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the Hon. East India Company," by Dr. Horsfield and Mr. F. Moore 

 (2 vols., 8vo, 1853-1858), the work being actually done by the latter. 

 Many famous naturalists helped to make this Museum celebrated, and 

 the collections of Sir Stamford Kaffies, Dr. Horsfield, Dr. McClelland, 

 Sir I\. Strachey, Dr. Cantor, Colonel Sykes, and other well-known men 

 were preserved in the India Museum, which was at first kept at the 

 House of the East India Company in Leadenhall Street. After the 

 Mutiny the collections were removed to Fife House in Whitehall, and 

 there I can remember seeing them when I began my work on the King- 

 fishers. I can well recollect my kiud reception by Mr. Frederic Moore, and 

 with what reverence I handled the Kingdshers of that ancient collection. 

 The Horsfieldian types have unfortunately nearly all perished, having 

 been imperfectly preserved, and during the removal of the collections from 

 Leadenhall Street to Fife House, although they were carefully packed, 

 mollis destroyed nearly the whole of them ; they are now in the British 

 Museum, but are nearly all devoid of feathers. The destruction of these 

 valuable specimens has always been a source of great grief to Mr. Moore. 



The preservation of birds in the older days was not much considered, 

 and the specimens obtained by Colonel Sykes and Dr. McClelland were all 

 preserved in a rough and ready manner, so that they have not withstood 

 the ravages of time. Sir Stamford Raffles does not ajjpear to have made 

 many skins, but to have chiefly presented coloured drawings of the species 

 lie described. 



Among the Javanese birds of Horsfield's collecting were the types of 

 the following species : — Hypotriorchis severus, Spizaetus Umnaetus, Astur 

 soJoensis, Polioaetus ichthyaetus, Olaucidium castanopferum, Scops lempiji, 

 S. rufescens, Bubo orientalis, Ketupa ketupa, Phodihis hadim, Syrnium 

 seloputo, Gollocalia linchi, Macropteryx klecho, Caprimulgus macmrus, 

 C. affinis, Eurylasmus javanicus, Carcineutes jiulchellus, Halcyon melan- 

 opterus (= //. cyaniventris), Alcedo meninUng, A. biru {= A. beryllina), 

 Hemipus obscurus, Buchanga cineracea, Lanius bentet, Graucalus javensis, 

 Brachypteryx montana, Oreocichia varia, Merula javanica, Myiophoneus 

 flavirostris, Arrenga cyanea, Turdinus sepiarius, Timelia pileata, Fomato- 

 rhinus montanus, Pycnonotus bimacidatus, JPycnonotus simjilex, H. & M. 

 (= F. plumosus), Fycnonotus analis (Horsf.), BubiguJa dispar, Criniger 

 gidaris, lole maclellandl, Chlorojjsis viridis, C. javensis, Zosterops flava, 

 Z. javanica, ^githina scapularis, Oriolus xanthonotus, Copsychus 

 amoenus, Siphia hanyumas, Stoparola indigo, Orthotomus sepium, Frinia 

 faviiliaris, Cettia montana, Mirafra javanica, Corone enca, Phrenotrix 

 temia (= Crypso^'hina varians), Chotorhea javensis, XantJioliema australis, 

 Miglyptes tristis, Thriponax javensis, Chrysocolaptes strictus, Chrysonotus 

 tiga, Oecinus puniceus, Zanclostomus javanicus, Surnicidus luguhris, 

 Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, O. basalis, Phoenicophaus melanognathus 

 ( = Bhinococcyx curvirostris'),Arboricola orientalis, Heteropygia acuminata, 

 Scolopax saturata, Ardeola speciosa, Dendrocygna arciiata, and D. 

 javanica. 



The above list has been taken from Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue 

 and my " Hand-list of Birds," but there may still be a few of Horsfield's 

 types which have escaped my notice. A certain number came into the 

 Museum, but many were eaten up by moth. 



Of Raffles' types many were represented by actual specimens as well 

 as by drawings, and these came with the rest of the collection from the 

 East India Company's Museum. It is interesting to see from the intro- 

 ductory remarks to Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue that the early 

 collections made by Horsfield were presented by Raffles, as Lieutenant- 



