of Sibthorp's ' Fauna Graeca.' 223 



belong, as do the original drawings of the "' Flora Graeca/ to 

 the library of the Botanical Gardens at Oxford. These 

 drawings, like those of the plants, were made by the celebrated 

 artist Ferdinand Bauer, who accompanied Sibthorp in his 

 journeys to Greece and the Levant in 1786 and the following 

 years. They have been arranged and bound in three folio 

 volumes, which bear the following MS. title : — 



a Fauna Grreca Sibthorpiana, or Drawings of the Animals 

 of Greece and the Levant executed by Ferdinand Bauer for 

 Dr. John Sibthorp, but never engraved." 



The first volume contains "Mammalia, Amphibia, and 

 Pisces" (with 91 drawings), the second "Pisces" (with 

 85 drawings), and the third "Aves" (with 114 drawings). 

 The drawings of the last volume appear to have been arranged 

 according to Gould's ' Birds of Europe/ and are named 

 (in MS.) with English and Latin names. As regards these, 

 there is a MS. entry which gives us the following informa- 

 tion : — " The names marked ' G/ have been determined by 

 J. Gould, the names marked ' H. E. S.' by H. E. Strickland : 

 all the rest by F. Holme." Besides the English and Latin 

 names some of the pages bear MS. remarks on the 

 identity of the species and short criticisms on the figures, 

 which, however, in most cases are very accurate and easily 

 identifiable. 



Frederick Holme, who appears to have had the principal 

 share in naming the plates, was a Medical Fellow of Corpus 

 Christi College, Oxford. He died in 1819, and I am not 

 sure that I ever saw him ; but I well recollect that Strickland 

 used to speak of him as a " good ornithologist," and in the 

 " Strickland ^Collection of Birds," now in the University 

 Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, there are five or six 

 specimens labelled as received from " F. Holme " *. 



Prof. Newton has kindly examined for me Strickland's 

 correspondence,^no\v in the Museum at Cambridge, and has 

 found several letters from Holme to Strickland referring to 



* See • Catalogue of the Strickland Collection of Birds,' by 0. Salvia 

 (Cambridge, 1832), Introduction, p. xi, and nos. 890, 1457, 1566, 1759, 

 and 1819, 



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