354 Zoology. 



Fortnum (C. D. E.). 



39 birds from South Australia. [42. 6. 29, 17-55.] 



Poster (W.). 



14 birds from Paraguay. Presented. [1902. 3. 24, 1-14.] 



253 birds and 312 eggs from Sapucay, Paraguay. Purchased. [1903. 



12. 22, 1-114; 1903. 12. 23, 1-139 ; 1904. 7. 26, 1-312.] 



906 birds and 745 nests and eggs from Paraguay. Purchased. [1905. 



10. 12, 1-906 ; 1905. 10. 13, 1-745.] 



Pothergill {Major H.). 



A skeleton of Cloepliaga magellanica. [98. 4. 7, 1.] 



A specimen of Crossoptilum manchuricum. [98. 4. 14, 1.] 



A young example of a Magellanic Goose {Chloephaga magellanica), 



died in captivity. Presented. [1904. 7. 4, 1.] 



Fotheringham (J.). 



20 birds from Darjiling. Presented. [77. 4. 21, 1-20.] 



Francis (H. F.). 



9 birds from the Transvaal. Presented. [96. 2. 13, 1-9] (c/. W, L. 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1899, pp. 111-115). 



Frank (G. A.). 



143 specimens of skins and skeletons of birds from various localities. 

 Purchased. [45. 6. 3, 1-5; 45. 7. 16, 1-4; 46. 5. 5, 6-36; 49. 3. 2, 

 41-67 ; m. 2. 13, 1-13 ; 72. 2. 10, 1-23 ; 72. 10. 4, 7-46.] 



Frank was a natural history agent in Amsterdam, from whom the 

 Museum received many fine Mammalia and Birds. For years he received 

 the duplicates from the Leyden Museum, and offered the best of these 

 to the Trustees until the time when Count Turati began forming his 

 splendid Museum at Milan, when most of the birds were sold to him by 

 Frank, as the Count gave prices which no public Museum could afford. 



Frank (G. A., jun.). 



35 birds from the Comoro Islands. Purchased. [88. 5. 4, 1-35.] 



177 birds' skins and specimens in spirit, from Liberia. [99. 7. 1, 

 1-162 ; 99. 8. 10, 23-37.] 



A son of the above, who succeeded to his father's business, which was 

 transferred to London. After the death of Professor Schlegel, the 

 explorations of the Dutch Government in their East Indian Colonies 

 gradually ceased, and there were no more duplicates fi'om the Leyden 

 Museum for disposal to our Museum. 



Frank bought up many of the duplicates of the Humblot collection 

 from the Comoro Islands {cf. Milne-Edwards and Oustalet, " Etudes sur 

 les Mammiferes et les Oiseaux des lies Comores," Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) 

 X., pp. 211-297, pis. iv.-ix. 1889), and the set purchased from him in 1888 

 contained the new genus JJumhlotia and twelve species unrepresented in 

 the national collection. Many duplicate skins and birds in spirits were 

 purchased from Dr. Biittikofer's Liberian collection through Frank. 



Fraser (Louis). 



300 sjiecimens of birds, skeletons, and eggs from Tunis. Purchased. 

 [46. 10. 30, 1-147 ; 47. 3. 26, 6-28 ; 47. 10.^21-10, 14-21, 25-53 ; 48. 1. 

 10, 1-22.] 



