198 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
Museum has been indebted to the Womb wells, and their successors, 
the proprietors of the celebrated travelling manageries, for gifts of 
animals which have died in their collections, and Mr. E. H. Bostock, 
the present proprietor, has been most liberal in this respect. To him 
we are indebted for a very handsome Leopard ( Felis pardus), an 
Ocelot ( Felis pardalis), a Baccoon (Procyon lotor), and a Coypu 
(M yopotcimus coypus), all of which were very acceptable additions. 
To the Trustees of the National Museum, Melbourne, Australia, 
through Sir Francis G. M. Boileau, the Museum is indebted for the 
present of specimens of the Australian Duckbill ( Ornithorlujnclim 
anatinus), the Echidna (Echidna luystrix), the Wombat (Phaseolomys 
platyrhinus), and the Bandicoot (Perameles c/uimii); and to Mr. A. G. 
Hudson for two specimens of the Norwegian Lemming. 
The general collection of Birds has also received some interesting 
additions from Sir Francis Boileau, amongst which may be mentioned 
a pair of Huia Birds ( Heteralocha acutirostris), a species new to 
the collection, two specimens of the Parson Bird (Prostliemadera 
novce-zelandice), the Stych Bird ( Pogonornis cincta), the New Zealand 
Bell-bird (Anthornismelanura), and others from N ew Zealand, and male 
and female specimens of the Victorian Lyre-bird (Mmiura victor ice), 
from the Trustees of the National Museum, Melbourne, through 
Sir Francis Boileau. Two specimens of the Pelican (Pelicanus 
onocrotalus), killed in Egypt, and presented by Mr. S. purney Buxton ; 
examples of Brunnich’s Guillemot, and a female King Eider 
(iSomateria spectabilis ) from Novaya Zemlya ; a White-billed Diver 
( Colymbus adamsi) from Norway; and a Mediterranean Black- 
headed Gull (Lotus melanocephalus ) from Malta, with other species 
from Colonel Feilden, and to the Eev. C. J. Lucas the Museum is 
indebted for a very interesting variety of the Long-eared Owl, with 
white wings, which was shot at Filby. 
Peculiar interest attaches just now to the White-billed Diver, 
in this county, for as recently pointed out by Mr. A. F. Griffith 
(‘ Zoologist,’ 1896, p. 14), there can be no doubt that a specimen of 
this Arctic species was killed by the late Mr. Booth, on Hickling 
Broad, on the 14th of December, 1872, after a “fearful gale from 
the S.W.” The bird in question is now in the Booth collection in 
the Brighton Museum, and its identification is beyond question ; 
it is thus entitled to a place in the list of birds killed in Norfolk. 
Only two other British-killed specimens of this bird are known ; 
