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MUSEUMS. 



accessions. Special attentiou was given by the Canon to the birds of 

 tbe Oceanic Isbiuds, chiefly of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the 

 collection — which is specially rich in this depiirtment — has been, as he 

 himself has remarl^ed, " most valuable in the study of types under 

 changed conditions and especially in isolation." There are, in the 

 collection, specimens of a number of species now extinct, and so rare 

 that but very few museums anywhere possess examples. Of these may 

 be mentioned the Labrador Duck (Camptolcenms lahradoricus) already 

 represented, however, in our Knowsley Collection ; the Norfolk Island 

 Parrot (Nestoi- productus), previously in the same Collection, but 

 given away in exchange; the Raratongan Flycatcher {Munarchadimidiata) ; 

 and a number of bones of the Great Auk {Alca impennis). 



The Tristram Collection contains contributions from the following 

 naturalists, explorers and travellers : — 



A, L, Adams, d'Albertis, A. Anderson, C. J. Andersson, Audebert, 

 Beavan, Sir E. Belcher, Bernstein, Biddulph, Blakiston, Blanford, 

 E. Blyth, Boie, Brehm, W. E. Brooks, Bryant, Sir W. Buller, 

 du Chaillu, Coues, Dall, Danford, Charles Darwin, Pfere David, 

 Dresser, Elwes, Emin Pasha, Eversraan, Everett, Eyton, Fielden, 

 0. Finsch, H. 0. Forbes, Frazer, Gatke, Giglioli, Godman, J. H. 

 Gurney, Sen. and Junr., Gould, Sir J. von Haast, Habel, Hancock, 

 Harting, Hartlaub, Sir J. Hector, von Heuglin, G. Henderson, Brian 

 Hodgson, Hose, A. Hume, Sir H. H. Johnston, Sir W. Jardine, Jerdon, 

 Jesse, Sir J. Knk, Kleinsmidt, Kriiper, Kubary, E. L. Layard, Legge, 

 Lord Lilford, J. J. Lister, Mandelli, W. T. Marsh, J. Motley, Professor 

 A. Newton, Sir E. Newton, E. W. Gates, Petherick, Prjevalsky, Riidde, 

 Wardlaw-Ramsay, Dr. P. Rendall, G. E. Richards, Ridgway, Riippell, 

 Salvadori, 0. Salvin, H. Saunders, St, John, Schlegel, Sclater, H. Seebohm, 

 Severtzof, Captain G. E. Shelley, P. J. Selby, Sir A. Smith, R. Swinhoe, 

 Stolitzka, Theobald, the Marquis Tweeddale, Ussher, Van Dam, 

 J. Verreaux, A. R. Wallace, Lord Walsingham, Wheelwright, Whitmee, 

 Whitehead, Wimberley, Woodford. 



The Tristram Collection is poorer in South American Birds than in 

 those of any other region. In the birds of that region, however, the 

 famous Collection of the Fourteenth Earl of Derby, presented to the 

 Museum in 1851, is singularly rich, so that the two collections supplement 

 each other in a most unexpected manner, and it will be found that the 



