Birds. 409 



Lansdell {Bev. Dr.). 

 See Gerrard, E. 

 Dr. Lansdell brought back from Kashmir and Tibet a small collection 

 of birds, containing some species of interest to the Museum (c/. his book 

 on " Russian Central Asia," 1885). 



Larkin (Colonel Edgae). 



9 birds from Upper Egypt. Presented. [93. 7. 12, 1-9.] 



La Touche (J. D.). 



85 nests of birds from N. W. Fohkien. Presented. [99. 2. 9, 1-76 ; 

 99. 2. 21, 1-9.] 



57 birds and eggs from Kuatun. Presented. [99. 8. 16, 1-29 ; 1901. 

 1. 20, 1-28.] 



2 birds from Formosa and Chiukiang, including one species new to the 

 collection. Presented. [1905. 6. 13, 1-2.] 



Mr. La Touche is an energetic collector of birds, and especially of 

 eggs, in China, and has presented a very interesting series to the 

 Museum [c/. Ibis, 1887, pp. 469, 470; 1892, pp. 400-430, 477-503; 

 1895, p. 305 ; 1896, pp. 489-495 ; 1897, pp. 138, 169-176, pi. iv., 600-610 ; 

 1898, pp. 328-333, 356-373; 1899, pp. 169-210, 400-431; 1900, pp. 

 34-51 ; Bull. B.O.C., vii., p. 37 (1897) ; viii., p. 9 (1898)]. 



Laugier de Chartreuse (Baron). 



309 specimens from his collection. Purchased. [37. 6. 10, 372-681.] 

 Baron Laugier was coadjutor with Temminck in the " Planches 

 Coloriees." The sale of his collection took place in Paris in 1837, and 

 a copy of the Catalogue in the British Museum bears the following note : 

 " La vente publique de cette collection se fera au mois de juin 1837. 

 Le jour en sera fixe ulterieurement par les journaux jusqu'a cette epoque. 

 On traiterait a I'amiable de la totalite." This sale-catalogue was printed 

 at Aries and sent to Dr. J. E. Gray, and we are further informed : " La 

 rapidite avec laquelle a ete fait ce travail, et I'absence du proprie'taire, 

 n'ont pas permis de suivre d'autre classification que celle des armoires de la 

 galerie." Unfortunately no attempt seems to have been made at the time 

 to identify any of the specimens described and figured in the " Planches 

 Coloriees," and many of them have since been given away as duplicates. 



Layard (Edgar Leopold), G.M.G. 



Ste also HiGGiNS, T. ; Tristram, Canon. 

 27 eggs from Ceylon. Presented. [53. 12. 6, 1-27.] 

 106 eggs from South Africa. Presented. [69. 10. 8, 1-106.] 

 Mr. Layard was an ornithologist from his youth, and when! a civil 

 servant in Ceylon, where he served from 1846 to 1855, he did excellent 

 work, as will be seen by his papers in the second series of the " Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History " (vols. xii. (1853), pp. 97-107, 165- 

 176, 262-272 ; xiu. (1854), pp. 123-131, 212-218, 257-264, 446-453 ; 

 xiv. (1854), pp. 57-64, 105-115, 264-272). 



Layard has given the following account of his Ceylonese days in 

 Legge's "Birds of Ceylon" (Introduction, p. ix.) : "I arrived in Ceylon 

 in March 1846, and for some time, having no employment, amused my 

 leisure in collecting for my more than friend. Dr. Templeton, who had 

 nursed me through a dangerous illness, and in whom I found a congenial 

 spirit. My chief attractions there were the glorious Lepidoptera of the 

 island ; but I always carried a light single-barrelled gun in a strap on my 



