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West Coast of Africa for Antelopes, Ostriches, &c. He 

 sent Mr. Bates on two expeditions to Honduras for Ocel- 

 lated Turkeys, also Mr. David Dyson. He sent Mr. 

 Burke to collect in the Hudson Bay Territories; and 

 sent his Superintendent for several years in succession 

 for Bustards specially reared for him in Germany, and 

 more than once to Norway and Sweden for Beindeer and 

 Capercaillie. 



All this activity resulted in the acquisition of many 

 museum specimens, the British Museum and Zoological 

 Society receiving all the larger objects, as Giraffes, Bhinos- 

 ceroses and other large game to the ultimate loss of Liver- 

 pool. Over and above all this resulted the discovery of some 

 important beasts and birds altogether new to science, e.g., 

 the Striped Eland or Jing-e-Jonga, Oreas Derbianus, from 

 "West Africa ; the Water Musk Antelope, Hyomoschus aqua- 

 ticus, from Sierra Leone, Gambia, and Senegal, remark- 

 able for being the only ruminant having the third and 

 fourth metacarpals distinct through life, so that the manus 

 scarcely differs from that of the Boars ; the Derbian 

 Screamer, Cliauna Derbiana, Gray, from the northern coast 

 of Columbia ; the Derby Mountain-Pheasant, Oreophasis 

 Derbianus, G. B. Gray, from the Forests of the Mountain 

 Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of fire, Guatemala original or 

 type specimen. This last remarkable bird, the first speci- 

 men of its kind ever taken, was presented by C. Klee, Esq., 

 of Guatemala, and brought to England in 1843 by Mr. Bates, 

 a collector sent to that country by his Lordship expressly 

 to procure Natural History specimens. Very few specimens 

 have since been obtained. The bird being confined, so far as 

 is yet known, to a single mountain, is exceedingly rare, and 

 very difficult to procure. Mr. O. Salvin, whose hunter 

 had brought him three specimens, made three or four expe- 

 ditions without seeing more than traces of it. He states 



