108 MR. F. LENEY OX ADDITIONS TO NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
extinct American Bison ( Bison americanus) from Wyoming. 
The head is that of a grand old bull, and Mr. Lydekker con- 
siders it to be of the typical prairie race. This specimen is 
admirably mounted by Rowland Ward, from whom it was 
purchased by the Castle-Museum Committee. The United 
States National Museum also presented a weathered skull of 
the Bison from Montana, U.S.A., which has been placed with 
the Osteological collection. 
Other additions to the animals are a Wild Cat ( Felis calus), 
trapped in Invernesshire, in 1903, and presented by Mr. A. 
Heneage Cocks ; a Garden Dormouse ( Myoxus guercinus) from 
Wimereux, Boulogne, presented by Mr. E. P. Larken, through 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, and a pale variety of the Mole ( Talpa 
europcea), taken at Shimpling, Norfolk, by the Rev. J. W. 
Millard. 
To Engineer Lieut. R. W. Skelton, R.N., of the “ Discovery,” 
are due the thanks of all Norfolk Naturalists for his generous 
donation to the Museum of a collection of birds obtained by 
him during the time the “ Discovery ” was in the Antarctic 
regions. Included in Lieut. Skelton’s gift is an adult female 
specimen of the Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri), and 
a “ chick ” from the “ rookery,” discovered by the donor on 
sea-ice near Cape Crozier, Victoria Land ; the only rookery 
so far discovered. The other skins are those of the King 
Penguin (A. patagonica ) / Adelia Penguin ( Pygoscelis adelice) ; 
Snowy Petrel ( Pagadroma nivea) ; Cinereous Petrel ( Priofinus 
cinereus) ; Silver Grey Petrel ( Priocella glacialoides) ; 
Antarctic Petrel ( Thalassceca antarclica) ; Antarctic Skua 
( Megalestris antarclica) ; and a Black eye-browed Albatros 
( Diomedea melanophrys). 
Other interesting additions to the birds are a White Heron 
(Herodias egretta ) from Brazil, presented by Mrs. Hancox ; 
a Giant Crane, or “Native Companion” ( Antigone australasiana) 
from Australia, by Mr. Harold Wilson ; Jungle Fowl, or Wild 
Cock ( Callus sonnerati ) from India, by Sir William Lee-Warner; 
a collection of thirty birds from Natal, obtained for the late 
Dr. R. J. Mann when in the colony, presented by Mrs. Mann ; 
and nestlings of Nightjar (Caprimulgus europams), from 
