopsis melanothorax, ana Twrdinus ItpidopL 

 Some of these species are not included in the tenth volume, 

 Appeared in July 1883, as I had not been able to visit Leyden for the 

 purpose of checking my MSS. In October of that year, how 

 able to get away, and found that there were many omissions . 

 volume, which I rectified in a paper on Timdiidm, published in the 

 " Notes from the Leyden Museum " (vol. vi., pp. L67-178 



The last donations, in 1888, consisted of five specimens, of * 

 Pericrocotus lansbergi, Lamprolia minor, Ohhropsis venusta, and 

 pUer Mttikoferi were new to the collection; and a specimen of Ori 



aXbocristatus from Liberia, which has since become the type 

 Orthohphusfinsclii (" Ibis," 1904, p. G10). 



Lidth de Jeude (Dr.). 



See Warwick. 



Lilford (Lord). 



3 specimens of the Spanish Green Woodpecker (Qecin us short* I 

 S. Spain. Presented. [72. 7. 9, 1-3.] 



This species was named by Mr. Howard Saunders (I'./.S., L872, 

 p. 153). In 1894 the late Prof. V. L. Seoane re-described this W 

 pecker as Gecinus viridis galicieruis, in a pamphlet to which b St 

 the date of 1870. This was the most bare-faced attempt to 

 priority of a name given twenty-two years too late, which hat 

 under the notice of the writer (c/. Zool. Rec, 1894, Avee, p. - . 



31 specimens of Herons, Spoonbills, etc., collected by 

 Seville. Presented. [74. 11. 18, 3-33.] 



A specimen of Sylvia melanothorax, Tristr., from Cyprus, new I 

 collection. Presented. [To. 7. 0, 1.] 



Parent birds with nest and eggs of the Flaming. » | 

 ») from Southern Spain. Presented, [so.' 

 mens mounted in the public gallery, and form groui 



234 specimens from Cyprus and the countries of the Ifeditem 

 Presented. [88. 7. 26, 1-205 ; 88. 8. 16, 1 \~ .1-11. j 



This collection <>t' birds was formed by Lord Lilford i.. 

 Mr. W. Pearce, and more particularly by Dr. Q-uilla 

 written an excellent essay on the bird 

 PP. 94-124, pi. ii. ; L889, pp. 206 219), and Lord 1. 

 published an interesting memoir on the ornithol 

 L889, pp. 305-350). 



17 Starlings (StumiU vulgaris) from Lilford. 

 -, 1-17. J 



