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mounted in cases or under glass shades, comprise an adult Crane, 
shot at East Wretham; Black-tail Godwits, summer and autumn 
plumage, iS^orfolk ; ten Itulis, in full summer plumage, Buckenham 
marshes ; Pallas’s Sand Grouse, two males and one female, ^Norfolk, 
18G3; Sabine’s Gull, Breydon, October, 1881, one of the only two 
killed in the county; Squacco Heron, adult, Surlingham, 1863; 
Baillon’s Crake, near King’s Lynn, 1874; adult Rough-legged 
Buzzard, Thetford Warren ; Pectoral Sandpiper, Caister, near 
Yarmouth, 1865 ; and a Broad-billed Sandpiper, Breydon, 1868. 
Also a pure white Blackbird, killed in the county, to which Mr. T. 
Roberts recently added a companion in a pure white Starling, shot 
on Mousehold, September, 1887. The thanks of the Museum 
subscribers are specially due to the following liberal donors — viz., 
the Right Hon. Lord Lilfonl, Sir T. Powell Bu.\ton, J. H. Gurney, 
Esq., J. H. Gurney, Estp, Jun., S. G. Buxton, Esq., Geoffrey P. 
Buxton, E.s([., J. J. Colman, Esq., M.P., Samuel Hoare, Es( p, M.P., 
Henry Birkbeck, Esq., and J. G. Barclay, Es(p, who have enabled 
the institution to become possessed of these intere-sting and 
valuable specimens. 
As usual large additions were made by the President and others 
to the collection of Birds of Prey, I\Ir. Gurney alone contributing 
one hundred and twenty .six specimens, which included four species 
new to the collection. Speaking of these at the annual meeting, 
Mr. Gurney remarked that: “The more perfect the collection 
became, the more dithcult it was to fill up the gaps that remained. 
One was a specimen of the largest Owl known, Pmeuilopfi/vx 
blakLsfoni, from Yesso, Japan. It was named after Captain 
Blakiston, its discoverer. Ever since the period that it was dis- 
covered he had been trying to get a specimen. In the latter part 
of 1886 a pair were sent alive to the Zoological Gardens, and he 
begged the authorities there to send a specimen to the Xorfolk and 
Korwich Museum in the event of any misfortune happening to the 
birds. It happened that the male bird died, and it was sent down 
to the jMuseum. On Tuesday he had a letter from a warm friend 
of the Museum, ^Ir. P. Ringer, of Nagasaki, who promised to 
endeavour to obtain for them a female in the wild state. This Owl 
belonged to a peculiar group of three species. Of the two other 
species they had specimens, and the group was complete. The New 
Guinea Hawk, Urospizias melanochlamys, referred to was a very 
