The curator of the Museum (Mr. Bernard H. Woodward) acknowledges the
receipt of the, following donations during the past month :—
- The Premier, two photographs of Salmonidoe ;
- Mrs. W. J. Eastcott, common pouched mouse (Sminthopsis murina) ;
- Mrs. Aitken, freckled pouched mouse (Phascolagali apicalis) ;
- Mr. C. MacGregor, auriferous specimens from Star of W.A. mine, Broad Arrow ;
- Mr. L. Ehlert, coralline, from Direction Reef, 40 miles from Fremantle ;
- Mr. E. Courthope, banded superb warbler (malurus splendens) ;
- Mr. Milnes, carpet snake (morelia variegata), caught at Mundaring ;
- Mr. W. K. Adam, R.M., Swan River honeyeater (Melithreptus chloropsis), white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus (pomatostomus superciliosus ;
- the Government geologist, annual report of the geological survey ;
- Mr. John G. Withnall, copper ore from Roebourne ;
- Mr. Neilson, two sheltopusik lizards (pygopus [?]pus), Australian blind snake (typhlops Australis), crowned snake (coronella sp.), scorpion (buthus occitans), newt (?), two beetles (?) ;
- Conservator of forests “Annual Report of the Woods and Forests Department for the financial year 18978” ;
- Hon. Minister of Mines, N.S.W., “Mineral Resources, No. 3” ;
- Mr. E. Gifford, brown snake (Diemenia superciliosus), caught at Pinjarrah ;
- Mr. Stanley Liddelow, Australian goshawk (astur cruentus), ;
- Miss Gladys Salkilld, a Spanish fowl ;
- Mr. F. Maley, two wedge-tailed eagles (aquila audax) ;
- Mr. D. P. Caporn, mountain devil (moloch horridus).
The purchases include the following :—Regent bird (sericulus melinus),
nest and eggs of butcher bird (cracticus torquatus), nest and eggs of Swan
River honeyeater (melithreptus chloropsis), two banded superb warblers
(malurus splendens), white-throated thick-head (pachyephala gutturalis),
sacred king-fisher (todirhamphus sanctus), sombre honey-eater (myzantha
obscura), two white-headed stilts (himantopus leucocephalus).
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