468 Zoology. 



154 specimens of Picarian birds (Motmots, Todies, Kingfishers, 

 Trogons), including the type of Momotus microstephanus. Purchased. 

 [90. 4. 20, 1-154.] 



266 specimens of Psittaci (Parrots), including 7 types {Conurus 

 holochrous, C. rubritorques, C. rhodogaster, Chrysotis sallxi, Urochroma 

 stidoptera, U. delectissima), and 4 species new to the collection. 

 Purchased. [90. 6. 1, 1-266]. 



71 specimens of OalbuUdm (J acumars), mcluding 5 types (Urogalba 

 amazonum, Qalbida rufovirldis, 0. melanogenia, O. inornata, 

 G. fulviventris). Purchased. [90. 8. 12, 1-71.] 



137 specimens of Bucconidas (Puff-birds), including 5 types (Bucco 

 napensis, B. leucocrissus, B. puJmentum, Malacoptila inornata, Nonnula 

 hrunnea). Purchased. [90. 8. 28, 1-137.] 



26 eggs of various birds (^Strut/no moJybdophanes, Casuarius wester- 

 manni, Ckauna chavaria, etc.). Presented. [91. 6. 21, 1-26.] 



58 birds from Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, collected by 

 Dr. F. AVithington. Purchased. [92. 6. 59, 1-58.] 



This collection was described by Dr. Sclater in the Ibis for 1888 

 (pp. 461-473). 



16 birds from the West Indies, collected by Mr. W. B. Richardson. 

 Purchased. [93. 12. 16, 1-16.] 



6 birds from Adis Abeba, Abyssinia, collected by the late 

 Capt. Welby. Presented. [1901. 1. 28, 1-6.] 



Contained a specimen of Turacus donaldsoni, previously only known 

 from Somali Land. 



6 specimens of Colics in spirit from South Africa. Presented. 

 [1905. 5. 17, 1-6.] 



Dr. Sclater was for more than forty years the Secretary of the 

 Zoological Society of London. He took office, on the retirement of 

 Mr. D. W. Mitchell, who had accepted the post of Director of the 

 " Jardin d'Acclimatation " in Paris. The affairs of the Zoological 

 Society were then at a low ebb, but by the efficient management and 

 enthusiasm of the new Secretary the Society was re-constituted, and a 

 career of ever-increasing success was inaugurated. It is needless to 

 allude to the fame of the Society, since Dr. Sclater became its Secretary, 

 as the proof is patent in the volumes of the ' Proceedings ' and 

 ' Transactions ' since the year 1859 to the present time. A Memoir by 

 Professor G. Brown Goode, recording " the i3ublished writings of Philip 

 Lutley Sclater, 1844-1896," appeared in the last-named year as " Bulletin 

 No. 49 of the United States National Museum." At that date his 

 contributions to zoological literature amounted to 1297 ! The memoir by 

 Professor Brown Goode gives a full synopsis of Dr. Sclater's work, a 

 wonderful example of a man's energy ; equally remarkable have been his 

 extreme kindness and encouragement to the young men commencing 

 their scientific career. There are many men now living, besides myself, 

 who can testify to the assistance which was freely ofiered to us by 

 Dr. Sclater, when we were putting our first footstep on the ladder. 



He was born in 1829 at Tangier House in Hampshire, educated at 

 Winchester College, whence he went to Oxford, here meeting Hugh E. 

 Strickland, who was Reader in Geology to the University. Strickland 

 became his mstructor, and a close friendship resulted between the two 

 men, continued up to Strickland's vmtimely death. A joint paper on 

 the birds of Damara Land appeared in the " Contributions to Orni- 

 thology " for 1852. It was by Strickland's advice that Sclater took up 

 the study of American birds, and after some few papers on British species 



