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Grays, and in 1853 he sent a large collection of birds from Nepal and 

 Tibet to the E. I. Company's Museum, but, in 1859, he appears to have 

 once more determined to send his collections to the British Museum. 



When the India Museum was broken up in 1881 and its zoological 

 contents were merged in the British Museum, the whole of the 

 Hodgsonian series was once more united under one roof, and great praise 

 is due to Mr. F. Moore for having preserved the original labels on those 

 specimens which had been under his charge. Two Catalogues of the 

 Hodgson collection were published by the Trustees, one in 1846, and a 

 second in 1863. 



Besides the article in the " Dictionary of National Biography," a life 

 of Hodgson has been written by Sir William Hunter. 



Gf. also ' Ibis,' 1894, pp. 580, 581. 



Holboell {Governor). 



See also Stevens, S. 



5 birds and 31 eggs from Greenland. Purchased. [50. 11. 9, 23-58.] . 



Holboell was the Danish Governor of South Greenland, and took great 

 interest in natural history. He discovered the intermediate race 

 between the typical Gyr-Falcon of Greenland and that of Iceland, and 

 named it Falco arcticus. As this name was preoccupied, I named the 

 bird Hierofaho holhoelli in his honour. The large Red-poll (Cannnhina 

 holboelli), from Scandinavia and Siberia, is also named after him. The 

 latter species has occurred occasionally in England. 



Holden (W. L.). 



7 birds from Paraguay. Presented. [1904. 11. 30, 1-7.] 



Holland (Arthur H.). 



789 birds and eggs from Argentina. Purchased. [97. 11. 14, 1-224; 

 98. 3. 25, 1-565.] 



Mr. Holland is an energetic young naturalist who has devoted much 

 attention to the ornithology of the Argentine Republic, on which subject 

 he has pubUshed; some interesting papers (Ibis, 1890, pp. 424-428 ; 

 1891, pp. 16-20; 1892, pp. 193-214; 1893, pp. 467-469; 1895, pp. 213- 

 217 ; 1896, pp. 315-318). 



His collection of eggs, 565 in number, has proved to be of the utmost 

 value to the Museum, as can be seen in the published volumes of the 

 " Catalogue of Eggs." Among the birds was the type of Hapalocercus 

 hoUandi, Sclater, Ibis, 1896, p. 317. 



Hoist (P. A.). 



44 birds from Central Asia, of which 7 were new to the collection. 

 Purchased. [83. 4. 3, 1-37 ; 83. 5. 23, 1-7.] 



Duplicates from the Severtzoff and Russow collections. Also some 

 interesting species from the Caucasus. 



9 birds from Sweden. Purchased. [84. 7. 29, 1-9.] 



50 birds from Russia, Siberia, Turkestan, and other parts of Central 

 Asia, with 3 species new to the collection. [84. 9. 25. 1-20 ; 86. 3. 31, 

 1-30.] 



Hoist was a young Swedish collector who settled in England for a time 

 as an agent, and from whom the Museum purchased several interesting 

 specimens. He afterwards travelled in the East for Henry Seebohm, and 

 visited the Volcano Islands, the Liu Kiu Islands, and the Bonin group, 

 as well as Formosa. Here he discovered a beautiful new Tit {Parus holsti) 

 named after him by Seebohm (Ibis, 1995, pi. vi.). 



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