408 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON AUDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 
X. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH 
MUSEUM IN THE YEAR 1892. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Vice-President. 
(Hon. Curator — V ertebrata.) 
• Read 28th February , lS93. t 
It is not often that we have to record any addition to the small 
collection of local Mammalia which our Museum contains, but 
during the past year we have acquired, by purchase, a specimen of 
considerable interest, which has been exhibited for some years 
only as a loan. It was not till December, 1881, that I was 
enabled to speak positively of the Grey Seal ( HaHcluerus gryphus) 
as a Norfolk animal, although it was strongly suspected to occur 
occasionally in the Wash ; the question was at that time finally set 
at rest by the occurrence of an old female and its young one in the 
locality just mentioned. In November, 1882, a young female was 
killed on Breydon, and passed into the possession of Mr. W. W. 
Spelman, and it is this specimen which we have recently purchased, 
its skull being already in our collection. The Osteological collection 
has also received the cranium of an adult Grey Seal, killed at 
Wells in February, 1892, and presented by Colonel Feilden. 
As usual, the Museum is greatly indebted to Mr. J. II. Gurney 
for additions to the collection of Birds of prey. Through his 
influence the Zoological Society of London sent the Museum an 
adult female of the Pagoda Owl, Myrtlia setopufo ( Syrnium 
sinense (Lath.),) received by them from Penang, Malay Peninsula, 
and which died in the Gardens. This being a fresh specimen has 
mounted well. It is the only Owl which has been added to the 
collection of Striges. 
From a box of Accipitres, sent him by Mr. H. Whitely, the 
well-known dealer, a skin of Urubitinya zunura (Shaw), differing 
in its plumage from any in the Museum, was selected by 
