Birds, 353 



cliathamica, Forbes, Nature, vol. xlvi., p. 252, 1892, — C. chathamensis, 

 Rothschild, P.Z.S., 1891, p. 312, pi. xxviii.). 



133 skins and bones of birds from the Chatham Islands. Puichased. 

 [92. 10. 31, 1-21; 93. 1. 30, 1-35-78; 93. 6. 24, 1-16; 93. 12. 31, 1-6; 

 94. 4. 18, 1-5 ; 94. 5. 1, 1-60.] 



While on the Chatham Islands a series of bones of JDiaphorapteryx 

 and other siiecimeus of extinct forms of birds were procured and described 

 by Dr. Forbes, as well as examples of Cabalus modestus, the peculiar Uail 

 of the islands, now believed to be extinct (cf. his paper on " The Birds of 

 the Chatham Islands," Ibis, 1893, pp. 521-546, pis. xiv., xv.). 



After his adventurous explorations in the Tenimber Islands and other 

 Malayan and Papuan Islands, Dr. Forbes was for some years Director 

 of the Museum at Christchurch, New Zealand, and shortly after his return 

 to England he was appointed Director of Museums at Liverpool, where 

 he has done some excellent work. A recently published volume on the 

 Zoology of Sokotra gives an account of the expedition to that island, 

 which he made in company with Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



{Cf. Forbes, " A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago," 

 1885, where a complete account of his early labours is published ; cf. also 

 Nicholson, F., on the birds collected by Mr. H. 0. Forbes in the Island 

 of Java, Ibis, 1881, pp. 139-156 ; in Sumatra, Ibis, 1882, pp. 51-65, 

 66-71 ; 1883, pp. 235-257, pi. x.). 



Forbes (W. A.). 



426 specimens from Nigeria (vide infra), and his collection of Weaver- 

 birds (Ploceidie), eight species being new to the collection. Presented 

 by his executors. [84. 1. 10, 1-426.] 



Forbes was the successor of Garrod as Prosector to the Zoological 

 Society, and was an equally brilliant man. After a successful expedition 

 to Pernambuco (cf. " Ibis," 1881, pp. 312-362), he made a voyage to the 

 Niger, where he unfortunately died — a grievous loss to science (cf. Shelley, 

 " Ibis," 1883, pp. 538-562 ; ^gialitis forlesi, n.sp., pi. xiv.). Forbes' 

 last journal is published m the " Ibis " for 1883, pp. 491-537 ; 1884, 

 pp. 119-120.] His collection he bequeathed to the Nation. His Per- 

 nambuco collections are also in the Museum, having been given by 

 Forbes to Dr. Sclater and to Messrs. Salvin and Godman. A complete 

 collection of his memoirs, edited by Mr. F, E. Beddard, with an account 

 of his life by Dr. P. L. Sclater, was issued in 1885. 



Foreign Office. 



See N. American BotrNDARV Commission (p. 316). 



Foresman (A.). 



21 birds from the Transvaal. Presented. [69. 10. 7, 1-21.] 



Forrer (A.). 



24 birds, including three species new to the collection, from Van- 

 couver Island and California. [80. 5. 5, 1-24.] 



Mr. Forrer was a very good collector who travelled in Western North 

 America, Western Mexico, and also visited the Tres Marias Islands. The 

 first series of his Mexican collections was purchased by Dr. F. D. Godman, 

 and is described by Messrs. Salvin and Godman in the " Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana," where Chrysomitris forreri is named after him. 



Forrester (T. W.). 



19 birds from Spain and other localities. Presented. [1904. 8. 8, 1-19.] 



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