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Lot 104. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater, Merops cyanops. " New 

 Zealand" (according to the MS. note in Professor Newton's 

 copy). Bought by Temminck for '20s. This specimen is JSnto- 

 myza cyanotis, and formed t he subject of Plate 171 of the 

 "Planches Coloriees." Dr. Finsch, writing to Professor Newton 

 in 11)00, states that it is still in the Leyden Museum. 



No. 109. Yellow-tufted Bee-eater, M. Fa?sicul;itus, was bought 

 by Lord Stanley for 19s. A MS. note in Professor Newton's 

 copy adds : " Bro* by Capt. Cook." 



No. 112. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, Latham MS.; "from 

 Abyssinia " (MS. note in Professor Newton's copy). Bought by 

 Prof. Lichtenstein for 26s. 



Lot 120. [Following on several "unknown " and " undescribed " 

 Bee-eaters] Two undescribed species [of Bee-eaters]. Bought by 

 Temminck for 20s. Professor Newton thinks that one of these 

 may have been M. hullocJd (cf. Donovan, Nat. Repository, i., p. 

 to pi. cxxxvii). A MS. note in his copy adds that these birds 

 were from New Holland. 



Dr. Leach does not seem to have been present at this 

 day's sale. 



The Sixteenth Day's Sale took place on Wednesday, 

 May 26, 1819. Still more birds put up to auction, and Dr. 

 Leach was present, all the other purchasers being there as usual. 

 Many " unknown " Pigeons were bought by Baron Laugier, 

 Professor Temminck, Lord Stanley, Mr. Vigors, Mr. Molinari ; 

 and Lot 1 by Mr. Fector. 



Lot 22. Dr. Leach bought an " unknown Pigeon," which is 

 said, in a MS. note to Professor Newton's copy, to have come 

 from the " S. S. Voyages" (10s.). 



No. 28. Hook-billed Pigeon (female) from Senegal, purchased 

 by Swainson for 8s., may well have been his type of Treron 

 widirostris. 



Lot 30. A Crowned Pigeon, C[olumba] Coronata, purchased by 

 a Mr. Lincoln for 35s., is stated in a MS. note to Professor Newton's 

 copy to have been the "property of late Princess Charlotte." 



Lot 40. A magnificent undescribed species of Pigeon, from 

 the north coast of New Holland, "in Flinders' Voyage" (.MS. 

 note in Professor Newton's copy). This was bought by Baron 

 Laugier for £4 14s. 6df. 



Lot 70. Buff-breasted Partridge, Latham's MS. [" and of his 

 book," MS. note]. Bought by Professor Temminck for 20*. 



