Birds. 485 



taxidermists, C. E. Seimund and Claude Grant, who joined the Imperial 

 Yeomanry and fought through the Boer War. The collection was made 

 in the neighbourhood of Deelfontein, where Colonel Sloggett was the 

 officer in charge of the Yeomanry Hospital. A full description was given 

 by me in the Ibis {I.e.), and a new species of Bunting was named 

 Fringillaria media. 



Smith {Br. Alexander). 



5 birds from Old Calabar. Presented. [77. 11. 23, 4-8.] 

 Dr. Smith was a missionary in Calabar, and sent a few specimens in 

 spirits to the Museum, among them being a remarkable little bird which 

 had white lobes on the gape, and I named it Lobornis alexandri after the 

 discoverer. It has recently been proved that these white lobes are a sign 

 of immaturity, and L. alexandri is only the young of a Parmoptila, 

 probably P. tvoodhousei. 



Smith {Lieut. A.). 



30 birds and eggs from New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. Pre- 

 sented. [43. 9. 16, 1-17 ; 43. 9. 26, 5-17.] 



Lieut. Smith was one of the officers on board H.M.S. Erelus during 

 the Antarctic Expedition. • 



Smith {Sir Andrew). 



295 birds from South Africa. Purchased. [45. 7. 6, 1-292 ; 48. 3. 21, 

 1-3.] 



Included Smith's types of Ploceus ocularius, P. aureoflavus, P. 

 subaureus, P. tahatali, P. mariquensis, Ploceipasser mahali, Poliozpiza 

 gularis, Mirafra africana, Alsemon semitorquata, Euryptila suhcin- 

 namonea, Calamonastesfasciolatus, Scops capensis, Asio Tnadagascariensis, 

 A. capensis, Olaucidium capensis, Smithornis capensis, Cinnyris 

 verreauxi, Caprimulgus nafalensis. 



14 birds from South Africa. Presented. [63. 3. 10, 1-14.] 



68 birds from South Africa. Presented after his death. [72. 10. 4, 

 52-120.] 



Sir Andrew Smith was one of the early pioneers of travel into the then 

 unknown interior of South Africa. He discovered many new species, 

 most of which he described in his " Report of the Expedition for exploring 

 Central Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope, June 23, 1834, under the 

 superintendence of Dr. A. Smith. Published for the subscribers only. 

 Printed at the Government Gazette Office, Grave Street, Cape Town, 

 1836." He also published some further notes in the " South African 

 Quarterly Journal " (nos. i.-v., 1829-1831 ; 2nd series, nos. i.-iv., 1833- 

 1834). While in South Africa he made the acquaintance of the Verreaux 

 brothers, and his collections were mounted by Jules and Alexis Verreaux. 



On his return to England with the collections he bad made, he 

 opened an exhibition of the results of his travels at the Egyptian Hall, 

 Piccadilly, in 1837 (the hall Bullock had built for his Museum about the 

 year 1811). A guide to the exhibition was called "A Catalogue of the 

 South African Museum, now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 

 the property of a society entitled ' The Cape of Good Hope Association 

 for exploring Central Africa.' This catalogue may be had at the Hall, or 

 of Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, 1837. Price one shilling." 



To the great chagrin of Sir Andrew, who had done so much hard 

 work, and discovered such a number of new forms of animal life, the 

 exhibition was a failure, and on the 6th of June, 1838, the sale of the 



