722 MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
XVI. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1903. 
By Frank Leney, 
Assistant-Curator of Norwich Museum. 
Read 29th March, 1904. 
The additions to the collection of Mammalia include male and 
female specimens of de Win ton’s Field Mouse (Mus sylvaticus- 
wintoni ) from Tostock, Suffolk, presented by the Rev. J. G. Tuck, 
and a variety of the Weasel ( Mustela vulgaris, Linn.) from 
Boyland Hall, given by Colonel Irby. To the Ornithological 
collection has been added a selection of one hundred and eighty 
skins from the collection which Major Becher, R.A., presented 
through this Society, and Mrs. Pinckney has given the Green-backed 
Gallinule ( Porpliyrio smaragdonotus, Temm.) which was killed 
at Tatterford, in October, 1877, and recorded in our ‘Transactions’ 
for 1877, vol. ii. p. 318. Another valuable addition is the Sabine’s 
Snipe ( Scolopax sabinii , Vigors) shot at Rainham, October 17th, 
1856, and described in Stevenson’s 1 Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. ii. 
p. 343., given by Mr. Francis Nicholas Smith. Five specimens 
have been added to the collection of Birds of Prey, with regard to 
which Mr. J. H. Gurney has kindly supplied the following notes : — 
“ Through the kindness of Mr. P. L. Sclater, late secretary of the 
Zoological Society, the Norwich Museum has been enriched with 
a long-sought for desideratum in a very fair example of Thalas- 
sdetus branicldi, Tacz. : the Black Sea-Eagle of the Corea, a species 
which my father never succeeded in obtaining. This fine Asiatic 
Eagle died in the gardens of the Zoological Society, on March 1st, 
1903, probably from a chill, but it had lived there ten years and 
