172 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
(including the collection made by Mr. Bandall Johnson) belonging 
to his late father, and formerly kept at Corton. This has been 
incorporated with the “ Gunn ” and other collections, and the whole 
forms a display, probably unequalled in any provincial museum. 
Several other additions have been made in this room, which it is 
hoped will not only render it more attractive in appearance, but 
will be found possessed of educational value, and prove instructive 
to visitors and students by showing the relatively gigantic size of 
some of the extinct animals, whose remains are contained in the 
cases, as compared with their representatives now living. The chief 
of these are the heads of a recent African Elephant, and of 
a European Elk, with a large diagram of the skeleton of the extinct 
Elephas meridionalis , and full-sized drawings of the bones of the 
fore-leg of this and of a recent African Elephant. 
To our valued friend Dr. Charles Hose we are indebted for a fine 
adult specimen of the Orang Utan (Santa satyrus), and a Muller’s 
Gibbon ( Hylnbates miilleri ) from Borneo, and to Mr. T. 0. Springfield 
for an immature and two adult Wild Cats ( Fehs catas), the former 
from Inverness and the latter from Boss-shire. 
It becomes more and more difficult to add new species to the 
collection of Baptorial Birds, but Mr. Gurney lets no opportunity 
pass of securing desiderata in any form ; in the past year he has 
only been successful in obtaining one new species, but that is of 
considerable interest. He has been good enough to send me the 
following notes with regard to the Birds of Prey : — 
“Of the four well marked species in the Neotropical genus, 
Lencopternis , which were desiderata at the time of my father’s 
death, it will be remembered that we obtained one, L. semipUnnbeu, 
some eight years ago, and so seldom are these birds brought to 
this country that it is only now through the instrumentality of 
Mr. Bosenberg, the natural history agent in London, that we have 
secured another species. This is the handsome L. plumbea of Ecuador 
and Panama, and the voucher on the ticket is ‘ Bio verde, Ecuador, 
3200 feet, 28th November, 1899, male, iris dark red, feet orange, 
bill dark bluish grey.’ 
“The thighs in this skin are not nearly so white as in the plate 
accompanying Mr. Salvin’s revision of this genus (‘ The Ibis,’ 1872, 
p. 239), but in other respects it agrees well, except that the eyes in 
the plate are of the wrong colour. This L. plumbea (ours is evidently 
