Birds. 453 



Additional Observations on the Birds of the Province of Fohkien. 



Ibis, 1897, 600-610. 



Description of some apparently new Birds from China. Ibis, 



1897, p. 451. 



Grant, W. K. O. — Description of new Birds obtained from Fohkien. 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 297. 



Further Observations on the Birds of the Province of Fohkien, 



China. Ibis, 1898, p. 328. 



Slater (H. H.). — On a Further Collection of Birds, made by Messrs. 

 La Touche and Kickett, from N. W. Fohkien. Ibis, 1897, pp. 169- 

 176, pi. iv. 



Rickett (C, B.) and La Touche (J. D.). 



144 birds from Fohkien. Presented. [97. 12. 8, 1-47 ; 98. 1. 28, 

 1-97.] 



In this collection were the types of several new species, Cryptolopha 

 ricketti, C. sinensis, Fulvetta guttaticoUis, Suthora davidiana, Cettia 

 russula, Lepocesfes sinensis, Gecinulus viridanus. 



Ridley (H. N.). 



See Royal Society, 

 Mr. Ridley was for some years an assistant in the Botanical Depart- 

 ment of this Museum. In 1887 he made an expedition to the island of 

 Fernando Noronha, where he discovered two new species of birds, Elainea 

 ridleyana, Sharpe, and Vireo gracilirostris, Sharpe. He is now Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens in the Straits Settlements. 



Ringer (F.). 



254 specimens from Nagasaki. Presented. [84. 1. 16, 1-254.] 

 The above collection consisted of the duplicates which Mr. Seebohm 

 did not require from Mr. Ringer's series : it added one species, Remiza 

 consohrina, to the Museum, The Seebohm Bequest contains a full series 

 of Nagasaki birds from Mr. Ringer. 



Riocour {Comie de). 

 See BoucARD, A. 

 The Comte de Riocour possessed one of the most famous private 

 collections of birds in the world. Vieillot described many types from it 

 and some new species, such as the Swallow-tailed Kite of Africa (Nauderus 

 riocouri) were named after the old Count. The present Comte de Riocour 

 was not a naturalist, and the collection was disposed of to Mr. Boucard, 

 who made the first offer of it to the British Museum. In Mr. Boucard's 

 company, I made a journey to the Chateau de Riocour, near Vitry 

 and selected all the Vieillotian types I could find, and the Museum also 

 obtained a specimen of the extinct starling of Mauritius (Fregilupus 

 varius). The collection consisted entirely of mounted birds, and occupied 

 a large room in the chateau, being arranged in glass cases, the birds all 

 being perched on white stands, and the windows rigidly darkened with 

 green Venetian blinds. It is due to the care with which the light had 

 been excluded that this old collection had remained in such excellent 

 preservation. Besides the MS. labels of the old Comte de Riocour, I 

 found from the writing on several of the stands that, in addition to 

 Vieillot, Prince Bonaparte and Jules Verreaux must have visited the 

 collection and determined some of the species. In addition to the 

 Fregilupus, the collection also contained a fine specimen of the Great 

 Auk {Plautus impennis). 



