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Grays, and in 1853 he sent a large collection of birds from Nepal and 

 Tibet to the E. I. Company's Museum, but, in 1859, he appears to have 

 once more determined to send his collections to the British Museum. 



When the India Museum was broken up in L881 and its zoological 

 contents were merged in the British Museum, the whole of the 

 Hodgsonian series was once more united under one roof, and great praise 

 is due to Mr. P. Moore tor having preserved the original labels on those 

 specimens which had been under his charge. Tun Catalogues of the 

 Hodgson collection were published by the Trustees, one in I846,anda 

 second in 1863. 



Besides the article in the "Dictionary of National Biography," a life 

 of Hodgson has been written by Sir William Hunter. 



Of. also ' Ibis,' 1804, pp. 580, 581. 



Holboell (Governor). 

 See also Stevens, S. 



5 birds and 31 eggs from Greeuland. Purchased. [50. 11. 9, 23 58.] . 



Holboell was the Danish Governor of South Greenland, and took 

 interest in natural history. lie discovered the intermediate race 

 between the typical Gyr-Falcon of Greenland and that of Iceland, and 

 named it Falco arcticus. As this name was preoccupied, I named the 

 bird Hierofalco holboelli in his honour. The large Red-poll (C<Mnribina 

 holboelli), from Scandinavia and Siberia, is also named after him. The 

 latter species has occurred occasionally in England. 



Holden (W. L.). 



7 birds from Paraguay. Presented. [190-1. 11. 30, 1-7.] 



Holland (Arthur H.). 



789 birds and eggs from Argentina. Purchased. [97. 11. 14, 1-22 I ; 

 98. 3. 25, 1-565.] 



Mr. Holland is an energetic young naturalist who has devoted much 

 attention to the ornithology of the Argentine Republic, on which subject 

 he has published some interesting papers (Ibis, 1890, pp. 124-428; 

 1891, pp. 16-20; 1892, pp. 193-214; 1893, pp. 467-469; 1895, pp. 213- 

 217 ; 1896, pp. 315-318). 



His collection of eggs, 565 in number, has proved to be of the utmost 

 value to the Museum, as can be seen in the published volumes of the 

 "Catalogue of Eggs." Among the birds was the type of HapdU 

 hoUandi, Sclater, Ibis, 1896, p. 317. 



Hoist (P. A.). 



44 birds from Central Asia, of which 7 were new to the collection. 

 Purchased. [83. 4. 3, 1-37 ; 83. 5. 23, 1-7.] 



Duplicates from the Severtzoff and Russow collections. Also I 

 interesting species from the Caucasus. 



9 birds from Sweden. Purchased. [84. 7. 29, L-9.] 



50 birds from Russia, Siberia, Turkestan, and other parte ol Central 

 Asia, with 3 species new to the collection. [84. 9. 25. L-20; 86. 3. 31, 

 1-30.] 



Hoist was a young Swedish collector who settled in England for a time 

 as an agent, and from whom the Museum purchased several inten 

 specimens. He afterwards travelled in the Kast for Henry Beeboho 

 visited the Volcano Islands, the Liu Km Mauds, and the Bonin group, 

 as well as Formosa. Bere he discovered a beautiful new Til oUH) 



named after him bv Seebohm (Ibis, 1995, pL \ i.). 



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