766 MR. F. LENEY ON ADDITIONS TO NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
XII. 
SOME ADDITIONS TO 
THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM IN 190S. 
By Frank Leney, 
Assistant Curator of Museum, 
Read 30 th March, 1909. 
The additions to the collections in the Castle Museum for the 
year ending December 31st, 1908, included a gift from Mr. 
Wilfred H. Edgar of a male and female Malabar Squirrel 
(■ Sciurus maximus) from India, and the skeleton of the adult 
male Orang utan ( Simla satyrus) from Sarawak, Borneo, 
presented by Dr. Chas. Hose in 1907. The ornithological 
collection was enriched by Captain F. R. Barton. C.M.G., 
Administrator of British New Guinea, with skins of Long- 
tailed Bird of Paradise ( Astrapia stephanice) (2 specimens), 
Long- tailed Kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea), Scarlet-breasted 
Kingfisher ( T . dance), and Stella’s Parrakeet ( Charmosyna , 
stellce), from New Guinea ; skins of Black-throated Heron 
( Ardea melanocephala), Scissor-billed Tern ( Rhynchops flaviros- 
tris), and Hagedash Ibis ( Hagedashia cafrensis) from the White 
Nile ; shot. February and March, 1907, by the donor — The 
Rt. Hon. Sir Savile Crossley, Bart., ; and twelve Birds’ Skins 
from Sarawak. Borneo, viz. : — Miglyptes tukki, Chrysocolaptes 
validus, Ptilopus temmincki, Palceornis longicauda, Philentoma 
velata, Erithacus cyaneus, Hemixus connectens, Melacopternm 
■magnum, Macronus ptilosus, Xanthopygia cyanomclcena, 
Alcippe cinerea, Eurylcemus javanicus ; and Red Bird of 
Paradise ( Uranornis rubra), from New Guinea; presented by 
Dr. Chas. Hose. 
An interesting addition to the collection of British Birds 
is that of an immature Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) taken 
