MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH OASTLE-MUSEUM. 299 
Mr. Gurney has placed in the cases, charts coloured to indicate 
the distribution of the Families and Genera of the Birds of Prey 
which are exceedingly useful and instructive, and it is to be hoped 
that the same plan may shortly be adopted with regard to the 
general collections of Birds and Mammals ; he has also placed in 
a butterfly screen, maps showing the distribution as a whole of the 
Serpentaridie, the Old and New World Vultures, and of the Falconidae 
and Pamlionid®, also of the Butonidae and Strigidoe, and coloured 
drawings of the heads of an example in each order, with some of 
the peculiar anatomical features, and eggs of selected examples. 
These beautiful coloured drawings by Mr. Keulemans, illustrating 
the systematic arrangement of the orders Accipitres and Striges, as 
finally adopted by tho late Mr. Gurney in the arrangement of the 
Raptores, are most useful additions, forming a key to the two 
groups, and will be a great assistance to the st udent. Is or has 
Mr. Gurney’s liberality ceased here, he has added twenty-seven 
eggs of Birds of Prey, including the following species, viz. : — 
Cafhartes aura from Orange Country, United States, Antenor 
unicAnctus from Guadaloupe, Buteo swainsoni from Montana, 
B. albicaudatus from Arizona, />. borealis and B. pen nsi/lva me us, 
from ITebron, New York, Archibuteo ferrugineus from Wyoming, 
Pholeoptynx cunicularia from Florida, and P. liypogcea from 
California. Nests of the Whydah Finch from Natal, and Twite 
from Ireland, also of the Ruff, Grasshopper Warbler, Willow 
Warbler, and Reed-bunting have been added, the last four having 
been presented by Mr. J. A. Cole. 
A few additions to the Ichthyological collection have been 
made, but in this department there is nothing special to report ; 
the Baroness Berners has also contributed some four hundred 
specimens of foreign marine Shells to the already rich Conchological 
collection. 
Some progress has been made in re-arranging and naming the 
departments of Geology and Mineralogy, in which the assistance 
of the authorities of the British Museum is gratefully acknowledged; 
to the Trustees of that Institution the Committee are also 
indebted for the addition of upwards of two hundred species of 
Palaeozoic fossils, and to Professor T. Rupert Jones for a set of 
Tertiary and Cretaceous Foraminifera and Entomostraca, principally 
from the Chalk and Chalk-marl. 
