Birds. 499 



Treasury, Lords of the. 



See Feilden, H. W. ; Hart, H. C. 



Trevelyan {Major Herbert). 



168 birds from the district of Kingwilliamstown, South Africa. 

 Presented. [76. 3. 19, 1-9 ; 76. 6. 8, 1-6 ; 76. 12. 5, 13 ; 77. 1. 20, 1-43 ; 

 77. 7. 28, 1-20; 77. 10. 15, 21-95 ; 79. 8. 1, 1-6 ; 80. 11. 4, 1-8.] 



4 birds and 2 eggs from Loch Erne, Ireland, and from Devonshire. 

 Presented. [1905. 6. 25, 1-3; 1905. 9. 7, 1 ; 1905. 11. 4, 1; 1905. 

 11. 19, 1.] 



During his service in South Africa, Major Trevelyan collected 

 extensively, and gave many interesting species of birds to the Museum. 



Trevor-Battye (A. B. R.). 



23 birds from Spitsbergen. Presented. [97. 2. 28, 1-23.] 



Mr. Trevor-Battye is well known for his travels in Northern Europe, 



and his adventures in Kolguev are described in his book " Ice-bound in 



Kolguev," 4to, 1895. 



Cf. also " Who's Who," 1905, p. 1620. 



Tristram {Canon H. B.), D.D., F.B.S., etc. 



265 specimens from Palestine. Purchased. [64. 11. 22, 1-265.] 



Cf. Tristram, P.Z.S., 1864, pp. 426-456 ; id., Fauna and Flora of 

 Palestine, 4to. 



41 specimens from various Pacific islands (Fiji group, New Caledonia, 

 Loyalty Islands, etc.) Purchased. [79. 3. 5, 6-24 ; 80. 8. 10, 1-12 ; 

 82. 5. 29, 1-10.] 



These were duplicates from Mr. E. L. Layard's collection, the first set, 

 ■with the types, being purchased by Mr. Seebohm, and bequeathed by 

 him to the British Museum. 



Some of Mr. Layard's collections were sent to Canon Tristram for 

 description, and many of the duplicates were oflered to the Museum, 

 which thus acquired several rare species new to the National Collection, 

 such as Turdus pritzbueri, Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides, Myiagra 

 luguiei, Pachycepliala littayei, Erythrura cyaneifrons, Zosterops inornata, 

 Z. minuta, Myzomela lifuensis, Graucahis l{fuensis, and Megapodius 

 layardi, etc. Cf. Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 265-280 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1879, 

 pp. 180-195, pis. iv.-vi. 



27 birds from the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides, collected 

 by Lieut. Richards. Purchased. [80. 2. 10, 1-5 ; 81. 11. 14, 1-21.] 



Canon Tristram was born under the shadow of the Cheviot Hills, and 

 passed his early life in Northumberland. He early developed a taste for 

 natural history study, and did much field-work in company with his 

 father's friends, the late Ralph Carr-EUison of Hedgely and J. C. Langlands 

 of Old Bewick. The inclinations of the lad towards natural history may 

 have been hereditary, as he is a great nephew of the Hon. Daines Bar- 

 rington, Gilbert White's correspondent. 



Like other boys, he began by making a collection of birds' eggs, 

 and before the age of fifteen he had taken with his own hands, 

 and within a walk of his home, the eggs of the Kite, Buzzard, 

 Marsh Harrier, Hen Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, and Raven. At school 

 and at Oxford he actively cherished his love for ornithology and 

 entomology, having as a boy at Durham School practised taxidermy 

 under old William Proctor, the Curator of the Museum, who had made 

 several expeditions to Iceland. After leaving college, Tristram went to 



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