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from the Lower Congo; these were described by us conjointly in the 

 " Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France," I., pp. 36-53, 300-14, II., 

 470-81, III., 73-80. Among the remarkable noveltius were Scotoi^elia 

 hoiivicri, Lopliotriorchis lucaiii, Psalidoprocne j^etiti, etc. Most of the 

 types from these collections are in the Bridsh Museum, but my descriptions 

 of a certain number of new species were taken by Bouvier to Paris 

 after one of his visits to London, and published in his own name, a 

 proceeding I should not have resented, if the typical specimens from which 

 the diagnoses were derived had been sold, according to promise, to the 

 British Museum. This unfortunately was not the case, and the types 

 of some of them, such as Cisticola laudame, exist somewhere to further 

 puzzle ornithologists, until their validity shall be established. 



Bower (Capt. T. H. Bowyer). 



4 specimens from Queensland. Presented. [85. 11. 19, 1-4.] 

 192 specimens from N.W. AustraUa. Presented. [87, 5. 2, 1-192.] 

 Capt. Bowyer Bower presented the collection made by his son in the 

 Derby district of Northern Australia. Dr. E. P. Eamsay, the Director of 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney, published a list of the Derby collection 

 [Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2) II., pp. 165-73.] The young naturalist, 

 whom I knew personally, started in hopes of achieving great ornithological 

 results, and took with him as assistant Mr. Walter Burton, a first-rate 

 taxidermist. After a successful commencement, Mr. Bowyer Bower died 

 from fever, and Mr. Burton had the mournful task of bringing back to his 

 parents the body of the brave young explorer. The collection was 

 beautifully prepared, and, when presented by his father, proved a very 

 valuable acquisition to the Museum. {Cf. Ibis, 1887, p. 479.) 



Bowring {Sir J.). 



31 birds from Egypt. Presented. [41. 1. 14, 58-88.] 

 Cf. Diet. Nat. Biogr., vi., pp. 76-80. 



Bradshaw (Dr.). 



14 specimens from the neighbourhood of Upington, Orange Eiver. 

 Presented. [82. 9. 21, 1-14.] 



See also Davis and Sopek. 



During his furlough in England I met Dr. Bradshaw several times. 

 He was then a medical officer in the Frontier Police Force, stationed at 

 Upington in the north of Cape Colony, and he was suffering from some 

 affection of the lower larynx. He had to rejoin in South Africa just as 

 he was beginning to feel better, and died, as he had himself predicted to 

 me, very shortly after. 



Not only was Dr. Bradshaw an excellent observer, but no man ever 

 made better skins of birds. He had been through Matabeleland to the 

 Zambesi, and had visited the Victoria Falls. On this expedition he 

 made a fine collection of birds, which he seems to have consigned to a 

 London firm for disposal. Luckily the firm appealed to the Museum, and 

 we were able to acquire a series of Dr. Bradshaw's specimens, and Capt. 

 Shelley bought the remainder, so that the early collections of this 

 excellent naturalist are now in the British Museum. Unfortunately the 

 collection was never labelled, and was sold as from the Zambesi River. 

 Dr. Bradshaw, however, told me that scarcely any sjiecimens were 

 obtained on the river itself, and that his series of birds was almost with- 

 out exception from the Makalaka country. 



He presented some specimens to the Cape Museum, and a few from 



