412 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
About this time the late John Gould was issuing in parts his 
splendid folio work on the ‘Birds of Great Britain,’ and few 
persons gave him more information for his text than our mutual 
friend Bond. His knowledge of species, and intimate acquaint- 
ance with birds in a state of nature, enabled him to give many 
valuable hints, and, although he would rarely take the trouble 
to write down information, he would tell you more in an hour 
than you could learn from books in a week. Many of the 
birds figured in Gould’s work were drawn from specimens 
obtained by Bond, and some of them—as the Black Redstart, 
Scarlet Grosbeak, White Wagtail, Crested Lark, Serin, and 
others—were, through his instrumentality, introduced for the 
first time in the List of British Birds. Indeed the aid he gave 
to his friends who had more taste for writing and publishing 
than himself was considerable ; and the information which he 
communicated to the author of the ‘ Birds of Middlesex,’ and to 
Mr. A. G. More for his observations on the fauna of the Isle of 
Wight (published in Venables’ ‘ Guide to the Isle of Wight,’ 1860), 
and for his excellent paper ‘‘On the Distribution of Birds in 
Great Britain during the Nesting-season ’’ (printed in ‘ The Ibis’ 
for 1865), must be apparent to those who are familiar with these 
publications. 
It now only remains to notice some of the more remarkable 
specimens in his collection of British birds and their eggs, in the 
formation of which he spent a lifetime; and it is perhaps the 
more desirable to have some record of them here, as he himself 
made no catalogue of his treasures, and the history of many of 
the specimens is now only to be ascertained from an examination 
of the labels attached to them. Many, alas! are without labels, 
and all that can be said of them is that they are ‘‘ certainly 
British, and in many cases were obtained by himself.” 
The birds are preserved partly in glass cases, of which there 
are about 150 stacked round the walls of his study ; partly in 
skins preserved in cabinets. As the cases have been recently 
numbered and catalogued by the present writer, it will perhaps 
be most convenient to refer to them here by their numbers, as, 
in consequence of the way in which they are stacked, it would 
be impossible to take them in any scientific order without first 
entirely re-arranging them. 
In the Case numbered 1, containing the British Shrikes, a 
