Birds 455 



Robillard (M.). 



7 specimens from the Forest of Aiicaya, Madagascar. Purchased. 

 [83. 6. 3, 1-9.] 



The first examples of Mesites variegata and Tylas fulviventris were 

 here acquired by the Museum. 



Robinson (H. C). 



149 specimens from the Bellenden Ker range in Queensland and the 

 Cape York Peninsula. Presented. [97. 4. 21, 1-7 ; 1900. 4. 26, 1-35 ; 

 1901. 3. 20, 1-107.] 



13 skeletons of birds from the Malay Peninsula. Presented. 

 [1903. 1. 7, 1-13.] 



A specimen of Turdinulus humei, from Salangore. Presented. 

 [1905. 1. 21, 1.] 



3 birds from Pahang, including one type and one species new to the 

 collection. Presented. [1905. 4. 4, 1-3.] 



13 skeletons. Presented. [1903. 1. 7, 1-13.] 



498 birds from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, collected by 

 himself and Mr. N. Annandale. Presented. [1905. 2. 1, 1-498.] 



Mr. Robinson is a young naturalist who made a successful expedition 

 to Queensland, and, on his return, worked in the Liverpool Museum, 

 under the Director, Dr. H. 0. Forbes ; some excellent papers on birds in 

 that great institution were published conjointly with the Litter in the 

 " Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums." He afterwards visited the Malay 

 Peninsula with Mr. N. Annandale, when tlie two explorers made a large 

 collection of birds in Perak. {Cf. Fasciculi Malayeuses, Zool., part iii., 

 1905.) Mr. Robinson is now Director of the State Museum of Salangore. 



Robson (T.). 



See Stevens, S., and Sharpe, R. Bowdler. 



4 birds from Turkey, including the types of Orites tephronotus. 

 Presented. [1865. 3. 31, 1-2 ; 1865. 4. 25, 1-2.] 



Mr. Robson was a well-known collector in Turkey, chiefly in the 

 neighbourhood of Constantinople and the opposite coast of Asia Minor. 

 He contributed many excellent notes to the early parts of the " Birds of 

 Europe," and was the discoverer of the Long-tailed Tit, jSHgithalus 

 tephronotus (Giinther), ' Ibis,' 1865, pp. 95-98, pi. iv. 



Romilly {Dr.). 



75 birds from the Horse-shoe Range in tlie Astrolabe Mountains. 

 Presented by the Commissioners of Queensland. [87. 2, 6, 1-75.] 



This collection was exhibited at the Colonial Exhibition at South 

 Kensington, and was afterwards presented to the British Museum by the 

 Queensland Commissioners. It contained many rare species of birds new 

 to the Museum collection, among them being the female of Paradisornis 

 rudolphi and other Birds of Paradise. 



Rosbach (A.). 



21 eggs from the Smolea Islands, N. Norway. Purchased. [98. 6. 20, 

 1-21.] 



Mr. Rosbach was an excellent observer, whom I met on niy first 

 expedition to the Smolen Isles. He had lived there for thirty years, and 

 was thoroughly well acquainted with the birds of that Archipelago and 

 their habits. The Museum purchased from him eggs of the Turnstone 

 (^Arenaria interpres), the Sheld-Duck (^Tadorna tadorna), Teal {Nettium 

 crecca), and the Hooded Crow {Cor one cornix). 



