572 MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
specimens were given by Mr. Edward North Buxton, and form 
a noticeable exhibit in the animal room. Mr. Geoffrey Fowell 
Buxton presented a fine head of a Norfolk Ram ( Ovis aries ), 
and Sir Reginald Beauchamp a buff variety of Hedgehog ( Erinaceus 
europceus ) taken in Langley Park, Norfolk. Skeletons of Man 
and Horse have been mounted after the group shown in the 
Natural History Museum in London. The skeletons were the 
gift of Mr. A. H. Santy. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney added to the collection of Raptorial Birds 
specimens of Leucopternis plumbea and Tinnunculus sparverius ; 
he has kindly sent me the following note on L. plumbea. “ An 
adult female of Leucopternis plumbea , Salv. marked ‘ Rio Bogota, 
N. Ecuador, January, 1901,’ makes a good pair to the male already 
recorded, Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. vii. p. 172. 
This species was described by the late Mr. O. Salvin in 1872, and 
has long remained a very rare bird in collections ; there appears to 
be no difference in sex.” 
Also eighteen birds’ skins from South Africa collected by the 
late Mr. Thomas Ayres, and a White-headed Living Duck (J?zas 
mersa ) from Lenkoran. The Hon. G. Lascelles presented a female 
specimen of Amherst’s Pheasant ( Chrysolophus amlierstice) which 
had assumed the plumage of the male, and the Rev. T. C. Hose 
gave a Tabuan Parrakeet ( Pyrrhulopis tabuensis) from Fiji Islands. 
Colonel Irby presented two cabinets of British Moths, one with 
twenty-eight drawers containing the Nocturni, Cuspidates, and 
Noctuas; the other, with twenty drawers, containing Geometers. 
Mr. Frederick Ringer of Nagasaki presented a specimen of the 
beautiful Glass Rope Sponge ( Eupledella oweni) enclosing some 
small Crustaceans ( Spongicn/a venusta), and Mr. John Morgan of 
Worthing added twelve species to the collection of Corals. 
To the geological collection, Mr. G. W. Colenutt contributed 
some small fossil fishes ( Glupea vectensis ) from Eocene deposits in 
the Isle of Wight. Mr. T. Fowell Buxton presented the iliac 
portion of a huge pelvis of Elephas meridionalis from the “Forest- 
Bed ” at Overstrand, near Cromer. This bone was discovered by 
some fishermen at the base of the cliff after a high tide on the 14th 
of October, 1902. 
The general interest in the Museum has been well maintained, as 
is evidenced by the fact that 118,697 visitors passed through the 
turnstiles as against 109,249 in 1901. 
