THE COLLECTION OF BIRDS 
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collection 571 specimens of 339 species. In addition to 
these, 26 specimens of 20 species (14 of which species were 
new to the collection) have been selected out ot the last two 
collections for mounting when the Taxidermists return next 
autumn. The mounted series for the year 1909 will 
therefore comprise 597 specimens of 353 species. The skin 
collection contains 1,120 specimens of some 330 odd species, 
and the total collection of Chinese birds in the Museum, 
mounted and in the skin, consists now (1st June, 1909) 
of 1,717 specimens of 431 species. These figures compare very 
favourably with those given in the “February 1894” List, 
and the number of species is greatly in excess of those 
mentioned in Styan’s List of 1883. 
Remarks on the New Collection. 
Our present series of Passeres is very satisfactory. The 
mounted collection of Crows, Tits, Crow-Tits and Laughing 
Thrushes of Eastern China is almost complete, and these birds 
are also well represented in the skin collection. The various 
mountain birds of the Province of Fohkien which we have, 
include well-mounted specimens of such rarities as the 
Chinese Shortwing ( Drymochares sinensis Pickett), the 
Spotted-throated Tit-Babbler ( Proparus guttaticollis La 
Touche) and P. David’s Pale Shrike-Tit ( Allotrius pallidus 
Dav.); other less rare but no. less interesting birds such as 
Rickett’s Shrike-Tit ( Pteruthius ricketti Grant), the Pale 
Yuhina ( Y. pallida La Touche), David’s Quaker-Thrush 
{Alcippe hueti Dav.), the Chinese Red-capped Babbler 
(Stachyridopsis sinensis Grant), David’s Brown Quaker-Thrush 
(Sch. supercilians A. Dav.) are exhibited. The series of 
these and of many others in the skin collection are very fair. 
In both the mounted and skin series the Bulbuls of 
Eastern China are well represented, but there are still three 
