86 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
Holt in the years 1856, 1858, and 1859, as recorded by Mr. Stevenson 
in the ‘Birds of Norfolk’ (vol. i. p. 349). An example of the 
Scandinavian form of the Dipper ( Cinclus melanogaster) killed 
near Aylsham, was presented by Mr. Stanley Bullock. It has 
been pointed out that the chestnut-breasted form of the Dipper, 
found in the British Isles, is of excessively rare occurrence in this 
county, and that those which are occasionally met with here are 
almost invariably stragglers from the Continent. Lord Lilford has 
also sent a skin of Bichard’s Pipit ( Anthus ricardi), which was 
taken alive at Caister near Yarmouth. From the Bev. C. J. Lucas 
the Museum lias received a pied Long-eared Owl, shot near 
Yarmouth in July, 1861, in which the wings, lower part of the 
breast, and a portion of the facial disk are pure white, — a variety 
produced by the partial absence of pigment in the feathers, very 
rare in the Accipitres and almost unique in Striges, which makes 
his gift an especially welcome one. 
Mr. Gurney has been kind enough to furnish me with the 
following notes on some Baptorial birds new to the collection, 
which have been obtained through him. 
“ During the year, three additional species have been added to 
the Baptorial collection, viz., an African Kestrel ( Tinnunculus 
dlopex, Heuglin), and two Buzzards ( Buteo krideri, Iloope, 
and B. galapagensis, Gould). The former is a light-coloured 
geographical race of B. borealis, and the latter a form of B. swainsoni, 
two common North American species. B. galapagensis, says 
Mr. Bidgway, differs chiefly from B. swainsoni, if not entirely, in 
its heavier bill and feet (“Albatross Explorations,” Proc. N. M., 
vol. xii. p. 113). In this latter character, and especially in the 
size of its claws, our example, which is a female, acquired from 
Dr. George Bauer of Chicago, greatly exceeds the skins of 
B. swainsoni preserved in the Museum at Norwich. This is the 
only bird which Dr. Bauer has allowed to be separated from the 
rest of his Galapagos collection, the reputation of the Norwich 
Museum inducing him to make an exception in our favour, 
granted to nobody else. He writes : ‘ This bird (B. galapagensis) 
is exceedingly tame. On Duncan Island one allowed itself to be 
tickled with a whip, which I moved over its head and neck. This 
same bird followed me to a small rock about fifty paces from the 
land. On Indefatigable Island the Buzzard is very common ; they 
