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States and the Upper Mekong Valley have been published by Colonel 

 Bingham in the " Journal " of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (with Mr. 

 H. N. Thompson) for 1900 (pp. 102-142), and in the "Ibis" for 1903 

 (pp. 584-606, pis. xi. and xii.). 



Blaauw (F. E.). 



Eggs of Aramides ypecaha and Ocydromus australis, laid in his 

 menagerie. Presented. [98. 3. 15, 1, 2.] 



Nestlings of Chen rossii, C. hyperboreus, Cygnus buccinator, and 

 fjoephaga ruhridiceps. Presented. [1905. 12. 8, 1-4.] 



Blakiston {Capt. T. A.). 



59 birds from Japan. Presented. [83. 12. 29, 1-32 ; 84. 1. 25, 1-27.] 

 Capt. Blakiston's early papers were on the birds of the Saskatche- 

 wan region in western Canada (Ibis, 1861, p. 314 ; 1862, p. 3 ; 1863, 

 pp. 39, 121). He was a captain in the Royal Artillery, and his North 

 American collection appears to have been presented to the Royal Artillery 

 Institution at Woolwich (cf. Whitely, " Catalogue of North American 

 Birds and Eggs arranged in cabinets in the Museum of the R. A. Institu- 

 tion " 1865). In 1862 Capt, Blakiston commenced his papers on Japanese 

 ornithology in the " Ibis," and he became an intimate correspondent of 

 Consul Robert Swinhoe, who described several new and rare species. 

 Ultimately Blakiston summed up the results of his labours in a little 

 pamphlet, " The Birds of Japan, Amended List " (1884), in which he 

 emphasised the fact that the fauna of Yezo was defined from that of Hondo 

 by a line of demarcation at the Strait of Tsugar, the animals found to the 

 south of this strait being Japanese, while the northern islands were 

 more truly Siberian. Thus " Blakiston's Line " has become as important 

 a feature in the zoo-geography of Northern Asia as " Wallace's Line " is 

 to the student of the Avifauna of the Moluccas. 



Blancanaux (F.). 



A resident in British Honduras, who made some valuable collections 

 of the birds of that country. The results are recorded in the " Biologia 

 Centrali- Americana," by Ur. F. D. Godman and Mr. Osbert Salvin. 



Blanford (W. T.), LL.D., F.B.S., CLE. 



84 birds from Burma, Presented. [63. 5. 15, 1-84.] 



476 birds collected by Dr. Blanford during the Abyssinian Expedition. 

 Presented by the Government of India. [69. 10. 16, 1-476,] The first 

 set went to the Calcutta Museum, 



72 birds from various localities, Sikhim, Godavery Valley, Bind, etc. 

 Presented. [73. 6, 16, 1-33 ; 80, 8. 12, 1-3 ; 80. 9. 29, 1-13 ; 80. 11. 11, 

 1-7 ; 1900. 8. 13, 1-16.] 



325 birds from Baluchistan and Persia collected by Dr. Blanford during 

 the visit of the Boundary Commission (vide infra). Received in exchange 

 from the Indian Museum, Calcutta. [74. 4, 23, 1-325.] 



1344 birds from various i3arts of India. Presented. [98. 12. 12, 

 1-1344.] This was Dr. Blanford's private collection of birds formed 

 during his many years' service in India and Burma. An invaluable 

 present, supplementing the great Hume collection. 



This well-known naturalist and traveller was born in London on 

 October 7, 1832, and was educated at private schools. He studied at the 

 Royal School of Mines in 1852, receiving an Associateship, afterwards 

 ])assing a year at the Mining Academy at Freiburg, in Germany. In 

 October, 1855, he joined the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta, and 



