Birds. 441 



Percival (A. Blayney) and Dodson (W.). 



251 specimens from South Arabia. Purchased. [1900. 8. 5, 1-243 ; 

 1901. 11. 8, 1-8.] 



3 birds from Southern Arabia, including the type of Rhyncontruthus 

 ■percivali. Presented. [1901. 12. 16, 1-3.] 



The collection made by the Percival-Dodson expedition was of very 

 great interest, and contained the types of three new species, Telephonus 

 percevali, Ammomanes sahiratus, and CEdicnemus dodsoni {cf. Grant, 

 Nov. Zool., vii., pp. 243-273, 591, p. x., 1900). 



Perkins (R. C. L.). 



See PiOYAL Society and British Association. 



Persian Boundary Commission. 



See Blanford, W. T. 



Perks (Dr. R. H.). 



197 birds from South Australia. Purchased. [98. 5. 17, 1-197.] 



Perth (W. A.). 



See West Australian Museum. 



Petherick {Consul J.). 



10 specimens from Khartum. Purchased. [62. 6. 21, 5-14.] 



A specimen of Balseniceps rex from the Upper White Nile. Purchased. 



[63. 12. 17, 1.] 



Consul Petherick was Kesident at Khartum for some years, and 



created quite a sensation in En>;land by sending living specimens of the 



Balxniceps to the Zoological Gardens. 



Petit (Louis). 



56 birds from Landana, Lower Congo. Purchased. [89. 3. 26, 1-59.] 

 M. Petit pere was a dealer in Paris, and his son Louis collected first 

 in Senegambia and afterwards on the Lower Congo with Dr. Lucan. 

 Their collections were sent to M. A. Bouvier, who asked me to write an 

 account of them [" Etudes d'Ornithologie Africaine, par K. Bowdler Sharpe 

 et A. Bouvier. Catalogue d'une Collection recueillie a Landana et Chiu- 

 chonxo (Congo) par M. Louis Petit, pendant les mois de Janvier, fevrier, 

 mars et avril, 1876," Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, pp. 36-53, 301-314, 

 pi. ii. ; 1877, pp. 470-481 ; 1878, pp. 73-80]. Psalidopi-ocne petiti was 

 described as new and figured in the first paper, and the second paper, 

 appearing in the same volume of the "Bulletin" (pp. 300-314), was 

 entitled "Sm* les Collections recueillies dans la Eegion du Congo par 

 MM. le Dr. A. Lucan et L. Petit depuis le mois de mai jusqu'en 

 septembre." Bradypterus rufescens was described as new (p. 307) and 

 Nigrita lucani (= N. luteifrons, ? ). 



The Congo collections were brought over to Loudon by M. Bouvier 

 and named by me, on the understanding that the British Museum should 

 be allowed to purchase all specimens required. Unfortunately M. Bouvier 

 did not keep to his part of the bargain, and on returning to Paris he pub- 

 lished my descriptions of some of the new species under his own name 

 (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, pp. 228, 229). 



