382 Zoology. 



Snipe (GaUinago sahinei), and the Eed-breasted Snipe {Macror'ham'phus 

 griseus), etc. 



29 Accipitres from South Queensland, collected by Mr. J. Bell. 

 Presented. [1901. 12. 8, 1-20; 1902. 7. 31, 1-9.] 



2 specimens of Willow Grouse from the Altai Mts., procured by- 

 Prince Demidoff. Presented. [1902. 7. 31, 10, 11.] 



Mr. Harting is one of the best-known British naturalists, and there is 

 probably no one living who can so well remember the days before 

 enclosure had done away with the natural harbours on the south coast, 

 where birds were plentiful in places now dominated by the plough. His 

 reminiscences, like my own, carry him back to the palmy days of Pagham 

 Harbour, when some fine collecting was to be done on the mud-flats, and 

 a number of specimens obtained by him in his early life are in the 

 Museum. He was for many years the best authority on Wading Birds, 

 and made a fine collection of Charadriidge, which was ultimately acquired 

 by the late Mr. Henry Seebohm, who made it the basis of his work on 

 the " Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidm." With the 

 Seebohm bequest the whole of this celebrated collection of Waders was 

 added to the national collection. Mr. Harting has published many 

 popular books on natural history, and has done much to sj^read the love 

 of the study of birds among the people. 



Harvey (W.). 



160 birds from Malacca. Presented. [65. 6. 30, 1-160.] 

 These birds, prepared in the usual Malay type of skins, were 

 without particulars of sex or date, and being now replaced by Mr. Hume's 

 beautiful series, have mostly passed into the duplicates. 



Harvie-Brown (J. A.). 



See also Feilden, Colonel H. W. 

 11 birds from Dunipace, Larbcrt, N.B. Presented. [92. 12. 19, 1-11.] 



Hauxwell (J.). 



Was an old comi^anion of H. W. Bates, and settled in Upper Ama- 

 zonia. He travelled on the Ucayali River in the early fifties, and made 

 a large collection, which was exhibited to the Zoological Society by 

 Gould iu May 1855 (P.Z.S., 1855, pp. 77, 78). In 1867, after a long 

 period of inaction, he again forwarded a collection from Pebas, a 

 town on the north bank of the River Amazon. This was described 

 by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in the " Proceedings " for 1867 (pp. 977- 

 981, pi. xlv.), when four new species of birds were characterised. 

 The bulk of the collection passed into the hands of Messrs. Salvin and 

 Godman and Dr. Sclater, but a few were purchased by the British 

 Museum. [See Higgins.] Out of a later consignment sent to Mr. W^hiteley 

 from Samiiia, some specimens were acquired for Dr. F. D. Godman. 

 In Professor James Orton's book, "The Andes and the Amazon," 

 he mentions his meeting with Hauxwell at Pebas, where he was com- 

 fortably established and received the traveller with great hospitality. 

 Pebas is situated on a high clay bluff, beside the Ambiyacu, a mile above 

 its entrance into the Maraiion. 



Haviland {Drs. H, A. and G. D.). 



32 birds from Mt. Kina Balu in N.W. Borneo. Presented. [93. 6. 

 10, 1-32.] 



Two species (Merula seebohmi and Hyloterpe hypoxantha) were new 

 to the Museum. 



