470 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
Ourang-outang ( Simia satyrus), which is a good addition to the 
collection. A fine head of the Indian Wild Ox ( Bibos gaurus), 
presented by Mr. Sims .Reeve, is a very handsome object ; and to 
Mr. Russell J. Colman the Museum is indebted for a Canadian 
Beaver ( Castor canadensis), and a pair of Egyptian Ichneumons 
( Herpestes ichneumon). 
Many additions have been made to the collection of British 
Birds, amongst which may be mentioned a female Goshawk, shot 
from the nest at Westerdale, Yorkshire, in 1893, also two of her 
four eggs ; the nesting of this bird in Britain is an occurrence as 
interesting as it is rare. Mr. Gurney has given us an adult male 
Woodchat Shrike, shot at Henham, in Suffolk, a Parrot Crossbill 
from Earlham, a pied variety of the Moorhen, and an interesting 
hybrid between the Greenfinch and the Linnet. A very remarkable 
chestnut variety of the Common Partridge and a handsome hybrid 
between the Pheasant and the Domestic Eowl have also been 
received. Colonel Eeilden lias presented three pretty little nestlings 
of the Little Stint which he obtained in North Russia, also an 
Ivory Gull and a Brunnich’s Guillemot with two nestlings, killed 
by him in JMovaya Zemlya ; a specimen of Tinamus robust us with 
a skeleton of the same has been purchased, a welcome addition, 
as this family of birds is very imperfectly represented in the 
Museum. 
Of the additions to the Birds of Prey, Mr. Gurney has kindly 
favoured me with the following notes : 
“ Our chief acquisition, Mr. Butler’s new 7 Sparrow Hawks— an 
old and a young — described as Astur ( Scelospizias ) butleri, G., in 
the ‘Bulletin,’ B.O.C., no. 1. p. xxvii., and to be figured in the 
‘ Transactions of the Bombay Natural History Society,’ were shot 
by Mr. A. L. Butler, on the island of Car Nicobar, in the Bay 
of Bengal. The young one is bright chestnut colour, like an 
hepatic Cuckoo, a phase never observed in the allied species, 
A. poliopsis and A. badius. Mr. Butler obtained four in this 
plumage, and observed others probably more advanced in change, 
in which the crown was rufous. The fellow specimens to our 
two ai’e added to Mr. Rothschild’s magnificent collection at Tring, 
and no others have reached this country at present, nor are likely 
to do so. I should like here to mention that there are three 
Hawks in the Nonvich Museum of the small Sparrow Hawk 
