Birds. 375 



168 birds from various localities. Purchased. [68. 1. 27, 1-41 ; 69. 

 6. 4, 1-102 (Humming Birds) ; 69. 6. 9, 1-25 (Samoan birds).] 



In these purchases the Museum acquired from Mr. Gould several 

 valuable types of species which he was then figuring in his " Supplement " 

 to the " Birds of Australia," such as Malurus hypoleucus, Oerygone 

 personata, Cyclopsittacus coxeni, Geopsittacus occidentalis, and Cacomaniis 

 castaneiventr-is. 



150 specimens, mostly Humming Birds. Purchased. [72. 5. 28, 

 28-77.] 



The type of Otidiphaps nohilis is included in this purchase. 

 2 specimens of the Gyr-Falcon (Hierofalco qyrfalco) from Lapland 

 and West Finmark. Presented. [72. 11-8, 1-2.] 



These were two of Wolley's specimens lent for the purpose of 

 illustration in the "Birds of Great Britain." {Of. Newton, Ootheca 

 Wolleyana, p. 94.) 



20 specimens of Accipitres. Purchased. [72. 11. 8, 3-22]. 

 Some of these are the originals of the plates in the " Birds of Great 

 Britain." 



97 Accipitres from various localities. Presented. [73. 6. 6, 

 1-97]. 



Including the type of Pernis celehensis. 

 18 birds from Australia. Purchased. [75. 11. 8, 1-18]. 

 4 types of species, Strepera melanoptera, Oracticus cinereus, G. argenteus, 

 and 0. crissalis. 



100 specimens, principally from Europe and various parts of Asia. 

 Purchased. [76. 1. 7, 1-100]. 



6315 specimens of birds. Purchased. [81. 5. 1, 1-6315]. 

 This was Gould's private collection of birds, and was purchased by 

 the Trustees after his death. It contained a large number of interesting 

 species, 22 of which were new to the collection, as well as 59 types. 



1155 eggs. Purchased. [84. 10. 1, 1-268; 84. 11. 20, 269-579; 

 85. 1. 8, 580-1264; 85. 3. 1, 1265-1687; 85. 7. 21, 1688-1736]. 



This collection of eggs was purchased at the same date as the bird-skins, 

 but was not registered until some time after. It contained a number of 

 Australian eggs which were new to the collection. 



93 Humming Birds, with 8 types. Purchased. [88. 7. 25, 1-59 ; 

 90. 10. 14, 1-34]. 



This was the commencement of the registration of the Gould Collection 

 of Humming Birds, which was never completed. 



For Gould's biography, reference may be made to the memoir published 

 by me in my " Analytical Index to the Works of the late John Gould," in 

 1893, and to the " Dictionary of National Biography " (vol. xxii., p. 287). 

 Both these works give a full account of his labours, and especially of his 

 epoch-making journey to the Antipodes. His collection of Australian 

 birds " comprised examples of both sexes of nearly every knovra species, 

 1800 specimens in all, in various stages of plumage, each carefully 

 labelled with the scientific name and the name of the place where killed." 

 The expedition to Australia cost Gould £2000, and he offered the collection, 

 with its numbers of priceless types, to the Trustees of the British Museum 

 of that day, for £1000. The offer was declined, and Gould, in a fit of 

 chagrin, allowed Dr. Thomas Wilson of Philadelphia to buy the whole 

 collection for £1000 ; it has since been one of the greatest treasures of the 

 Academy of Natural Science in that town. (Of. Cassin's Eeport on the 

 Ornithological Collection, Proc. Acad. Philad., 1849, pp. 256-260 ; Witmer 

 Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, pp. 5-63.) 



