302 Zoology. 



Arrigoni degli Oddi {Count E.). 



100 specimens of Italian Birds. Presented. [99. 8. 12, 1-100.] 

 Count Arrigoni degli Oddi is one of the most serious students of 

 Pala3arctic ornitliology of the present day, and his great work, " Atlante 

 Ornitologico ; Uccelli Europe! con notizie d'Indole geuerale et particolare," 

 published in 1902 (pp. 166, xxvi., 568, tav. i.-l.), is a monumental 

 volume which deals with the ornithology of the Western Palaaarctic 

 Eegion in a wonderfully complete manner, at once scientific and popular. 



Ashmore (G. P.). 



21 birds from High Peru. Presented. [99. 10. 3, 1-21.] 



Aubinn (St. Thomas David). 



A native collector on the Gold Coast, who obtained many rare species 

 for Governor Ussher, and also sent collections to the Museum. 



Austen (E. E.). 



See Cambridge (F. 0. Pickard). 



20 birds from the Ptiver Amazon. [96. 5. 12, 1-20.] 



Mr. Austen, who is in charge of the section of "Diptera" in the 



Zoological Department, has made expeditions to the River Amazon and to 



Sierra Leone, by the permission of the Trustees. On the former occasion he 



and his companion Mr. Pickard Cambridge obtained a small series of birds. 



Australian Museum (Sydney, N.S.W., Professor Robeut 

 Etheridge, Director). 

 30 birds from various parts of Australia. Presented. 



[77. 11. 15, 1-30.] 

 107 birds from Australia. In exchange. [83. 12. 18, 1-107.] 

 This last collection formed part of the mounted series in the Aus- 

 tralian Court at the International Fisheries Exhibition. 



38 birds from N.E. Queensland. Presented. [90. 9. 19, 1-38.] 

 Several species were new to the Museum, Collyriocincla boiveri, 

 Eopsaltria chrysorthoa, Ihtcromyias cinereifrons, etc. 



Ayres (Thomas). 



33 birds from Natal. [59. 5. 16, 1-33.] 



Many birds from Mr. Ayres' first collection came to the British 

 Museum ; the eggs, obtained at the same time, passed into the hands of 

 Messrs. Salvin and God man, and are also in the Museum. 



The Accipitres obtained by Mr. Ayres were retained by Mr. John 

 Henry Gurney, who was then forming the famous series for which 

 the Norwich Museum is so celebrated. Mr. Gurney presented many 

 specimens to the Museum at King's Lynn, for which town he was then 

 M.P., and described the whole collection in the "Ibis" for 1859, 

 together with notes made on the birds sent to Europe by Dr. Gueinzius. 

 Many of these latter had been purchased by the Museum through 

 Mr. Samuel Stevens. Between 1859 and 1873 Mr. Gurney published no 

 less than eleven lists of the birds sent by Mr. Ayres* from Natal. When 

 the latter moved into the Transvaal, he settled at Potchefstroom and 

 continued his collecting, the papers being written by himself, with 



* Cf. Ayres, Ibis, 18G9, pp. 286-30.3; 1871, pp. 147-157, 253-270, pi. ; 

 1873, pp. 280-287; 1874, pp. 101-107, pi. 3; 1876, pp. 422-433; 1877, 

 pp. 339-354; 1878, pp. 281-301, 406-411 ; 1879, pp. 285-300, 389-405 ; 1880, 

 pp. t>9-ir2, 2.57-273. 



