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have received a very fine example of the Great Kangaroo 
(Macropibs rufus), and a female Tiger, both of which have been 
mounted for the collection. Good specimens of the Australian 
Koala ( Phascolarctu s cinereus), and of the Sooty Phalanger 
( Phalangrr fulir/inosuts) from Tasmania have also been presented, 
the former by Mr. .James Trackson and the latter by 
Mr. R. G. Warnes. The Committee are also indebted to 
Mr. A. J L. Cocks for a British example of a Grey Seal in its 
first coat. The above are the more notable of the additions to the 
collection of Mammals. 
Mr. Gurney has favoured me with the following notes on some 
of the additions to the Birds of Prey : — 
“The principal addition to the Raptorial collection during 
1 89 G is, perhaps, the Mcliprax mechotri, Cab., presented by 
Professor du Bocage, Director of the Lisbon Museum, who 
remarks on this species: — ‘ Bien distinct du .1/. Poh/zntnis, per ses 
teintes'plus foncees et par l’absense de vermiculations claires sur les 
couvertures des ailes.’ It is also a little larger than M. Poly-onus, 
from which it seems to be deservedly separated. 
“We have also admitted a female Tiiuiunriilns mohirr >■>,.< is from 
Kalso Island, as being the form separated by Meyer and 
Wigglesworth under the trinomial designation of T. M. orrhhntulis. 
Mr. E. Hartert calls it ‘the very distinct Celebes form’ 
(Nov. Zool. vol. iii. p. 102), but new species are set up on very 
slight characters now, and this Kestrel can claim little more than 
the lighter underparts, and whitish-grey ear-coverts as characteristic 
of it. 
“ In February we procured Nina? oehraeea, Schl., from the 
Celebes group, described in 1800, and figured in B. M. 
Catalogue, vol. ii., pi. xi., but which is still an Owl of extreme 
rarity. Dr. Meyer, through whose intervention it was obtained, 
only knows of eight other specimens besides this one, four of which 
are in the Museum at Dresden, and three at Leiden. Our bird 
was killed at Tonkean, N.E. Celebes, in August, 1895, and is 
apparently adult, with a tail only three inches long, whereas 
Dr. Sharpe, probably by a misprint, gives it as five inches in the 
British Museum Catalogue, a difference of two inches. 
“In ‘The Birds and Mammals collected by the Menage 
Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands,’ Messrs. Burns and 
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