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Letters , Extracts, and Noies. 
type of the newly-described Irish Coal Tit ( Parus hiber- 
nicus), presented by Mr. Collingwood Ingram : the first 
British-killed specimen of the Carolina Crake ( Borzana 
Carolina ), presented by Mr. H . S. W. Eyre : 676 birds from 
South China, received in exchange from Lt.-Commander 
It. E. Vaughan, R.N. : 108 birds from South China, pre¬ 
sented by Staff-Surgeon C. E. C. Stanford , R.N. : 166 birds 
from Formosa, presented by Mr. A. E.Wileman : 4 birds from 
Formosa, including the type of a new species ( Nucifraga 
owstoni), presented by Mr. Collingwood Ingram : 61 birds 
from the N.-W. Provinces of India, presented by Capt. C. 
H. T. Whitehead: 162 Kalij Pheasants from Burma, in¬ 
cluding examples of six species new to the Collection, and 
seven type-specimens ( Oates Collection ): 4 birds from Upper 
Burmah, including the types of three new subspecies, pre¬ 
sented by Major H. II. Harington : 141 birds from Annam, 
including the type of a new species of Pigeon ( Crocopus 
annamensis ), collected by Dr. J. J. Vassal: 115 birds from 
Borneo, presented by the British Ornithologists 3 Union : 
4 birds, including two specimens of a Chaffinch ( Fringilla 
polatzeki) new r to the Collection, from Grand Canary, 
presented by Mr. D. A. Bannerman : a Whale-headed Stork 
( Balaniceps rex) from the Bahr-el-Ghazal, presented by 
Lieut.-General Sir Francis Wingate , K.C.B. : 45 birds from 
Somaliland and South Abyssinia, presented by Dr. R. E. 
Drake-Brockman : 429 birds from British East Africa, col¬ 
lected by Mr. Robin Kemp, presented by Mr. C. D. Rudd : 
219 birds from various localities in British East Africa, 
presented by Mr. S. L. Hinde : 283 birds from the Mabira 
Forest, British East Africa, presented by Mr. L. M. Seth- 
Smith : the type-specimens of Stiphrornis mabira , Alethe 
kikuyuensis , and of five other species recently described, from 
British East Africa, presented by Mr. F. J. Jackson : 
159 birds and 3 eggs from Lake Ngami, collected by 
Mr. R. B. Woosman and the Hon. Gerald Legge, presented 
by the subscribers to the Lake Ngami Expedition Fund: 
1346 birds, nests, and eggs from Angola, Portuguese Guinea, 
and the Cape Verde Islands, including an example of one 
