MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO NORWICH CASTLE- MUSEUM. IO9 
Harperley, and Gannet ( Sula bassana) from the Bass Rock, 
Mr. W. H. Bidwel). 
The Museum Committee also acquired by purchase, the 
Sooty Tern ( Sterna fuliginosa) which was picked up dead on 
Santon Downham Heath in the early part of April, 1900, by 
Mr. J. Nunn, of Little Lodge Farm, Santon Downham ; 
described by Mr. W. G. Clarke in Trans. X. & N. Nat. Soc., 
vol. vii. (1903), p. 752. 
Mr. J. H. Gurney presented thirteen skins of North 
American Sparrows, including eleven species, and had the rare 
pleasure of adding one new species to the Raptorial Collection 
in addition to a New Guinea Hawk-Eagle, and three Indian 
Eggs. Mr. Gurney has kindly sent me the following notes 
on the additions to the Birds of Prey : — 
“ As the Norwich Museum contained only one example of 
the fine Harpyopsis nova-guinea, Salva., obtained many years 
ago by my father, who looked upon it as a prize at that time, 
the Curator was not sorry to acquire another. It had been 
collected by Mr. H. Pratt, in August, 1903, in British New 
Guinea (Babooni, 3,000 feet). My father looked upon 
Harpyopsis as not far removed from Thrasnetus, the great 
Harpy of South America, being like it a bare-legged Hawk- 
Eagle, but it is probably a bird of more active habits. The 
chief Raptorial addition during the year, and the most im- 
portant for some time, is the fine South American Leucopternis 
princeps, Scl : from Boquese Chiriqui (height 3,500 feet) in 
N.W. Ecuador. This, with other birds, was obtained by one 
of Mr. Rosenberg’s successful collectors, some of whose 
consignments formed the subject of an article in Novitates 
Zool : (vol. ix. p. 599), by Mr. Hartert. The Norwich Museum 
has now the whole of the genus Leucopternis except 
L. occidentalis. The dispersion of Mr. K. C. Macdonald’s 
collection of Indian eggs at Mr. Stevens’ sale-rooms gave an 
opportunity of filling up a few more gaps among our disiderata 
in Raptorial Oology. Authenticated examples were secured 
accordingly of Gyps himalayensis , Gyps tenuirosiris, (2) ; and 
Gyps pallescens (from Col. Rattray).” 
Mr. Eustace Gurney presented a glazed mahogany case 
