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Letters , Extracts, Notices , fyc* 
eggs from Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri, including the types of 
8 new species, collected by Mr. Ogilvie Grant and Dr. H. O. 
Forbes, presented by the Royal Society; the types of 8 new 
species of birds from Uganda, presented by Mr. F. J. 
Jackson, C.B.; 20 nests from Norway, presented by Mr. C. 
Horsbrugh; 664 birds and 53 eggs from the Galapagos 
Islands, collected by the Webster-Harris expedition, pur¬ 
chased ; 18 birds from Galicia, Spain, presented by Dr. Victor 
Lopez Seoane; 54 birds from the Gold Coast, presented by 
the late Colonel H. P. Northcott; 23 birds from Bolivia, 
presented by Sir Martin Conway; 9 examples of the “ Jer” 
Falcon from Greenland, purchased; 41 birds, including 
examples of 2 species new to the collection, from New 
Guinea, purchased ; 4 birds from Roraima, British Guiana, 
including the type of a new Finch ( Zonotrichia macconneJli ), 
presented by Mr. F. V. McConnell ; 18 birds from the 
island of Hainan, collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead, 
including the types of 5 new species, presented by Mr. J. T. 
Thomasson ; 136 birds and 6 eggs from the island of Hainan, 
collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead, purchased; 190 
birds from South China, including the types of 3 new species 
and an adult pair of the very rare Scaly Merganser ( Mer¬ 
ganser squamatus ), presented by Capt. A. W. S. Wingate; 
and 416 birds from S. Abyssinia, including the types of 16 
new species, and examples of 10 species not previously 
represented in the collection, presented by Mr. H. Weld- 
Blundell and Lord Lovat. 
Birds figured in the Egyptian Tombs. —In acknowledg¬ 
ment (perhaps) of some slight assistance, Mr. F. LI. Griffith 
has kindly sent to one of us two parts of the beautiful 
memoirs on the illustrations of the Egyptian Tombs pub¬ 
lished by the “ Archseological Survey of Egypt,^ which have 
special reference to Birds. In the Fifth Memoir (Beni 
Hasan, pt. iii. 1896) plate ii. is entirely devoted to “ Bird- 
Hieroglyphs,” of which 15 are shown and explained in the 
accompanying text. The exact determination of the con¬ 
ventionalized ” figures is not easy, although in some cases 
