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of estimating the increase of last year, the total number of specimens in the collection of the Department of Birds at the end of June 1890, is about as follows:-

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[[collection]] | 1888-'89 |1 889-'90 | Increase | Decrease
Reserve skin series | 45450 | 46543 | 1084 | .....
Duplicate " "[[ditto for skin series]] | 6756 | 6543 | ..... | 213
Exhibition | 6714* | 7133* | 419+) | .....
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* By actual count
+) Part of specimens mounted during latter part of 1888-'89, but not in cases when count for that year was made.

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The last entry in the catalogue in June, 1889, is 116630; the last one at the end of June, 1890, is 118369, the total addition during the

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