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Harris {Sir W. Cornwallis). 



Sir Cornwallis Harris, the author of the " Highlands of Ethiopia," and 

 other works on the game and wild animals of Southern Africa, accom- 

 panied the British Expedition to Shoa in Abyssinia, and made a collection 

 of birds, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Ankober and Angolalla. These 

 collections passed into the India Museum, and were all registered as from 

 " Abyssinia " by Messrs. Horsfield and Moore in the " Catalogue of the 

 Birds in the Museum ot the East India Company." Fortunately the 

 original labels were not detached from the specimens in the India 

 Museum, so that the record of locality was not lost ; but all the birds 

 transferred to the British Museum had, after the fashion of those times, 

 the labels carefully removed, and a card-board ticket marked " Abyssinia " 

 attached ! {Cf, Diet. Nat. Biogr., xxv., p. 28.) 

 See India Museum. 



Harrison {Colonel J. J.). 



31 birds from Somali Land. Presented. [1901. 3. 15, 1-31.] 

 Colonel Harrison made an expedition, in company with Mr. A. E. Butter, 

 Captain Powell Cotton and Mr. W. F. Whitehouse, through Somali Land 

 to Lakes Eudolf and Baringo. He made a good collection of birds, which 

 was described by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in the ' Ibis ' for 1901 (pp. 278-299, 

 pi. vii.). A species of Finch-Lark described as Pyrrhulauda harrisoni 

 turned out to be P. signata. Oust. The specimens presented by Colonel 

 Harrison were all of great interest to the Museum. 



45 birds from the White Nile district. Presented. [1905. 2. 3, 1-45.] 



Hart (H. Chichester). 



See Lords of the Treasury. 

 Mr. Hart was the naturalist on board the Discovery during Sir George 

 Nares' expedition towards the North Pole. He has given an account of 

 his experiences in a paper published in the ' Zoologist' for 1880 (pp. 121- 

 129, 204-214). He has also written a book on the Fauna and Flora of 

 Sinai, Arabia Petra^a, etc. (1891). 



Hartert (Ernst). 



98 birds from East Prussia and other parts of Germany. Keceived in 

 exchange. [92. 4. 11, 1-98.] 



Dr. Hartert is the Director of the Hon. Walter Rothschild's Museum 

 at Tring, and is one of the most energetic of modern naturalists. His 

 experiences in Eastern Prussia have been described in the ' Ibis ' for 

 1892 (pp. 353-372, 504-522), and the account of his travels in many 

 foreign lands is given in his memoir, " Aus den Wanderjahren eines Natur- 

 forschers," first published in the ' Novitates Zoologicaj ' for 1901 (pp. 221- 

 355, 383-39, pis. xii.-xvii.), and 1902 (pp. 141-1(30, 193-339, pis. 1-5), 

 and afterwards as a separate work. 



Harting (J. Edmund). 



23 birds from Madagascar, collected by the Piev. W. Deans Cowan. 

 Purchased. [80. 5. 1, 1-23.] 



Among many interesting species was the type of Oxylahes cinereiceps, 

 Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1881, p. 197. 



80 mounted specimens of British birds. Purchased. [73. 11. 17, 17- 

 22 ; 83. 11. 10, 1-74.] 



Among these were several authentic examples of rare birds killed in 

 Great Britain, among them being three specimens of the so-called Sabine's 



