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F>ut Tristram by no means confined Ins ornithological 

 labours to one or two spots on the globe. He visited Norway, 

 and was also indefatigable in amassing specimens from all 

 quarters, while he was specially interested in obtaining them 

 from remote oceanic islands and similar strange places. 

 In 1889 he had got together over 17,000 specimens, and 

 prepared and printed a catalogue of them. Many of them 

 were of great rarity (e. g. Nestor productus, Camptolcema 

 labrodoria, Monarcha dimidiatus) and almost unknown else- 

 where. Some years afterwards, fearing that on his death 

 his famous collection might be dispersed, he came to an 

 arrangement with the authorities of the Free Public Museums 

 of Liverpool to take over the whole of his series of birds. 

 In the Report of the Committee of this Institution for 1896 

 will be found a short account of this important acquisition, 

 which is described as containing " 20,000 specimens referable 

 to 6,000 species, of which 150 are types." 



About the same time the Canon's large and valuable 

 collection of birds' eggs was disposed of to the late Philip 

 Crowley, of W addon House, Ci'oydon. At Crowley's death, 

 in 1901, it was directed that the whole of his collection of 

 eggs should be at the disposal of the British Museum. All 

 the valuable and important specimens of birds' eggs in 

 the Tristram Collection will now, therefore, be found in the 

 Cabinets at South Kensington. 



Tristram's name and fame are well commemorated by 

 several birds that bear his surname as their specific title. 

 Among these the most appropriate to him is Tristram's 

 Grakle (Amydrus tristrami), discovered by the traveller him- 

 self in the rocky gorges of the Dead Sea in January 1864*. 

 It belongs to an otherwise exclusively African group of 

 Starlings, of which it is the sole representative in Asia, and 

 was dedicated by Sclater to its discoverer. 



Tristram was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1868, and was also a Fellow, Member, or Correspondent of a 

 number of other scientific and learned Societies at home and 

 abroad. 



* See 'The Land of Israel,' p. 209. 



