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a leg, and the limb had been replaced by a wire prop. In other inel incea 



the wings had been removed and stuck on again with glue. Such were 

 the methods of the Museum taxidermy fifty years ago. 



Baker (Sir Samuel). 



•_T> specimens from Egypt and the White Nile. Presented. [71. 6. 5, 

 5-29.] 



Balfour (I. Batlby). 



66 specimens from Sokotra. Presented by the British Association. 

 [81. 3. 21, 1-66.] 



Prof. Bayley Balfour, under the auspices of the British Association, 

 made a scientific expedition to the island of Sokotra, and obtained a very 

 interesting series of birds, as the island had not before been visited by a 

 naturalist. Prof. Balfour's work was largely botanical, and his bird- 

 skins were obtained during his journeys in search of plants. The 

 ornithological collection was described by Dr. Sclater and Dr. Hartlaub 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1881, pp. 165-175, pis. xv.-xvii.), and seven new species 

 were described, the types of which are in the Museum, viz., Cisticola 

 i noma, Brymoeca hxsitata, Lanius uncinatus, Cinnyris half our i, Passer 

 insularis, Bhynchostruthus socotranus, Amydrus frater. 



The duplicates passed into Capt. Shelley's collection, and have come 

 with the latter into the hands of the Trustees, so that the entire series 

 obtained by Prof. Balfour is now in the National Collection. 



See also British Association; Ogilvie-Graxt, W. K. ; Forbes, 

 Dr. H. O. 



Balston (W. E.). 



5 nests from S.E. Australia. Presented. [1905. 9. 22, 1-5.] 

 374 birds from S.W. Australia, collected by G. C. Shortridge. Pre- 

 sented. [1905. 12. 26, 1-374.] 



Bannermann (D. H.). 



46 birds from the West Indies. Presented. [1905. 1. 1 1, 1-46.] 

 63 birds from Jamaica. Presented. [1905. 10. 14, 1 65.] 



Barclay (G.). 



74 birds from Guayaquil. Presented. [41. 2. 4, -141-513,516.] 

 Mr. Barclay was botanical collector on board H.M.S. Sulphur. [See 



Hist. Coll., i., Botany, p. 132.] 



Baring (Eon. Cecil) and Ogilvie-Grant (W. 11.). 



247 specimens of birds, nests and eggs from Madeira, the De> 

 and the Great Salvage Islands. Presented. [95. 7. 1, 1-247.] 



Cf. Grant, "Ibis," 1896, pp. 41-55. 



Barnard (Charles A.). 



48 eggs from N. Australia. Purchased. [1900. 7. 3, 1-48.] 



27 nests from British New Guinea and N. Australia. Purchased 



[1900. 8. 14, 1-13 ; 1900. 8. 16, 1-14.] 



Barnes (Lieut. H. E.). 



10 specimens from Aden. Presented. [92. L0. 20. 1-10.] 

 Lieut. Barnes was a good soldier, who rose from the ranks. He serve 1 

 in Afghanistan, and wrote some papers for Mr. Allan Hume's journal, 

 "Stray Feathers," the principal ones being " Notes on the nidification of 

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