MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 
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and as it is the only one with which Mr. AVills has met, must be 
either very raro or very local. 
Scops xibutuensi#, recently described by Dr. Sharpe from two 
skins collected in the Philippines, the co-type of which we have 
acquired, is extremely close to S. eleyans, an example of which was 
presented to the Museum two years ago by Mr. Seebohm. We 
have also received two specimens of the British Osprey, from New 
Guinea, valuable for locality; and a very dark brown IJmnaiitus 
(jumeyi, apparently adult, of which species we had only immature 
examples; and to Mr. D. L. Thorpe we are indebted for a nestling 
of Archilmteo ferruyineua, from Assinaboia, N. America. 
Lord Hastings has contributed eighty-seven species of British 
Birds; unfortunately the localities of the bulk of these are unknown, 
but there are a number of specimens of very great interest, such 
as Huffs, Black-tailed Godwite, Avocets, Woodcocks, with three 
nestlings of the latter taken at Melton Constable, all of which 
were killed in this county, during their breeding season, as shown 
by the dates marked inside the cases. There are also excellent 
specimens of the following species, some of which have Norfolk 
localities indicated; viz., Night Heron, Bittern, Spoonbill, White- 
tailed and Golden Eagles, Kite, Peregrine Falcon, Harriers, 
Goshawk, Nutcrackers, Stone Curlew, Dotterel, Little King Plover, 
Wood Sandpiper, Great Snipe, Whooper, Bewick’s Swan, Long- 
tailed Duck, Smew, Black Guillemot, Iceland and Glaucous Gulls, 
and some very beautiful albinoes and varieties. We are also 
indebted to Colonel Feilden for a lovely specimen of Sabine’s Gull, 
from York Factory, Hudson’s Bay; to Mr. Bazett Haggard for skins 
of the Dirfanrnlus, and other birds from Samoa; to Mr. Whitaker for 
a pair of Black Terns, killed at Blakeney, and to Messrs. Mackley 
Brothers for a cross between a male Bullfinch and a female Common 
Linnet, produced in their famous song-bird breeding establishment. 
But the most interesting addition to the collection of British Birds 
is a female Great Bustard, the companion bird to the male which 
was acquired by the Museum last year, and to which I alluded in 
my notes for 1892, as then in the possession of a lady in London. 
The history of this bird is fully set forth in the third volume of 
the ‘Birds of Norfolk,’ p. 401, up to the date of the publication 
of that work, it is therefore only necessary to add that after the 
death of the widow of the late Dr. Beverley B. Morris it passed 
