460 Zoology. 



Palmeria dolei, Viridonia sagittirostris, Loxops aurea, L. ochracea, 

 Corvus tropicus, Chaseimpis gayi. 



221 birds, nests, eggs, and skeletons from the Islands of Socotra and 

 Abd-el-Kuri, collected by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and Dr. H. 0. Forbes. 

 Presented. [99. 4. 5, 1-51 ; 99. 8. 11, 1-170.] 



The first set of specimens from this celebrated expedition was 

 presented to the British Museum. The types of the following new 

 species were included: — Scops socotranus, Phalocrocorax atrigularis, 

 Caprimulgus jonesi, Fringillaria socotrana, F. insularis, Passer hemi- 

 leucus, Motacilla forwoodi (cf. "The Natural History of Sokotra and 

 Abd-el-Kuri," by W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and H. 0. Forbes, LL.D., Aves, 

 pp. 19-72, pis. iii.-vii.). 



Royal Society, and the Universities of Edinburgh and 

 Liverpool. 



498 birds, nests, and eggs from the Malay Peninsula, collected by 

 W. C. Robinson and N. Annandale. Presented. [1905. 2. 1, 1-498.] 



Rudd (C D.) 



2952 birds, 29 eggs, 2 nests, collected by H. C. B. Grant in Cape 

 Colony, Namaqua Land, Zulu Land, and E. Transvaal. Presented. 

 [1903. 7. 20, 1-72 ; 1903. 10. 14, 1-385 ; 1905. 12. 29, 1-1952.] 



RUppell (Dr. E.). 



57 birds from Abyssinia and Shoa. Purchased. [43. 8. 15, 7-10, 

 12-13 ; 42. 8. 16, 1-36 ; 42. 4. 8, 1-6, 45. 6. 2, 6-15.] 



These were duplicates from Dr. Riippell's great expedition to 

 Abyssinia, and the British Museum, with the officers of which the 

 celebrated traveller was on very friendly terms, profited greatly by these 

 acquisitions. Many species, new to the collection, were added, the 

 specimens being co-types and of the greatest value, among them being 

 the following : — Buteo augur (Riipp.), Schizorhis zonura, Riipp., Centropus 

 monachus, Riipp., Ithinopomastus minor (Riipp.), Sterna affinis, Cretz- 

 schm. [= S. media (cf. Saunders, Cat. B., xxv., p. 86)], Turtur lugens 

 (Riipp.), Pyocephalus meyeri (Riipp.), P. flavifrons (Riipp.), Lamprotornis 

 rufiventris, Riipp. [= Spreo pulclier (P.L.S., Mull.)] (cf. Sharpe, Cat. B., 

 xiii., p. 191), Spreo superbus (Riipp.). Cinnamopterus tenuirostris (Riipp.), 

 Eirundo striolata (Riipp.) [ = H. puella, Temm.] (cf. Sharpe, Cat. B., x., 

 p. 154), H. melanocrissa (Riipp.), Serinus xanthopygius, Riipp., Saxicola 

 isabellina, Cretzschm., Crateropus leucopygius (Riipp.), Parus dorsatus, 

 Riipp. [= P. leuconotus, Guerin] (cf. Gadow, Cat. B., viii., p. 10). 



Russell (Lord Odo). 



29 specimens of North American birds. Presented. [58. 10. 29, 1-29.] 

 Lord Odo Russell was created Baron Ampthill in 1881. He obtained 



some interesting birds when attached to the Legation at Washington. 

 Cf. Diet. Nat. Biogr., xlix., p. 468. 



Sabine (Sir Edward). 



5 birds from various localities. [84. 7. 21, 1-5.] 



Sir Edward Sabine gave many specimens from West Africa in the early 

 part of the nineteenth century, but no register of the donations appears 

 to have been kept. A Bush-Shrike (Chaunonotus sabinei) was named after 

 him by J. E. Gray in the " Zoological Miscellany," i., p. 6. He is best 

 known to English ornithologists by the Fork-tailed Gull (Xema sabinei), 

 the type-specimen of which was presented to the Museum by his executors 

 in 1884. 



