r>iiiis. 



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168 birds from various localities. Purchased. [68. L 27, 11! 

 6. 4, 1-102 (Humming Birds); 69. 6. 9, l-2f> (Samoan birds).] 



In these purchases the Museum acquired from Mr. Gould * 

 valuable types of species which he was then figuring in his "Supplement " 

 to the "Birds of Australia," such as Mai urns hypoleucui, Qerygoru 

 personata, CycHopsittacus coxeni, Qeoprittacus ocddentaHst&nd < 'acomanlu 

 eastam iw ntris. 



L50 specimens, mostly Humming Birds. Purchased. [72. 5. 28, 

 28-77.] 



The type of Otidiphaps nohilis is included in this pun i. 



'_' specimens of the Gyr- Falcon (lIi<rof<il<-<> <iyrfnlr,,) from Lapland 

 and West Finmark. Presented. [72.11-8,1-2.] 



These were two of Wolley's specimens lent for the purpose of 

 illustration in the "Birds of Great Britain." (Cf. Newton, Ootheca 

 Wolleyana, p. 94.) 



20 specimens of Accipitres. Purchased. [72. 11. 8, 3-22]. 



Some of these are the originals of the plates in the "Birds of Great 

 Britain." 



97 Accipitres from various localities. Presented. [73. I 

 1-97]. 



Ineluding the type of Perms celebensis. 



18 birds from Australia. Purchased. [75. 11. 8, 1-18]. 



•1 types of species, Strepera melanoptera, Uracticus dm > < us, ( '. argi 

 and ft crissalis. 



100 specimens, principally from Europe and various parte of 

 Purchased. [76. 1. 7, 1-100]. 



6315 specimens of birds. Purchased. [81. 5. 1, 1-6315]. 



This was Gould's private collection of birds, ami was purchased by 

 the Trustees after his death. It contained a large number of interesting 

 species, 22 of which were new to the collection, as well as 59 types. 



1155 eggs. Purchased. [84. 10. 1, 1-268; si. ll. 20, 269-579; 

 B5. 1. 8, 580-1264; 85. 3. 1, 1265-1687; 85. 7. 21, 1688-1736]. 



This collection of eggs was purchased at the same date as the bird-skins, 

 hut was not registered until some time after, [t contained a number <-i" 

 Australian eggs which were new to the collection. 



93 Humming Birds, with 8 types. Purchased. [88. 7. 25, 1 

 90. 10. 14, 1-34]. 



This was the commencement of the registration of the Gould Collection 

 of Humming Birds, which was never completed. 



For Gould's biography, reference may he made to the memoir published 

 • in my "Analytical Index to the Works of the late John Gou 

 1893, and to the "Dictionary of National Biography" (vol. xxii., p. 287 

 Both these works give a full account of his labours, and especially of his 

 epoch-making journey to the Antipodes. His collection of Australian 

 birds "comprised examples of both scxrs of nearly every known b] 

 1800 specimens in all, in various Btages of plum ■. i i carefully 

 labelled with the scientific name and the name of the plai tilled." 



The expedition to Australia cosi Gould £2000, and he offered th< 

 with its numbers of priceless types, to the Truste Bof the Britw M 

 of that day, for £1000. The offer was declined, and Gould, in a tit of 

 chagrin, allowed Dr. Thomas Wilson of Philadelphia to buy, the whole 

 on for £1000; it has since been one of tl 



my of Natural Science in that town. (Cf. Gassin'i on the 



Ornithological Collection, Proc. Acad, Philad., L849, pp. 2:.'. 260; fl 

 Btone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1899, pp. 5 63.) 



