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of interestinp; specimens obtained from other collectors, such as those from 

 Palestine {Canon Tristram), Turkey {T. Rohson), Asia Minor (C. O. 

 Danford), China (Consul Sivinhoe), Natal (T. Ayres), and many others. 



To the ornithologist, however, there will always occur the interest 

 surrounding the British specimens which were acquired by the donors 

 during their school and college days, Mr. Salviu's being mostly collected 

 around Finchley and Hampstead, while Dr. Godman's were chiefly obtained 

 in the neighbourhood of Park Hatch, the family seat near Godalming, 



In this Paloaarctic collection were liliewise all the specimens obtained by 

 Dr. F. D. Godman and Mr. Percy Godman in the Azores, including the 

 types of Fyrrhula murina (cf. " Ibis," 1866, pp. 88, 109 ; also Dr. 

 Godman's work, " The Azores," 1870), as well as the series of birds 

 obtained in Madeira and the Canaries, with the types of the new Pigeon 

 discovered by Dr. Godman and named by him Columba hollei (cf, his 

 paper, " Notes on the Resident and Migratory Birds of Madeira and the 

 Canaries," "Ibis," 1872, pp. 156-177, 209-224). 



3 young specimens of the Australian Cassowary (CasMa)"M<s austral is). 

 Presented. [80. 3. 24, 1-3.] 



These formed part of the Cockerell Collection, which was presented in 

 the next year. 



1394 specimens from various parts of Australia. Presented. [81. 11. 7, 

 1-1315 ; 81. 13. 7, 1-38 ; 81. 12. 9, 1-41.] 



This was the celebrated Cockerell Collection. It was supposed to 

 contain several new species, but these invariably turned out to be well- 

 known forms from the Aru Islands, where Mr. Cockerell was said to 

 have been engaged in the pearl-fisheries. Whether this fiasco was due 

 to the representations of the collector himself or to his agent in 

 England will never be known, but the result was that the collection, 

 badly labelled in the first place, was purchased by Dr. Godman under the 

 idea that it contained several undescribed species of Australian birds, 

 whereas there was not a single new species to be described. The preser- 

 vation of the skins was excellent, and to the Museum, possessed of but few 

 Australian birds, its worth was inestimable. Most of the specimens were 

 undoubtedly from the neighbourhood of Brisbane and from Cape York. 



22 specimens from S.E. New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. Goldie. 

 [83. 4. 4, 1-22.] 



Contained the types of Paradisea decora and PachycephaJopsis fortis. 



6 specimens of birds from South America. Pi-esented. [83. 4. 21, 1-6.] 



These were Vireonidx presented for the purposes of the eighth volume 

 of the " Catalogue of Birds." Two species, Vireo gimdlacM and Ilylophilus 

 muscicapinus, were new to the collection. 



3191 eggs. Presented. [84. 9. 2, 1-826; 85. 1. 1, 827-2162; 

 85. 4. 20, 2163-3191.] 



This collection is a model one for all oologists. The volumes which 

 accompany the donation contain the records of the various e-vpeditions, 

 donations, and exchanges by which the collection was built up, and they 

 show the absolutely exact method adopted by the British school of 

 ornithologists in their early collecting days. This method was inaugurated 

 by John Wolley and Professor Newton, and can best be studied in the 

 two volumes of the "Ootheca WoUeyana," written by the last-named 

 naturalist. 



The above collection, presented jointly by Dr. F. D. Godman and Mr. 

 Osbert Salvin, must always remain of great historical interest to British 

 ornithologists, as it contains the eggs collected by them in their young 

 days, when it was possible to obtain the eggs of Ernberiza cirhis, Dendro- 



