VOL. XIV.] SALE OF PORTLAND MUSEUM. 



1442 The Kestrel-Hawk, and an Ostrich's 



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Purchaser. 

 Humphreys 



Price. 

 036 



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4 6 



1443 A very fine and complete collection of 

 near two hundred species of British 

 Birds' eggs all arranged and named 

 according to the Linncpan system 



BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIRDS. 



(PP- 73. 74-) 



1642 Ten pair of British Birds, of both sexes, 



among which are the Ring Ouzel ; 

 Piciis villosus, not before hnown to be 

 British ; Stiirnus Cinclus, Emberiza 

 Nivalis ; the red-backed Butcher 

 Bird ; the Muscicapa Atricapilla, or 

 Goldfinch, of Pennant ; a single 

 specimen of the Bohemian Chatterer ; 

 and the head and wings of Rallus 

 Porzana L. or lesser spotted Water 

 Hen, etc. ... ... ... ... Walker o 



1643 Forty-three specimens of English Birds, 



among which are various species of 

 Larks; the Sedge Bird of Pennant; 

 the Petty Chaps ; the Willow Wren ; 

 the red-headed Linnet ; the Whin 

 Chat ; the Stone Chatterer ; the 

 golden-crested Wren ; the Black Cap ; 

 the small spotted Woodpecker, etc. Cash o 



BRITISH AND EXOTIC BIRDS IN GLASS-CASES. 



(PP- 74. 75) 



1 661 The Parus biarmicus L. or bearded 



Titmouse, male, female ; the Dartford 

 Warbler, Latham's Synopsis of Birds, 

 page 435, and MotaciUa Hyppolais L. 

 or Petty Chaps, in 3 cases 



1662 Picus Minor L. or lesser spotted 



Woodpecker ; MotaciUa Hirundinacea, 

 a new British Bird with its nest and 

 egg. — See Mr. Lightfoot, in Philos. 

 Transactions, 1785, and a PippetLark, 

 in 3 cases ... ... ... ... Humphreys 150 



1663 Two fine Tit-Larks, in 2 cases ... Cash 086 

 i66g A large and fine crested Grebe, with its 



wings extended, in a. neat mahogany 

 glass case, with a looking-glass back, 

 lock and key ... ... ... ... Walker 250 



The prices, realized in 1786, are so low as to excite modern 

 cupidity, and the catalogue fails to satisfy present-day 

 curiosity since the description of some of the lots is so 

 incomplete that many of them may have included desiderata 

 of first-class importance. 



(a) Lots 910/912, testify to the old-time practice of pasting 

 birds' eggs on to cards ; a method of displaying their treasures 

 long ago abandoned by oologists. 



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