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principally been engaged in working out the birds of the 

 Asiatic continent and islands was included by Mr. R. B. 

 Sharpe in his Introduction to Gould's ' Birds of Asia/ 

 This " Introduction " was reprinted in < The Ibis ' for 1884, 

 p. 49. Amongst the contributions to the ornithology of 

 India since the appearance of Jerdon's ' Birds of India ' 

 some of the principal are: (1) Blyth's commentary on 

 Jerdon in 'The Ibis' for 1866 and 1867, his ornithology 

 of Ceylon (Ibis, 1867), and his posthumous list of the 

 Birds of Burma, published, with additions by Viscount 

 Walden, as an extra number to the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal for 1875 ; (2) Jerdon's supplementary 

 notes (Ibis, 1871 and 1872); (3) papers by the Marquis 

 of Tweeddale (Viscount Walden), Major Wardlaw Bamsay, 

 Colonel J. Biddulph, and Messrs. A. Anderson, H. J. Elwes, 

 R. C. Beavan, J. Scully, and R. B. Sharpe in < The Ibis ' 

 and the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society; (4) 

 contributions by F. Stoliczka, H. H. Godwin- Austen, 

 W. E. Brooks, V. Ball, G. King, 'A. C. McMaster, and 

 the present writer to the Journal and Proceedings of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal ; (5) Hume's ' Scrap Book,' ' Nests 

 and Eggs,' ' Lahore to Yarkand ' (in part by Dr. Henderson), 

 and 'Game Birds' (written in conjunction with Colonels 

 C. H. T. and G. F. L. Marshall); (6) Legge's 'Birds of 

 Ceylon,' Oates's ' Birds of Burmah/ J. Anderson's ' Zoological 

 Results of the Yunnan Expeditions/ Barnes's ' Birds of Bom- 

 bay/ Murray's ' Vertebrate Zoology of Sind ' and ' Avifauna 

 of British India ;' and above all (7) the eleven volumes of 

 < Stray Feathers.' Of all the pages in the latter the larger 

 number are by Mr. Hume himself, the other more important 

 Indian contributors being Messrs. R. M. Adam, J. Aitkeii, 

 A. Anderson, J. Armstrong, V. Ball, H. E. Barnes, C. T. 

 Bingham, W. E. Brooks, E. A. Butler, Cock, J. R. Cripps, 

 J. Davidson and Wenden, W. Davison, S. B. Doig, S. B. 

 Fairbank, J. A. Gammie, J. Inglis, W. V. Legge, C. H. T. 



