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Pearson (Henry J.). 



13 specimens from Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, etc. Presented. [98. 8. 2, 

 1-13.] 



Included skins, spirit-sj^ecimens and nestlings of several rare Arctic 

 species, Limonites minuta, Anthiis cervinus, etc. 



18 egs;s of the Little Stint {Limonites minuta) from Waigats Island, 

 and Dolgoi Island, N. Kussia. Presented. [1900. 11. 10, 1-18] (c/. Oates, 

 Cat. Eggs Brit. Miis., iii., p. 53, 1902). 



3 specimens of Totamis fuscus, imm. from Russian Lapland. Pre- 

 sented. [1904. 5. 12, 1-3.] 



Mr. Henry Pearson was born in 1850 at Chilwell, Notts (the 

 adjoining village to Beeston, where John WoUey resided, when in 

 England). He was prevented until 1891 from devoting much time to 

 ornithology, by the more urgent pressure of business. In that year he 

 and his brother, Charles Pearson, went to Norway ; and, having chartered 

 a small steamer, explored many of the Lofoden Islands, from Ando 

 in the north to Rost, the most southern one. In 1892 he spent some 

 time during the nesting-season on the Dovreijeld and the district round 

 the Nordfjord ; and again visited these parts in 1902. An interesting 

 excursion, on which Messrs. Edward Bidwell and Charles Pearson accom- 

 panied him, was made to the Lofoden Islands, Porsanger Fjord and other 

 parts of Northern Norway in 1893, and recorded in the 'Ibis' for April 



1894. The following year was devoted to an exploration of the Southern 

 Fiskevotra of Iceland; the results were published in the 'Ibis' for April 



1895. In 1895 a more extended voyage was attempted, viz., to Novaya 

 Zemlya. Mr. Pearson was accompanied by Colonel H. W. Feilden, the 

 Rev. H. H. Slater and Mr. C. Pearson ; but the unsuitability of the yacht 

 chartered for the expedition prevented his plans from being carried out 

 in full. A short excursion was made to the north of Norway in 1896, 

 when Mr. Pearson ascertained that most of the red gulls' eggs so prized 

 by collectors were laid by Larus argentatus. Warned by the failure of 

 1895, a larger vessel was chartered in 1897 and a more successful voyage 

 was made to Novaya Zemlya, his companions being Colonel Feilden and 

 Dr. Frederick Curtis. The results obtained in 1895 and 1897 were 

 published in "Beyond Petsora Eastward," a book which has valuable 

 appendices by Colonel Feilden on the botany and geology of the countries 

 visited. Mr. Pearson's visit to Russian Lapland, with Mr. C. Pearson, in 

 1899, was recorded in the 'Ibis' for October of that year. In 1901 he 

 again went to that country and made a short stay on the Kanin Peninsula 

 on the opposite side of the White Sea ; while 1903 was spent in the interior 

 to the south of Kola, the old capital of Russian Lapland. Mr. Pearson's 

 last book, " Three Summers among the Bii'ds of Russian Ijapland," contains 

 a detailed account of these expeditions. 



Pease {Sir Alfred E.). 



386 birds from Somali Land and Southern Abyssinia. Presented. 

 [1902. 1. 20, 1-386.] 



14 birds from the Transvaal. Presented. [1905. 8. 13, 1-14.] 



This collection represents the result of Mr. Pease's expedition to 

 Abyssinia. Besides many rare and interesting species new to the Museum 

 collection, were further added the types of three new species, CisticoJa 

 lavendulx, Upiipa intermedia, and JProdotiscus peasei. The collection 

 was described by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant and Mr. 11. J. Reid in the 

 ' Ibis ' for 1901 (pp. 607-699, pi. xiii.), where some good field-notes by 

 Sir Alfred Pease will be found. 



