MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 313 
XII. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 1905. 
By Frank Leney, 
Assistant Curator of Museum. 
Read 2jth March, 1906. 
Among the additions to the Natural History Collections 
during the past year which are of interest to this Society, 
are male and female specimens of the Skomer Vole ( Evotomys 
skomerensis) and females of the Orkney Vole ( Microtus 
orcadensis) presented by Mr. R. Drane of Cardiff ; they 
represent new species, or at any rate well marked local varieties. 
Dr. Chas. Hose, British Resident in Sarawak, presented 
a “ nest ” of the Orang utan ( Simia satyrus) from Borneo. 
This donation is of much importance as there are but two or 
three nests to be seen as yet in any Museum, and it is 
anticipated that it will be practicable to have an Orang utan 
and nest set up in accordance with Dr. Hose’s observations 
on the habits of these animals. Dr. Hose said that the “ nest ” 
is really a number of branches crushed down on to a bough 
of a tree to form a screen from the wind, so that the Orang 
can watch in comfort until the neighbouring cultivated fields 
are left unprotected. 
By the gift of three plates of whalebone by Mr. R. C. 
Haldane, of Ronas’s Yoe, Shetland, the Museum now possesses 
examples of the baleen of all the British Balamopteridae, but 
that of the Atlantic Right Whale ( Baleena biscayensis) is still 
a desideratum. 
Mr. Harvie-Brown presented a pair of Yellow-breasted 
Buntings ( Emberiza aureola) to represent a species recently 
added to the British List. 
