Birds. 395 



Ince {Mrs.). 



42 birds, priuciixally from China. Presented. [82. 12. 10, 1-12.] 

 Capt. luce saw some service iu China, and was, so I have been 

 informed, a friend of John Eeeves, who gave so many specimens to the 

 Museum. Gould also knew him, and named a Paradise Flycatcher after 

 him — Muscipeta incei, from Shanghai. The type of this species was 

 given by Gould to the India Museum (t/. Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co., 

 i., p. 392). In the "Catalogue "a reference is made to the original de- 

 scription as " Gould, P.Z.S., 1852," but the bird was never described 

 in the " Proceedings." Capt. Ince seems to have been a friend of 

 MacGillivray's, as among the birds presented by liis widow was the type 

 of Nectarinia australis, Gould, which we may presume was given to 

 Capt. Ince by MacGillivray or by Gould. 



India, Secretary of State for. 



tiee India Museum. 



India Museum, Calcutta. 



See also Anderson, John ; Blanford, W. T. 

 200 birds from Yun-nan and Upper Burma, collected by Dr. John 

 Anderson. Presented. [76. 4. 7, 1-200.] 



418 specimens from Yarkand. Exchanged. [91. 7. 22, 1-418.] 

 This was a set of the duplicates of the collection obtained by the 

 second Yarkand Mission under Sir Douglas Forsyth. The collection was 

 fully catalogued by me in the report published by the India Office. To 

 this publication Mr. Hume presented several beautiful plates which he 

 had had drawn for his projected *' Birds of India." 



A specimen of Nyroca baeri from Bengal. [98. 4. 18, 1.] 



45 birds in spirits. Presented. [99. 4. 16, 1-17 ; 1900. 7. 5, 1-28.] 



India Museum, London. 



23 birds from India. Presented by the Hon. E. I. Co. [42. 11. 8, 

 7-29.] 



Mostly common species, but amongst the specimens was the type of 

 Ihidorhynchus struthersi. 



54 specimens from Shoa, collected by Sir W. Cornwallis Harris. 

 Presented by the Hon. E. I. Co. [45. 6. 6, 1-54.] 



A set of the birds obtained during the expedition to Shoa promoted 

 by the Hon. E. India Co. 



14 specimens from the Himalayas (mostly Hodgsonian specimens). 

 Presented by the Hon. E. I. Co. [56. 5. 21, 7-20.] 



6015 specimens from various parts of the Indian Empire. Presented 

 by the Secretary of State for India. [60. 4. 16, 1-584 ; 79. 11. 28, 

 1-700 ; 80. 1. 1, 1-4731.] 



The transference of part of the India Museum collection to the British 

 Museum began in 1860, but the final incorporation of the old Company's 

 collection took place in 1880 (vide infra). 



172 birds from Shoa, collected by Sir W. Cornwallis Harris, [61. 2. 5, 

 1-34 ; 61. 5. 8, 1-138.] Presented by the Secretary of State for India. 



In this collection was the type of DienemelUa dienemelU (Riipp. ex 

 Horsf.). 



The above records chronicle the dispersal of the celebrated Museum of 

 the old East India Company, and its incorporation in the National 

 Collection. The history of the bird-collection is epitomised in the 

 " Introductory Remarks " to the " Catalogue of Birds in the Museum of 



