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NORTH OF ENGLAND SPECIMENS 

 IN THE BRITISH COLLECTION AT THE 

 BRITISH MUSEUM. 



T. D. A. COCKERELL, M.C.S., 

 JVc'si Cliff, Custer County, Colorado, U.S.A. 



For many years, since they were removed from their old quarters in 

 Bloomsbury, the specimens illustrating the fauna of these islands 

 have been inaccessible to the public gaze, and it was not until a short 

 time ago that the British room was opened, and the now much- 

 improved collections made visible. On one of my visits I went 

 carefully through the entire collection, and noted all the north-country 

 specimens, thinking that it might interest the northern naturalists to 

 know how they were represented in the Museum. T use the Museum 

 nomenclature throughout, any other being indicated in square 

 brackets. MAMMALIA. 



There is the well-known tail-less cat from the Isle of Man, a fine 

 specimen, and a Halichoerus grypJms from the Fame Islands (P. J. 



BIRDS. 



Anser brackyrhyiic/ms, Lanes. 



Bernicla leucopsis and B. cana- 

 densis, Cumberland. 



FalcG cesalon, Lanes., and a 

 young one from Derbyshire. 



Coracias garnda, York. 



Merula torquata., Yorks. 



Pagophila ebwiiea., Yorks. 



Tringa ca7itttus and 

 Philoviachus ptignax, Lines. 

 Sterna cantiaca, Farne Islands. 

 Tringa siibarquata, Lytham, 

 Lanes. 



Himantopus Candidas, Lines. 

 Tctrao tefrix, Wallington, New- 

 castle. 



Salnw, hybrid between Com- 

 mon River Trout and Sea Trout, 

 Sol way. 



FISHES. 



Salnio salar (male), length Brama rati, Berwick. 

 46 inches, weight 46 lbs.. River 

 Tweed, July. 



Myliobatis aquila, Berwick-on- 



Tweed (Yarrell Coll.). 



MOLLUSCA. 



These are very nicely mounted on black pai)er in glass-topped 

 boxes. The collection is fairly complete, but one cannot help 

 regretting much the absence of Dr. Jeffreys' collection, which the 

 authorities refused, and which was subsequently purchased by the 

 Museum at Washington for ^50 more than the sum refused by 

 the British Museum, though the collection was essentially a British 

 one, and contained the types of very many British sj^ecies and 

 varieties. Most of the north-country specimens are from \onhum- 

 berland, Sunderland, and Scarborough. 



Aug. 1888. 



