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XXVI, comprising nearly one half of the 11,500 species contained 

 in the entire work. 



These two undertakings, the 'Catalogue' and the 'Hand-list,' 

 published during the thirty-seven years of his official life as Curator 

 of the British Museum Department of Birds, are only a part, 

 although a considerable part, of his ornithological output during 

 this long period; for he found time to complete the unfinished works 

 of several of his ornithological colleagues, and to write a large 

 number of special publications on birds which alone might be 

 considered a remarkable series to be produced by a single author. 

 The first include Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea,' of which two- 

 thirds was published after Gould's death; also five parts of Gould's 

 'Monograph of the Trochilidfe,' to say nothing of Sharpe's contri- 

 butions to some of Gould's other works. He also completed and 

 edited Seebohm's 'Eggs of British Birds,' and his 'Monograph 

 of the Turdidse,' and after Osbert Salvin's death assisted Godman 

 in the completion of the 'Aves' of the 'Biologia Centrali-Ameri- 

 cana.' 



His own separate works include a 'Monograph of the Birds of 

 Paradise and Bower-birds' (folio, 1891-1898); a 'Monograph 

 of ihe Hirundinidse' (4to, 1885-1894, with C. W. Wyatt); a new 

 edition of Layard's 'History of the Birds of South Africa' (8vo, 

 1875-1884); 'An Analytical Index to the Works of the late John 

 Gould,' with a biographical memoir (4to, 1893); 'A Handbook to 

 the Birds of Great Britain' (4 vols., 8vo, 1894-1897); 'A Review of 

 Recent Attempts to Classify Birds' (1891); Part III of the 'Cata- 

 logue of the Osteological Specimens in the Museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons (Aves, 8vo, 1891); 'History of the Bird Col- 

 lection in the British Museum' (1906). 



He also wrote the reports on the birds for the 'Zoology' of vari- 

 ous Government and private Exploring Expeditions, as the Voyage 

 of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' (Birds, 4to, 1875); the Voyage of 

 the 'Alert' (1884); the Second Yarkand Mission (1891); Oates's 

 'Matabele Land and Victoria Falls' (1881 and 1889); and Jame- 

 son's 'Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Ex- 

 pedition' (1890). 



His ornithological papers in scientific journals, beginning in 

 1866, number nearly four hundred, and some of them are of con- 



