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an adult) is a fine species, and the best addition to the Raptorial 
collection for some time. 
“Another specimen of L. plumbea subsequently sent from Ecuador 
to Mr. Rosenberg showed some immaturity, the thighs and flanks 
being conspicuously barred with white, and the belly and lower 
breast less so ; it had been killed in May and was marked a male, 
and I am much obliged to him for sending it for inspection.” 
“ A female Spiloglaux ( Nirwx ) ocellata (H. and J.) from Cook 
Town, Queensland, labelled ‘20. vi. 97,’ presented by Mr. Reeve, 
with some other birds, not raptorial, a smaller and more rufous 
species than the common Australian S. boobook, is the only Owl 
for the year. Several Owls of this family have been added to the 
Museum since the printing of the Raptorial catalogue in 1894, 
but there are still some desiderata, e.g., S. rosseliana , which is 
much smaller than S', boobook, and S. albarid, inhabiting a single 
island on the east coast of Australia, and Ninox obsnira from the 
Andamans, figured in ‘The Ibis ’ (1874, p. 129), by Lord Walden.” 
Dr. Charles Hose, whose liberal contributions from Borneo, New 
Guinea, and Celebes, we have so often acknowledged with gratitude, 
has further enriched the general collection of birds by the gift of 
eighty-four skins of choice species from the above localities ; and 
Mr. George H. Raw has presented us with thirty-three skins, 
including twenty-four species of birds from Natal. Mr. Reeve’s 
gift of Spiloglaux ocellata has already been mentioned, and we are 
also indebted to him for examples of Mgzomela obscura and 
Graucalus melanops from Queensland. The Zoological Society has 
also been good enough to send us a specimen of the South American 
Rufous Tinamou ( Rhi/nchotis rufescens). These constitute the 
principal additions to the Ornithological collections. 
An interesting fish known as the Black Fish ( Centrolophus 
pompihts), the first specimen which has been met with on the 
Norfolk coast, taken on Palling beach in March, 1898, has been 
kindly presented by the Rev. A. Gar way Atkins. 
Numerous additions have been made to the Mineralogical 
Collection, now in course of arrangement, and about 250 species of 
Miocene shells from Touraine, France, have been purchased. 
Mr. Gurney 1ms presented a cast of the skull and mandible of the 
remarkable gigantic extinct bird, Phororliacos longissimus , from the 
Tertiary deposits of Santa Cruz, Patagonia. 
