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PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



NOTES ON HORSFIELD'S 'ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



IN JAVA.' 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



Thomas Horsfield's 'Researches in Java'i is a well-known 

 book. As the preface states, the "design of the undertaking 

 was to exhibit accurate Figures, accompanied by detailed de- 

 scriptions, of the most interesting Quadrupeds and Birds col- 

 lected during my residence in Java." 



Most of the new species of birds here fully described and 

 figured had been previously introduced to science in a paper 

 by the same author, entitled 'Systematic Arrangement and 

 Description of Birds from the Island of Java,'^ but more definite 

 localities for many of them are here added. Furthermore, 

 Horsfield had access to the manuscript, and later evidently 

 to the proof sheets of Sir Stamford Raffles' 'Descriptive Cata- 

 logue of a Zoological Collection, made on account of the Hon- 

 ourable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and 

 its Vicinity. '3 



' Zoological Researches in Java ' consists of 32 plates of mam- 

 mals and an equal number of plates of birds, with 7 plates of 

 osteological and structural details of both mammals and birds, 

 a total of 71 plates. It was issued in eight parts, each consist- 

 ing of four plates of mammals, four plates of birds, with descrip- 

 tive text, and, in all but part 8, an additional plate of "illustra- 

 tions." In addition there are 10 supplemental pages contain- 

 ing a "General Catalogue of Javanese Birds, arranged in the 



1 Zoological Researches in Java and the Neighbouring Islands, 1821-1824; pis. I-LXXI 

 [not numbered], and text (not paged], 



zTransactions Linnean Society London, XIII, pt. I, May, 1821, pp. 133-200. 



sTransactions Linnean Society London, XIII, pt. I, May, 1821, pp. 239-274; ibid., 

 pt. II, 1822, pp. 277-340. 



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