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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
specimens of a very rare Ceylon Owl [Phothlux which 
for some years they had been endeavouring to get. It was a 
remarkable genus, consisting of three species only. The ^Museum 
hitherto possessed two, but, thanks to Mr. Bligh’s good offices, 
they had now the three complete. They had a rare Hawk from 
the interior of Venezuela [Micrastur zonothorax), which Avas sent 
to him by a correspondent in Paris, and of which he Jiad never 
seen but the one specimen in the British Museum. Mr. Wills, 
a missionary in Madagascar, had sent them two species new from 
that island, one, a very rare Goshawk {A4ur hensH), and the other 
an Owl {Phasmoptijnx major) of the larger race of the short eared 
Owl of South Africa; and Mr. Whitehead, who had lately returned 
from a remarkable journey in the East, had supplied them with 
two newly- discovered species of Owl, one {Ali/rtha wiepkeui) a fine 
species from the island of Palawan, north of Borneo, and the other 
a beautiful little Owl {Heieroscops luci(t) discovered by himself on 
the lofty and almost inaccessible mountain of Kina Balu, in 
Northern Borneo. 
!Many objects of interest have been added to the various other 
departments. 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Eed-bbeasted Flycatcher at Scilly. — With reference to the 
Eed-breasted Flycatcher {Musdcapa parva) killed on the islands of 
Scilly (vol. iv. p. 454), an important corroboration of its authenticity 
comes to hand from Mr. Thomas Cornish, the friend and partner 
of the late Mr. E. II. Eodd, with Avhom he was intimate for many 
years. He Avrites, August 6th, 1888: “Dear old Vingoe is dead, 
and your prognostication that Ave should have trouble in recovering 
our specimens Avith him has proved itself correct. You are all right 
in the specimen of the Eed-breasted Flycatcher; I had several long 
talks Avith him about it. Having knoAvn avcU Smith the gamekeeper 
