310 Zoology. 



Mr. Berezowsky took part in the Potanin expedition to Gan-su, and 

 is an excellent collector. No less than 17 of the species obtained from 

 him were new to the Museum. (Cf Bianchi and Berezowski, Aves, Exped. 

 Potan. Gan-su, 1884-1887 : 1891.) 



Berlin Museum. 



18 birds from Equatorial Africa. Received in exchange. [91. 6. 25, 

 1—181 



2 Francolins (Pternistes boehmi) from German East Africa. [1901. 

 3. 22, 1-2.] 



Betton (C Stewart). 



28 birds from British East Africa. Presented. [97. 12. 9, 1-18 ; 

 1901. 4. 17, 1-10.] 



Biddulph (Colonel John). 



The type-specimens of Fodoces biddulphi and Suya obscura. Pur- 

 chased. [97. 6. 5, 1-2.] 



448 birds from Gilgit. Purchased. [81.4. 29, 1-8; 81. 12. 29,1-146 ; 



82. 4. 1, 1-294.] 



3194 birds from Gilgit, Kashmir, Turkestan and other localities. 

 Presented. [81. 12. 30, 1-154 ; 97. 12. 10, 1-3040.] 



Colonel John Biddulph served during the Indian Mutiny under Lord 

 Clyde, and was afterwards Aide-de-camp to Lord Northbrook, when the 

 latter was Governor-General of India. He accompanied Sir Douglas 

 Forsyth's mission to Yarkand, when the winter was passed in that 

 country, Colonel Biddulph proceeding to Maralbashi, where he discovered 

 a new species of Desert-Chough (Podoces Uddulphi). He also crossed the 

 two Pamirs and visited Wakban. In 1877 he was posted at Gilgit, and 

 here he did splendid work in a practically unknown country, being also 

 the first European to penetrate to Hunza and Chitral. His Central Asian 

 collections have been described by me in the Report on the " Scientific 

 Results of the Second Yarkand Mission." Memoirs on the birds of Gilgit 

 were published by Colonel Biddulph himself in the " Ibis " for 1881 

 (pp. 35-102), and 1882 (pp. 266-290). He also interested himself in the 

 family of Fringillidse and made a fine collection of these birds, which 

 he gave to the Museum in 1897 with the rest of his ornithological 

 treasures. 



Bingham (Colonel C. T.). 



133 birds and esgs from Tenasserim. Presented. [83. 4. 5, 1-30 ; 



83. 8. 20, 1-30 ; 83. 12. 27, 1-35 ; 84. 5. 23, 1-38.] 



When stationed with his regiment in the N.W. Provinces of India, 

 this indefatigable naturalist made a fine collection of birds from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Delhi. His specimens, collected and labelled in the most 

 careful manner, formed part of the Hume Collection, and the eggs of birds 

 from the Delhi district are described and enumerated in Hume's " Nests 

 and Eggs of Indian Birds," and in Oates' " Catalogue of the Birds' Eggs 

 in the British Museum." Colonel Bingham's most important work 

 was done when, as an officer in the Forest Department of the Indian 

 Empire, he was in charge of the Thoungyin Valley in Tenasserim (cf. 

 " Stray Feathers," ix., pp. 138-198). Papers on the birds of the latter 

 province and Burma have appeared in Mr. Allan Hume's journal 

 "Strav Feathers" (v., pp. 79-86; vii., pp. 25-33; viii., pp. 190-197, 

 459-463 ; ix., pp. 471-475). 



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