692 Report on the British Museum for 1908. 
Birds has been commenced for exhibition in the public 
galleries. 
The accessions to the Collection of Birds in 1908 
numbered two thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. Of 
these the most noteworthy were as follows :— 
Six specimens of Parus dresseri and P. borealis from 
Gloucestershire ; presented by G. H. Paddock, Esq. 
Six examples of Charadrius morinellus, and two specimens 
of Pelecanus onocrotalus ; presented by the Hon. N. C. 
Rothschild. 
Eighty-two birds from Borneo; presented by the British 
North Borneo Company. Twenty-eight birds from Shan- 
Si; presented by Dr. E. H. Edwards. One hundred and 
thirty-three birds from Upper Burmah; purchased of 
Messrs. Gerrard & Sons. Fifty-seven birds and eggs from 
Burmah; presented by Major H. H. Harington. Two 
specimens of Microperdix inglisi —types of the species; 
presented by Mr. Charles M. Inglis. Two hundred and 
eighty-eight birds from Tian Shan; purchased of Mr. Kut- 
zenko. Sixty-six birds, chiefly from Bannu, N.W. India 
(including the type of Molpastes magrathi) ; presented by 
Major H. A. F. Magrath. Two females of Calophasis 
burmanicus (from the Ruby Mines, Burmah) and one 
example of Clangula glaucion ; presented by Mr. E. W. 
Oates. Nests with eggs of Geocichla varia and G. sibirica 
from Japan; presented by Mr. Radcliffe Saunders. Three 
hundred and nine birds from Kohat, N.W. Provinces, India; 
presented by Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead. 
Two hundred and forty-one birds from Cameroon— 
including the types of six new species—collected by 
Mr. G. L. Bates; purchased. Twenty-five eggs from 
Bitye, River Ja, Cameroon; presented by Mr. G. L. Bates. 
A specimen of Pitta reichenowi from Jinja, 15 miles west of 
the Ripon Falls, Uganda; presented by Dr. Cuthbert 
Christy. One hundred and twenty-five birds, collected 
by Captain Hamerton in Somaliland; purchased. Two 
examples of Scotocerca inquieta; presented by Mr. M. J. Nicoll. 
Thirty-two birds from Liberia; presented by Mr. J. M. 
