428 Zoology. 



Milner {Capt. W. H.). 



43 birds from Central and South America. Presented. [91. 10. U, 

 1-25 ; 95. 3. 10, 1-8 ; 96. 4. 3, 1-10.] 



Captain Milner was in command of one of the steamers of the Royal 

 Mail Steam Packet Company, and sometimes found time to shoot a few 

 sea-birds, such as Frigate-birds, etc., which he brought home in the freezing 

 chamber of the vessel. The Museum thus procured some interesting 

 species of birds suitable for mounting in the Public Gallery, and for 

 making into good skeletons. 



Miramende {Mr.). 



L' si)ecimens of Uratelornis chimiera, the Long-tailed Ground-IloUer 

 of Madagascar. Purchased. [1902. 12. 10, 1-2.] 



Mitchell (Sir Thomas). 



212 birds and 14 eggs from Australia. Presented. [39. 8. 2, 

 101-128 ; 42. 7. 4, 1-27 ; 47. 8. 14, 48-164.] 



Mochler-Ferryman {Capt. A. F.). 



20 specimens from Shonga, Upper Nigeria. Presented. [90. 3. 23, 

 1-20.] 



Cf. liis book, "Up the Niger," 1892, App. Birds, p. 310. 



Moloney (Sir Alfred), K.C.M.G. 



23 birds from the Gold Coast. Presented. [83. 10. 22, 1-23.] 



5 birds from Lagos. Presented. [90. 2. 7, 1-5.] 



Sir Alfred Moloney was successively Secretary to the Gold Coast, 

 Administrator of the Gambia, and afterwards of Lagos, and took great 

 interest in the natural history of the dependencies over which he ruled. 

 He also made a good collection of Senegambian birds for Captain Shelley ; 

 this has passed with the Shelley collection into the British Museum. 



Cf. " Who's Who," 1904, p. 1075. 



Monteiro (Joachim J.). 



179 birds from Angola and Benguela. [73. 12. 10, 1-179.] 

 Monteiro was a great personal friend of my own, and he was one of 

 the most clever and amiable men I have ever met. His wife, who was 

 an accomplished musician, was also a born naturalist and an excellent 

 collector, and shared with her husband all the difficulties and discomforts 

 connected with a life in the wilds of Africa. Monteiro was one of the 

 first of our British naturalists to visit Angola, and his collections were 

 described by Dr. Hartlaub in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society 

 for 1860, pp. 109-112, pi. clxi. ; 1865, pp. 86-96, pis. iv.-vi. ; cf. also 

 Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1870, pp. 142-150, pi. xiii. ; and the 'Ibis' for 1862, 

 pp. 333-342, pi. xi. There were many new forms, and for a long time ^lon- 

 teiro was unwilling to part with his collection ; but in 1873 he gelded to 

 my entreaties and offered it to the Trustees, whereby the Museum became 

 possessed of the types of many interesting species : Ortygometra ango- 

 hnsis, Hartl. ( = Crecopsis egregia, Peters ; cf. Sharpe, Cat. B., xxiii., p. 81), 

 Otis pidurata, Hartl. ( = Heterotetrax ruppelli, Wahlberg ; cf. Sharpe, 

 t.c, p. 29), llhinoptilus bisignatus, Asturinula meridionalis, Lophoceros 

 monteiri (Hartl.), Toccus elegans, Hartl. ( = Lophoceros elegans, Grant, 

 Cat. B., xvii., p. 415), Upwpa decorata, Hartl. ( = C^. africana, Bechst. ; 

 cf. Salvin, Cat. B., xvi., p. 14), Caprimidgus fidviventris, Hartl., Hirundo 

 monteiri, Hartl., Flatysteira albifrons, Sharpe, Muscicapa lugens, Hartl., 

 Pycnonotus tricolor, Hartl., Aethocichla gymnogenys, Hartl., Laniarius 



