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in conjunction with Colonel H. W. Feildcn and (Jolonel E. A. Butlor, he 

 made a s^ood collection of birds and cp^ps, an account of which, with 

 excellent field-nutea by all three officerB, was imblished in the " Zoologist " 

 for 1882. 



A visit to Teneriffe in the spring of 1887 resulted in the publication 

 of some notes on the birds of that island (cf. " ibis," 1887, pp. 424-435; 

 1888, pp. 73-83). 



Capt. Savile Rcid has also assisted in the preparation of the third and 

 fourth volumes of the " Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum," 

 since Mr. E. W. Gates, owing to ill-health, was compelled to relinquish 

 the task. 



Reijkavik Museum, Iceland. 



4 young Iceland Falcons. Presented, [1902. 4. 9, 1-2; 1902. 

 (5. 1, 1-2.] 



Reiser (Dr. Othmar). 



16 birds from Uosnia. Presented. [1902. 8. 10, 1-16.] 

 Dr. Reiser is the well-known authority on the ornithology of the 

 I'lalkans, and is Director of the Museum at Herajevo in Bosnia. Hia 

 "Ornis Balcanica " and other kindred essays arc the standard authority 

 on the Avifauna of this portion of Europe. He has also carried out a very 

 successful ex{)odition to Southern Brazil (cf. " Ibis," 1903, pp. 140, 141). 



Kendall (Dr. Percy). 



23 birds, nesta and egge, from Bathurst, River Gambia. Presented. 

 [92. 1. 9, 1-23.] 



Dr. Kendall has travelled in the Zambesi region, where he discovered 

 a remarkable species of Weaver-Finch, which was named Serinua 

 rendalH by Canon Tristram, and afterwards made the type of a new 

 genus, Anomalospiza, by Captain Hliclley (Bull. B.O.C., xii., p. 30, 1901). 



Reynolds (H.). 



34 birds from Liberia. Purchased. [1905. 5. 28, 1-34.] 

 Cf. Chubb, P.Z.S., 1905, pp. 205-210. 



Ricardo (Miss). 



8 birds from Canada. Presented. [1900. 12. 30, 1-8.] 



Richards (Lieut.). 



See Tristram, Canon. 



Richardson (Sir John). 



13 s|)ecimens from Port Essington. Presented. [51. 3. 7, 1-13.] 



Poephila peraonata and Stictoptera nnnulosa, two rare species of 

 Weaver-Finches, were new to the collection. 



Was naturalist to Sir John Franklin's Polar Expedition in 1819, and 

 till ] 822 he was engaged in various explorations in Arctic America. 



Cf. Diet. Nat. Biogr., xlviii., p. 236. 



Rickard (J. C). 



21 specimens from Port Elizabeth, S. Africa. Presented. [87. 1. 

 23, 1-21.] 



Rickard was a correspondent of Layard's, and obtained many in- 

 teresting species of birds from East London and Port Elizabeth. His 

 name occurs frequently in my edition of Layard's "Birds of South 



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