298 Zoology. 



Kiver, making large collections of birds. He also obtained a con- 

 siderable number of specimens during bis visits to Cape Town and in 

 tbe Knysna district. Tbese collections were sent to Mr. Stevens, tbe 

 celebrated London agent, and after bis retirement to Mr. Higgins in 

 Bloomsbury Street. Tbe late Mr. Jobn Henry Gurney, wbo was a close 

 friend of Andersson's for many years, editing and publishing tbe post- 

 humous "Birds of Damara Land" from tbe MSS. left by tbe traveller, 

 secured tbe majority of tbe Birds of Prey from tbe latter's collections for 

 tbe Norwich Museum. The Wading-birds were in the same manner 

 purchased by Mr. J. Edmund Harting, who was working out the 

 Limicolse, and possessed a fine collection of these birds, which was 

 afterwards acquired by the late Mr. Henry Seebohm. Andersson's 

 specimens of Limicolas have, therefore, passed by the bequest of that 

 gentleman into the British Museum. 



A few specimens were purchased from Andersson's agents for the 

 Museum, and by myself before I entered the service of the Trustees. 

 The latter are duly recorded in the " Catalogue " of African Passeres in 

 my collection (1871), and are now in the Museum. Before Mr. Higgins 

 retired from business, to settle in Tasmania, he came across a considerable 

 collection of birds, from Andersson's later travels, stowed away in a 

 box. These I purchased and presented to the Museum, which now 

 possesses a fairly complete series representing Andersson's indefatigable 

 labours. In his later years he became a trader, and settled at Otjimbinque, 

 being ultimately wounded in a fight between the Namaquas and Damaras, 

 having espoused the cause of the latter, with whom he lived. His knee 

 was shattered by a bullet, and be was crippled ever afterwards, finally 

 succumbing from the effects of this wound and the terrible privations he 

 had undergone during his expeditions through the deserts of South West 

 Africa. I have named some species of birds after him, since his death, 

 but he is best known to ornithologists by the wonderful Bird of Prey 

 called Andersson's Pern, Machssrhamphus anderssoni (Gurney), a night- 

 flying bat-eating Hawk, tbe representative in Africa of a genus before 

 supposed to be confined to the Indian region and the Papuan sub-region. 



Andrews (C. W.), D.Sc, Assistant in the Department of Geology, 

 British Museum. 



Dr. Andrews was sent by Sir John Murray, with the permission of the 

 Trustees, to study the natural history of Christmas Island in the Indian 

 Ocean. The results of bis stay there and a full account of the collections 

 made by him have been published by tbe Trustees in the " Monograph of 

 Christmas Island." 



[See Mureay, Sir John.] [1898. 9. 16, 1-88 ; 1898. 9. 27, 1-18 : 

 1899. 5. 1, 6-11.] 



During his geological explorations in Egypt Dr. Andrews has found 

 time to collect a few birds, sending 20 specimens from Helouan in 1902. 

 [1902. 10. 9, 1-20.] 



Andrews (H. D.). 



26 birds from Argentina. Presented. [1901. 2. 10, 1-26]. 



Annandale (Nelson) and Robinson (H. C). 



See Robinson, p. 154. 

 Ansell (H. F.). 



106 birds from Gaboon. [73. 9. 10, 1-8 ; 73. 12. 26, 1-11 ; 74. 2. 16, 

 1-28 ; 74. 2. 17, 1-11 ; 74. 2. 20, 1-24 ; 74. 9. 11, 1-13 ; 74. 10. 1, 2-12.] 



