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NOTE XII. 

 CAMPOPHAGAE. 



Notes on some Campophagidae in the Leyden Museum. 



By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F. L. S. etc. 



The difficulty in determining certain obscure and doubtful 

 species of birds , which were not in the collection of the 

 British Museum, induced me to pay a short visit to Ley- 

 den, before sending my fourth volume of the 'Catalogue 

 of Birds' to the press. Before commencing my observations 

 on the species 1 feel it my duty to thank Professor 

 Schlegel for the uniform kindness which he has shewn 

 me on the occasion of every visit which I have made 

 for the purposes of study in that great collection, which 

 his energy has contrived to make one of the foremost in 

 the world. 



Unfortunately the time that I could spare from my 

 duties in England was very short , too short , indeed , for 

 me thoroughly to exhaust the points of enquiry which 

 led me to Holland, and I was so much occupied with 

 the treasures among the Muscicapidae , that I was unable 

 to devote much leisure to the Campophagidae. The series 

 of the latter family is so extended in the Leyden Museum , 

 that a prolonged study alone would do justice to the 

 material which Professor Schlegel has accumulated since 

 the days when Dr. Hartlaub wrote his monograph on the 

 group (Journal fur Ornithologie, 1864, pp. 435 — 446, 

 1865, pp. 153 — 173). I was able, however, to identify 

 one or two types described by the last-named author. 



Notes ivom tlie Leytlen JMuseiim. 



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