724 MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
T. branickii named by M. Taczanowski in 1888 (P.Z.S. 1888 p. 451). 
Of this bird which was from the sea of Tartary (1 Kamtschatka), 
and which was known to be three years old, Heude wrote in ‘ Le 
Naturaliste’ (1887, p. 95) : — “ Son plumage n’est pas encore blanc 
pur aux couvertures caudales. Mais les petites couvertures des 
ailes, le front, les tibiales, sauf une ligne int4rieure, et les quatorze 
rectrices sont blanc pur. ... La queue qui n’est pas encore 
blanche, est longue et effilee, toutes les plumes d’ailleurs sont plus 
lanceolees que celles de son voisin [//. pelagians]. II n’a de blanc 
qu’a la queue ; le reste du plumage a toujours ete plus noir que 
brun, et surtout que le brun pale de I’ II. albicitla.” 
“As the Museum only possessed one specimen of Leueopternis 
semi-plumbea, Lawr. procured several years ago (‘ Ibis ’ 1893 p. 340), 
another which has been added during the past year is acceptable. 
It is adult, labelled a male from N. Ecuador, America, April 10th 
1901, received without collector’s name through Mr. Rosenberg, of 
London. L. semiplumbea is probably no longer to be considered 
rare in collections. 
“That successful collector, Mr. A. S. Meek having obtained 
a series of Ninox jacquinoti (Bonaparte) in the Solomon islands, 
an Owl described as long ago as 1850 (Consp. Av. i. p. 42), and 
then for a time lost sight of (cf. 'Ibis’ 1895 p. 374), and not 
represented in the Norwich Museum, I am very glad to fill up the 
blank by presenting a pair of Mr. Meeks’ skins of this Owl, 
shot on Ysabel island, one of the Solomon group. “The Hon. 
Walter Rothschild and Mr. Hartert in describing Mr. Meek’s 
collection of birds in * Novitates Zool. ’ (ix. p. 592), have some 
interesting remarks on N. jacquinoti, which they seem to view as 
a very distinct form, nearest perhaps to N. granti, but a form 
subject to a good deal of variation. This is the only Owl which 
has been added to the Museum collection in 1903.” 
A well mounted specimen of the Common Boa ( Boa constrictor , 
Linn.) has been placed with the Snakes, and a curiously marked 
variety of the Brill ( Rhombus vulgaris, Linn.), also a pale coloured 
Sole ( Solea vulgaris, Flem.) have been added to the series of local 
fishes. 
The Entomological collection has been augmented by a large 
selection from the duplicates in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) 
