in the University of Cambridge. 323 



specimens, referable to three thousand and thirty one species, and 

 is thus one of the largest ever accumulated by a private person. 

 As may be expected from this statement it comprehends a great 

 variety of very rare and interesting forms, Chiefest among its 

 treasures may be mentioned Nestor productus, the extinct Phillip- 

 Island Parrot : but there are many others only inferior in value 

 to this ; for here are to be found most of the types of the species 

 described by Strickland in his numerous ornithological papers *. 



I have the pleasure of being able to illustrate this short notice 

 by a very beautiful plate of one of these types, executed many 

 years ago by Mr. Wolf for Sir William Jardine^s 'Contributions 

 to Ornithology,' but never before published. It represents 

 (Plate IX.) Campethera capricorni, described in that Journal 

 (1852, pp. 155, 156) ; and to the kindness of that veteran natu- 

 ralist, Strickland's father-in-law, I am indebted for the use of 

 the stone on which the figures have been drawn ; while Mrs. 

 Strickland, heretofore known to the readers of the ' The Ibis ' 

 as an excellent artist \, has herself coloured the pattern-im- 

 pression from the type-specimen, which until very lately was 

 unique J. Malherbe, who had only seen a coloured copy of the 

 accompanying plate, refused (Monographic des Picides, ii. pp. 

 169, 170) to allow its specific rank, uniting it with C. bennetti 

 (A. Smith) ; but Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. iv. p. 123, note) and 

 Mr. G. R. Gray (List B. Br. Mus. PicidcB, p. 81) rightly, as it 

 seems to me, recognize its distinctness, while Prof. Sundevall, 

 though not without a mark of doubt, does the same (Consp. Av, 

 Picinarum, p. 64). The diagnostic remark appended to the 

 original description (Contr. Orn. ut supra) is perfectly correct. 

 It is there said of the species : — 



'' Near C. benneti (Smith) — [Picas guttatus, Licht. ; C. vario- 

 losa, Gray) — but differs in having a stouter beak, smaller spots 

 on the breast, and the rump spotted instead of barred'' 



* There is no need to give a list of these papers ; they are all enume- 

 rated, and many of them reprinted, in tlie ' Memoir ' before mentioned. 



t Ibis, 1861, p. 184, pi. vi. 



X The species must still be regarded as extremely rare. Mr. Sharpe 

 informs me that he has examples from Damara Land, collected by Anders- 

 son, from whom Strickland obtained his. 



