47 2 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
the breast and belly, and the back and wings are darker ; males 
sent to the Tring Museum have been found by Mr. Hartert to be 
larger than females (c/. Nov. Zool. v. p. 473)), which is another 
distinction. It is a first-rate species, coming nearest, perhaps, 
to Ninox ( Spiloglaux ) novce-zealcmdice, with which it cannot be 
confounded. 
“ Three Mexican skins of Pholeoptynx, offered to the Museum 
by Mr. Edward Bidwell, are seemingly all P. cunicularia, and the 
Institution is indebted to him for Scops levcospilus from Halmahera 
Island near New Guinea, of which we have now a nice series.” 
The eggs of the Goshawk have already been mentioned, in 
addition to which Mr. Crowfoot has sent an egg of the curious 
Crab Plover ( Dromas ardeola), and a number of British and foreign 
nests ; a goodly number of additions have also been made in the 
departments of Ichthyology, Crustacea, and Entomology, but none 
requiring special mention. 
A most important addition to the local Geological collection 
has been made by Mr. Russell J. Colman, who has given to the 
Museum the extensive series of fossil Mammalian remains, numbering 
some four hundred and fifty specimens, derived from the Forest- 
bed and Glacial formations of the Norfolk coast— made by the late 
Mr. J. J. Colman. These, added to the already rich collection 
presented by the late Mr. Gunn (adequately to display the whole 
of which considerable additions to the wall-cases will have to be 
made), form an altogether unique series representing the remarkable 
fossil fauna of these celebrated local beds, and thus fulfilling one 
of the main purposes of a provincial Museum. 
