Mammals. 2.°> 



Bonhote (J. Lewis). [1899] 



32 Mammals from various localities, mostly from the Bahamas. 

 Presented. . 



The Museum is also indebted to Mr. Bonbote for much assistance in 

 working out recent accessions from the Oriental region. 

 Boys (Capt W. J. K). [1848] 



64 Mammals from India. Purchased. 



Briceiio (S.). [1898] 



127 Mammals from Merida, Venezuela, including the types of a large 

 number of species and sub-species. Presented by Oldfield Thomas or 

 purchased. 



Senor Briceiio has lived many years at Merida, and nas sent to 

 England representatives of nearly all the Mammalian fauna, most of which 

 have on arrival proved to need description. The most notable species 

 discovered by him are Nasua o. meridensis, Oryzomys flavicans, 0. meri- 

 densis and 0. vestitus, Rhipidomys Venezuela and R. venustm, Marmosa 

 dryas, M. marica and M.fuscata. 

 Bridges (Thomas). [1843] 



254 Mammals, mostly small, from Chili, Bolivia, and Argentina. 

 Purchased, either direct from Mr. Bridges, or from his agent, H. Cuming, 

 or received with the Zoological Society's Museum. 



After Darwin, Mr. Bridges was the first English naturalist to collect 

 systematically the small Mammals of South America. He obtained 

 considerable series of many obscure species, making at the same time 

 most careful observations on their distribution and habits. Unfortunately 

 owing to the lax ideas about geography then prevalent, his specimens 

 were°simply recorded as being from "Chili," and their exact habitats, 

 witb a few exceptions, were lost. 



The specimens were worked out by Mr. G. P. Waterhouse, then 

 Curator of the Zoological Society's Museum, by whom many new and 

 interesting forms were described. The Kodent volume of Mr. Water- 

 house's " Natural History of the Mammalia " (1848) refers constantly to 

 Mr. Bridges's specimens and observations. 



Of the many types in the Bridges collection the most notable are 

 those of Dasypus vellerosus, Octodon bridgesii, _ Aconxmys fiucus, 

 Ctenomys brasiliensis and C. hucodon, and Cavia boliviensis. 



Some letters by Mr. Bridges recording his observations are published 

 in the 'Proceedings' of the Zoological Society for 1841, p. 93; 1843, 

 p. 12!) ; 1844, p. 153 ; and 1846, p. 7. 

 Brooke (Sir Douglas), Bart. [1895] 



28 specimens, beinc; a selection from the Mammals in the collection 

 formed by his father, Sir Victor Brooke, and including the types of 

 Cervus mesopotami<nx, P>r< »oke, and Cepha1ophusbrookei,'\ hos. Presented. 



Brooke (Sir J.), Rajah of Sarawak. [1845] 



18 Mammals from Sarawak, including, among Others, the specimens 

 of the "Lesser (Drang," Simia morio, described by Prof. Owen. 

 Presented. 

 Brookes's Museum. [1829] 



Unfortunately but few Bpecimena can be identified as having come 

 from "Brookes's Museum,*' of which a catalogue was published in 1829. 

 Among these is the type of Aello cuvieri, Leach. 



