388 Zoology. 



Home (Sir James Everard), B.N. 



59 birds from New Zealand and Tongatabu. Presented. [46. 12. 4, 

 59.] 



A son of the well-known Sir Everard Home. 



Cf Diet. Nat. Biogr., xxvii., pp. 227, 228. 



Hooker (Sir Joseph). 



17 nests from various localities. Presented. [66. 11. 17, 1-17.] 

 Sir Joseph Hooker was naturalist to the Antarctic Expedition, surgeon 

 to the Erebus during the celebrated voyage of Sir James Ross in 1839-43, 

 assisted by Dr. McCormick and Dr. Lyall. The collections made by Sir 

 Joseph at the various islands visited were very complete (cf. my paper on 

 the Birds of Kerguelen Island in the 168th volume (extra vol.) of the 

 "Philosophical Transactions"). 



Cf also " Who's Who," 1904, p. 751. 



Hopkinson (Dr. E.). 



25 skeletons of birds from the Gambia. Presented. [1904. 4. 28, 

 1-13; 1904.6.26,1-12.] 



Horn (W. A.). 



19 birds from Central Australia, including a specimen of the rare 

 Queen Alexandra's Parrakeet (Spathopterus alexandrae), new to the 

 collection. Presented. [95. 11. 18, 1 ; 98. 5. 15, 1-18.] 



In 1894 Mr. Horn promoted the celebrated " Horn Scientific Exploring 

 Expedition" to Central Australia (see the "Journal," etc., published by 

 the Government of South Australia, as a Blue Book, in 1896). The birds 

 obtained on the expedition were described by Mr. A. J. North (Rep. Horn 

 Exped. Centr. Austr., Part II., Zoology, Aves, pp. 53-111, pis. v.-vii.). 



Horsbrugh (Charles B.). 



26 nests from the Sundal Valley, Norway. Presented. [99. 8. 31, 

 1-26.] 



Mr. Horsbrugh accompanied me during one of my excursions to 

 Norway, when we made a careful study of the nesting habits of the 

 Brambling (Fringilla montifringilld) and the Chaffinch (F. csslebs), and 

 collected a number of nests. 



The nest in situ, with the parent birds and four nestlings, of the 

 Tawny Owl (Syrnium aluco) from Martock, Somersetshire. Presented. 

 [1901. 5. 2, 1-6.] Exhibited in the Bird Gallery. 



Horsfield (Br. Thomas). 



3 specimens of Indian birds. Presented. [47. 9. 17, 1-3.] 

 Horsfield served under Sir Stamford Raffles in Java, and was well 

 known for his work on the Zoology of the island (cf. his paper in the 

 Linnean Transactions, xiii., pp. 133-200, 1820 — " Sytematic Arrangement 

 and Description of Birds from the Island of Java " ; also " Zoological 

 Researches in Java," 4to, 1824), and in conjunction with Vigors he wrote 

 a valuable memoir on the " Australian Birds in the collection of the Linnean 

 Society " (Trans. Linn. Soc, xv., pp. 170-331, 1825-26). Many new 

 species were described, the types of which were afterwards given to the 

 British Museum. He was appointed, in 1820, Keeper of the Museum 

 of the Hon. E. I. Co., a post he retained till his death in 1859. He wrote 

 several catalogues of the contents of the Museum, but, in the case of the 

 Birds and Lepidoptera, the work was chiefly done by his assistant, Mr. 

 Frederic Moore. 



Cf. Diet. Nat. Biogr., xxvii., pp. 379-380. 



