308 Zoology. 



22 birds from British New Guinea. [1905. 7. 25, 1-22.] 

 Capt. Barton, who is the Governor of British New Guinea, has 

 interested himself in the natural history of the colony, and presented 

 to the Museum a valuable collection of birds, including the peculiar 

 Torrent-duck (Salvadorina waigiuensis) and the rare Parotia helense, 

 a Bird of Paradise not previously represented in the collection. 



Bates (G. L.). 



32 birds from French Congo. 1900. 2. 24, 1-32.] 

 31 „ „ the Como River, Gaboon. [1901.4.24,1-31.] 

 12 „ „ „ Benito River. [1901. 7. 6, 1-12.] 

 908 „ „ „ Camaroons. [1901. 10. 29, 1-46; 1902. 5. 15, 

 1-30; 1902. 7. 15, 1-100; 1902. 12.5,1-101; 1903.2.16,1-25; 1903. 

 7. 16, 1-100; 1903. 10. 23, 1-177; 1904. 7. 18, 1-180; 1905. 1. 24, 

 1-265 ; 1905. 7. 30, 1-61.] 



The importance of the collections made by Mr. Bates cannot be over- 

 estimated. The first series of birds from the Como River in Gaboon was 

 interesting enough, but the very complete collections which he has sent 

 to the Museum from the Benito River, the neighbourhood of Efulen, and 

 the River Ja, have proved of the greatest value to science. I entirely 

 agree with my friend Mr. Oscar Neumann, who has gone over these 

 collections with me, and whose experience in African zoology is derived 

 from personal travel in many parts of Equatorial Africa, that in Camaroons 

 are represented at least three zoo-geographical areas, of which the most 

 northern shows an affinity to the Avifauna of Nigeria and the Gold Coast. 

 The mountainous central region exhibits relations to the equatorial chain 

 included in my Camaroonian sub-region, whilst the more southern districts 

 possess a fauna almost identical with that of Gaboon and the Congo district. 

 It is in the latter province of the Camaroons that Mr. Bates has worked. 

 He has discovered several remarkable new species (Dryotriorchis latest, 

 Accipiter hatesi, Melittophagus batesi, Callene cyornithopsis, etc.), and the 

 interesting series of birds which he has sent to the Museum will always 

 be a record of sound work performed by this industrious naturalist. 



Bates (H. W.). 



See Stevens, S. 



The great traveller, whose " Naturalist on the River Amazon " has 

 become an English classic. His collections from Ega and the Rio Javarri 

 (a river which had never been previously explored) were described by 

 Dr. Sclater (P.Z.S., 1857, pp. 261-268). Eubucco aurantiicollis was 

 described as new. 



Cf. Diet. Nat. Biogr., Suppl. i., p. 141. 



Battye. 



See Trevoe-Battye. 



Bayne (W. M.). 



A specimen of Anas cristata from Argentina. Presented. [1904. 5 

 5,1.] 



Beavan (Capt. R. C). 



An excellent naturalist, who collected in the sixties in India, and did 

 made good work. He was a friend of Dr. Jerdon, and also of the Marquess 

 of Tweeddale, in whose Museum most of Beavan's collections are to be 

 found. A good notice of his career is given in the " Ibis " for 1870 (p. 301). 



