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Ntt. T. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE 
and presented to the Museum by the writer : this is the only 
authentic Norfolk specimen known. Nor a very good example of 
the now rare Grey Lag Goose, killed on Urey don in 18S6, we are 
indebted to Colonel Feilden ; and for a male and female of the 
Common Crossbill ( Loxia curvirostra), shot at Blofield in 1862, 
the Museum is indebted to Mr. W. Id. Tuck. Dr. Hills has 
presented two examples of a very pretty isabelline variety of the 
Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio), both killed at one shot at 
Thorpe in 1869. 
To the birds of prey Mr. J. H. Gurney has, as usual, been 
the means, both directly and indirectly, of obtaining a large 
number of additional specimens, including four species new to the 
collection. These are Buteo solitanus, from the island of Hawaii, a 
Buzzard of very great rarity, which has long been a desideratum 
in our collection, but which now, thanks to Mr. Charles and 
Sir Thomas Lucas and Mr. Gurney, is represented by three 
specimens in distinct states of plumage — an adult and immature 
male and a melanistic variety. The other new species are JEsalon 
suckleyi from Chilliwach, British Columbia, obtained in exchange; 
Baza gurneyi from Russell Island, in the Solomon Group, presented 
by Mr. Gurney ; and Bubo abyssinicus, from Jeddah, a scarce 
Horned Owl, inhabiting Abyssinia and Arabia, which was recently 
figured in the ‘Ibis’ (1886, pi. 6) under the name of Bubo milesi. 
This last was obtained in exchange. In addition to these the 
collection has been enriched by sixty-three specimens (some of 
them handsomely mounted), including thirty species, all the gift 
of the President, Mr. Gurney. 
A collection of fifty-seven specimens, some of great interest, and 
all in excellent condition, collected in the Andaman Islands specially 
for our Museum, has been presented by Frank Patteson, Esq., 
of Calcutta. 
The Museum is indebted to the liberality of Henry Seebohm, Esq., 
for the gift of a specimen of Buteo plumipes from Peel Island, 
one of the Bonin group in the North Pacific Ocean, a new and 
interesting locality for this widely-spread species; and to Sir John 
B. Lawes, Bart., for a specimen of Metatarsus leuconotus, which 
lived for about fifteen years in the aviary of the late Edward 
Fountaine, Esq., of Easton, and is valuable to the collection, 
not only as a desirable addition, but also as a remembrance of 
