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tion, and enter the room containing the first portion of 
the 
General Collection of Birds 
these, though acquired more by chance than on any 
particular plan, will be found to include a large number 
of the most remarkable types, as the Museum has been 
fortunate in times past in receiving many contribu- 
tions of importance and interest, among these may be 
especially named those of Captains Glasspoole and 
Owen Stanley—the last while commanding H.M.S. 
Sulphur, which was long engaged in exploring the 
Australasian Seas—Mr. J. S. Chapman, formerly staff- 
surgeon to the Forces in India, Sir John Boileau, the 
feet. §. Hf. Gurney,_and’ recently from Lord 
Hastings. 
Case |. 
commences with the family Corvip2, the Crows, a very 
numerous one, and of wide geographical range. ‘The 
Raven, Black and Grey Crows, Rook and Jackdaw, are 
well-known British rep ‘esentatives of this family. But 
here will be seen the eastern Corvus splendens of India, 
and C. macrorhynchus from the Andaman Islands ; 
the White-eyed Crows, C. australis, from Port Curtis ; 
and the large-billed white-necked Corvultur from 
South Africa. Here too belong the Nutcrackers, 
of which several species inhabit the mountain forests 
of Europe and Asia, while one occasionally visits Eng- 
land. ‘Then follow the Magpies and Jays, though it 
is hard to separate one or the other in some of the 
tropical forms, such as the long-tailed crested Calocitta 
formosa of Mexico. ‘These are often of great beauty, 
as for instance the Red-billed Blue Magpie of the 
Himalayas, Uvocissa erythrorhyncha. The Blue- 
