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Mous. A. Pierre, who was a high Government official in the French 

 colony in Cochin China, presented a large collection of birds to the 

 Paris Museum. The duplicates he very generously gave to the British 

 Museum, where they have proved of great service. Among them were 

 such rare species as Polyplectrum germaini, and Porphyria edivardsi, 

 previously unrepresented in the British Museum. 



Pike (A.). 



29 birds from Eastern Turkestan, Presented. [98. 7. 23, 1-29.] 



Pike (H. J.), and Pike (T. M.) and Popham (H. L.). 



69 specimens of Geese, Ducks and Wading Birds from Walcheren, 

 Holland. [95. 2. 6, 1-14 ; 96. 2. 20, 1-12 ; 97. 2. 24, 1-21 ; 1900. 1. 

 15, 1-5 ; 1902. 12. 14, 1-4; 1902. 12. 27, 1-4 ; 1903. 1. 15, 1-7.] 



The Museum is exceedingly indebted to the above-named gentlemen 

 for a fine series of European Anseres, of which we previously possessed but 

 a scanty collection. 



Pinwill (Captain Stackhouse). 



1532 specimens from the N.W. Himalayas, the Indian Peninsula, 

 and Malacca. Presented. [76. 1. 15, 1-26 ; 76. 2. 12, 1-980 ; 76. 2. 28, 

 1-54 ; 76. 3. 7, 1-137 ; 76. 10. 20, 1-75 ; 81. 7. 30, 1-260.] 



The Museum is under a debt of gratitude to Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill, 

 who gave a fine collection of Indian birds for the furtherance of the 

 " Catalogue of Birds," at a time when the series of specimens in the 

 Museum, before the presentation of the great Hume Collection, was poor 

 indeed. The first specimen of the rare Bat-hunting Pern (Machxrhamphus 

 alcinus) we owe to Capt. Pinwill, as also the types of Pomatorhinus pinwilli, 

 in addition to many other rare species of Indian birds, such as Acanthoptila 

 nipalensis, from the North-West frontier of Nepal, and others. 



" Plumper," H.M.S. 



See Lyall, Dr. 



Ponta Delgada Museum, Azores (Major Chaves, Director). 



43 birds from the Azores. Presented. [1904. 6. 21, 1-3 ; 1905. 1. 26, 

 1-39 ; 1905. 6. 6, 1.] 



Popham (H. Leybourne). 

 See Pike, T. M. 



Pratt (A. E.). 



See Leach ; Oldfield Thomas ; Seebohm. 

 Mr. Pratt is chiefly known as an entomologist, but he has collected 

 many interesting species of birds and their eggs. In the " Catalogue of 

 Eggs " are recorded those of rare Thibetan species, mostly fromTa-tsien-lu, 

 obtained by Mr. Pratt, and bequeathed to the Trustees by the late 

 Mr. Henry Seebohm. 



Pretyman (Capt. E. J,). 



A Grey Phalarope (Crymophilus fuUcarius) from Ipswich, [1900. 

 9. 3, 1.] 



Of. " Who's Who," 1904, p. 1238. 



