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during his term of service worked in various districts of India and Burma, 

 Bengal and Orissa (1855-60), Trichinopoly, Madras (July to September, 

 1859), Pegu (1860-2). Here it was that Dr. Blanford first besan to 

 collect birds {Cf. "Ibis," 1870, p. 462), in the Bombay Presidency 

 (1862-5), and in the Central Provinces (1865-7). In the latter part of 

 1867 he was attached as Zoologist to the Abyssinian Expedition, and 

 went to Magdala with the army. He afterwards made an excursion 

 into Bogos Land with Mr. W. Jesse, the expedition lasting till August 

 1868, and for more than a year he was engaged in Calcutta and in 

 London in working out his collections (c/. his "Geology and Zoology of 

 Abyssinia," 1870). 



From 1869-71 he was stationed in the Central Provinces, principally 

 in the Godavery Valley {cf. J.A.S.Beng., xxxviii., pp. 164-91, 1869), 

 and in the last-named year and 1872 he was attached to the Perso- 

 Baluch Boundary Commission, and travelled through Persia (cf. " Eastern 

 Persia : An account of Journeys of the Persian Boundary Commission, 

 1870-71-72 "). This book was prepared during furlough from 1872-4 

 and published in 1876. An expedition to Sikhim with Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 {q.v.) was undertaken in 1872, and an account of it given in the " Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" (xli., pp. 41-73), when Mordi- 

 fringilla ruficoUis and Otocorys ehuesi were described as new species. 

 He was at work in Sind and the desert country from 1874-7 {cf. Stray 

 Feathers, vii., pp. 99-101, 526, 527, 1878), and was on duty at the 

 Survey Office in Calcutta from 1877 to 1879. After a furlough till 1881, 

 he visited the North- West frontier, Quetta to Dehra Ghazi Khan, in 

 1881-2, and retired from the Indian Service at the end of the latter year. 

 After his return to England his principal work was the editing of the 

 " Fauna of British India," of which sixteen volumes have appeared, and 

 of these he himself has written the volume on Mammalia and Vols. III. 

 and IV. of the Birds. He was awarded one of the Poyal Society's 

 Medals in 1901. 



Blewitt (F. R.). 



Collected in Central India. Many birds and eggs are in the Hume 

 collection from Saugor and Kaipur. 



Blewitt (W.). 



His collections of birds and eggs from the Hansi district in the Punjab 

 are in the Hume collection. 



Blundell (H. Weld), and Lovat (Lord). 



416 birds from South Abyssinia. Presented by the above-named 

 travellers. [1900. 1. 3, 1-416.] 



16 new species were described by them and by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, 

 who has written an account of the collection in the " Ibis " for 1900 

 (pp. 115-178, 304-387, pi. ii.-vi.). 



Blyth (Edward). 



6 birds from the neighbourhood of Calcutta. Presented. [44. 3. 4, 

 1-6.] 



11 birds from Tenasserim and Burma. Presented. [62. 6. 29, 1-11.] 

 A man of enormous knowledge, and one of the cleverest all-round 

 naturalists of the Victorian era. His edition of Cuvier's " Kegnc Animal " 

 is quite one of the best, as is also his edition of White's "Selborne." 

 He was appointed Curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta in 1841, 

 and worked there incessantly, without any furlough, for nearly twent}'- 



