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at Calcutta, has done so much for the advancement of the 

 geology and palaeontology of India, brought with him, when he 

 last came to Europe, a very rich collection of birds, one of the 

 results of his travels in Thibet and the Himalayas. The scien- 

 tific training of the collector has given to this collection a special 

 value, inasmuch as the localities are stated with the greatest 

 accuracy, in many individuals the sexes have been determined, 

 as well as their age and the time of year when they were killed, 

 and, of many species, very complete series are sent, showing the 

 different phases of plumage. As Dr. Stoliczka is very well 

 versed in Indian ornithology, he has himself named, with few 

 exceptions, all the species in the collection. Our museum is 

 deeply indebted to him for presenting to it the unrestricted 

 selection we were permitted to make, and thus enriching it with 

 so highly valuable an acquisition. 



In the following pages, with Dr. Stoliczka's consent, I pur- 

 pose to publish remarks on the birds'^ collected by him, and to 

 give all the notes which are attached to many of the species. 



As a knowledge of the localities and the heights above the 

 sea-level which the different species inhabit is of special im- 

 portance, I commence with an alphabetical list of their habitats, 

 to which Dr. Stoliczka has himself most kindly added the re- 

 spective geographical position and the altitude : — 



Ankhang (camping-ground), Province of Rupsliu, in West Thibet, 

 14,000-15,000 feet. 

 Budrawar, in South-east Cashmere, -3000-7000. 

 Chamba, North-western Himalaya, 2000-3000. 

 Chergaon, West Thibet, 11,000-12,000. 

 Chini, Noi*th-west Himalaya, 9000. 



in ' The Ibis' (1866, p. 142, & 1867, pp. 140-143), we are sure that such 

 of om* readers as are interested in Indian ornithology will highly ap- 

 preciate this account of them by an authority so trustworthy as Herr von 

 Pelzelu of Vienna. It appeared in the ' Joui-nal fiir Ornithologie ' for 

 the present year (pp. 21-37), and, but for the kindness of Lord Walden 

 in undertaking a translation of it, would probably remain unknown to 

 Indian ornithologists. — Ed.] 



* A few new or doubtful species which Dr. Stoliczka himself pro- 

 poses to describe, in his forth-coming work on Thibet, are not included. 



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