Birds. 403 



Jayakar {Surgeon-General A. S.). 



174 birds from Muscat. Presented. [88. 10. 13, 1-13 ; 91. 2. 1, 1-56 ; 

 98. 5. 16, 1-75 ; 99. 2. 6, 1-30.] 



The first collection made by Dr. Jayakar was presented by Colonel 

 Miles, the Governor of Muscat, to the Museum, which has received several 

 subsequent consignments of valuable birds from Dr. Jayakar himself. I 

 described the original collection in the "Ibis" for 1886 (pp. 162-168, 

 pi. vi.), where a new Eagle-Owl (Bubo mihsi) was figured. A new Bee- 

 eater (Merops muscatensis, Sharpe) was figured by Mr. H. E. Dresser in. 

 his " Monograph of the Bee-eaters " (pi. 10). 



Jerdon (T. C). 



147 birds from various parts of India. Presented. [45. 1. 10, 1-57 ; 

 46. 4. 30, 1-51 ; 46. 11. 9, ]6-49; 47. 3. 18, 11-15.] 



Most of Dr. Jerdou's specimens were registered and published as from 

 " Madras." This may be true as regards the Presidency from which they 

 came, but it is certaiu that his early collections were made in the Nilghiri 

 Hills, though he also travelled through the Carnatic, the Northern Circars, 

 the Wynaad, etc. 



Most of the types of his new species appear to have been presented to 

 the Museum, but not all. I have discovered the following types 

 in the collection : — Ochromela nigrorufa, Turdulus ivardi, Merula 

 simillima, Hypsipetes nilghiriensis, Frinia sylvatica, Acrocephalus 

 agricola, Pycnonotus xantholxma, Malacocercus orienfalis (= Grateropus 

 canorus), Megalurus striatus (= Chmtornis Jocustelloides), Mirafra 

 erythroptera, M. affinis, M. hayi (= Spizalauda deva), Dendrocopus 

 ellioti (= Chrysocolaptes festivus), Gecimis chlorigaster, Bhopodytes 

 viridirostris, Osmotreron bicincta, Crocopus chlorigaster, Lophophorus 

 sdateri, Tragopan hlythi. 



The types of Muscicapula superciliaris, Munia pedoralis, Anthus 

 similis, Ducula cuprea, lyngipicus hardwickei, Micropternus gidaris, 

 Thriponax hodgsoni, and Macrorhamphus semipahnatus do not 

 appear to have come to the Museum. One of the types of Hirundo 

 tytleri was given by Jerdon to Gould, and by the latter to Seebohm 

 [98. 10. 20, 187] . 



17 birds from Upper Burma. Presented. [62. 1. 17, 12-28.] 



Included the types of Crypsirldna cucullata, Pericrocotus albifrons, 

 Pyciionotus blanfordi, Pyctorhis altirostris, Orthotomus coro7iatus, Sturnia 

 nemoricola, and >S. burmanica. These species were described by Blyth 

 (J.A.S. Beng., xxxi., p. 342, 1862) and by Jerdon himself (P.Z.S., 

 1861, p. 199, 1862, p. 19). 



Jerdon was only sixty-one years of age when he died, and I knew him 

 very well after his retirement from India, He entered the service of the 

 Hon. East India Company in 1835, and in 1869 he was a " Retired 

 Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals." His early work was done in 

 the Madras Presidency, but he afterwards visited other parts of the 

 Empire, discovered some new species in Sikhim and again in Assam and 

 Burma, receiving from the Government of India special facilities for 

 travel and collecting. His " Birds of India " was an epoch-making book, 

 and laid the foundation for the splendid work which was inaugurated by 

 Mr. Hume and his successors (cf. " Ibis," 1872, p. 342 ; Diet. Nat. Biogr., 

 xxix., p. 338). 



An excellent memoir of Jerdon and his work was published by his 

 old friend, Sir Walter Elliot, in the "Proceedings of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club." 



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