316 Zoology, 



Anglo-Geraian Boundary Commission. See Delme-Eadcliffe^ 



Colonel. 

 Perso-Baluch Boundary Commission. See Blaxfokd, W. T. 



Boundary Commissions, North American. 



106 birds from British Columbia, collected by J. Keast Lord, Esq. 

 [60. 2. 23, 1-106.] Presented by the Foreign Office. 



Mr. Lord appears to have remained in British Columbia for some 

 time after the Commission had finished its labours, for a fine collection 

 was presented by him in 1862 and 1863 ; it consisted of more than 400 

 specimens (c/. his book, "The Naturalist in British Columbia"), aDd 

 others were presented by him to the Koyal Artillery Institution at 

 Woolwich (cf. Whitely's Catalogue, 1865). 



300 birds and 77 eggs from the 49th parallel. Presented by the 

 Foreign Office. [76. 4. 15, 1-300 ; 91. 2. 16, 1-77.] 



The late Prof. George Dawson was the naturalist on the British staft 

 of the CommissioD, and the late Prof. Elliot Coues on the American side. 

 See the Eeport by the latter (Bull. U.S. G-eol. and Geogr. Survey, vol. iv., 

 no. 3, pp. 545-662, 1878). Six species were at that time new to the- 

 Museum collection. 



Bourdillon (F.). 



201 specimens from Travancore. Purchased. [80. 8. 19, 1-201.] 

 Mr. Bourdillon's first collection made in the then little known province 

 of Travancore was described by Mr. Hume in " Stray Feathers " (vii., 

 pp. 33-9, 172, 524; ix., pp. 299, 300). His second collection was 

 purchased by the Museum, and so the whole results of his ornithological 

 work have passed into the National collection. 



Bourgeau (M.). 



A collection of 25 eggs from North America. Presented. [60. 2. 6,. 

 1-25.] 



Bouvier (A.). 



11 specimens from the Cape Yerde Islands. Presented. [74. 1. 16, 

 1-11.] 



18 specimens of Accipitres from Gaboon, Senegal, etc. Purchased. 

 [74. 1. 12, 1-18.] 



34 specimens from Gaboon and Senegal. Presented. [74. 2. 11, 

 1-34.] 



158 specimens from Gaboon, the Congo, and Kessang in the Malay 

 Peninsula. Purchased. [75. 0. 14, 1-76 ; 78. 2. 23, 1-82.] 



6 types and 22 species new to the Museum were included in these 

 collections. 



Bouvier was naturalist to the ill-fated French expedition to Mexico. 

 After visiting the Cape Verde Islands, and making good collections, he 

 settled down in Paris as a natural history agent, and when I first visited 

 him at his house in the Quai des Grands Augustins, in 1876, he had quite 

 a large collection of birds. The idea of founding the Zoological Society of 

 France arose with Bouvier, and the meetings were at first held at his 

 flat. He promoted the expeditions of Marche to Senegambia, and those 

 of the Marquis de Compiegne and Marche to Gaboon, from which country 

 he received several fine specimens of Gorillas, Kooloo-Kambas, and 

 Chimpanzees, all of which I saw mounted in his house, before they passed 

 into the possession of the Museum of Science and Art in Dublin. 



He also received the early collections of Dr. Lucan and Louis Petit 



